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Games-Cards-Pair-0.15
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/ Games::Cards::Pair

NAME

Games::Cards::Pair - Interface to the Pelmanism (Pair) Card Game.

VERSION

Version 0.15

DESCRIPTION

A single-player game of Pelmanism, played with minimum of 12 cards and maximum up to 54 cards. Depending on number of cards choosen the user, it prepares the game.

Cards picked up from the collection comprises each of the thirteen values (2,3,4, 5,6,7,8,9,10,Queen,King,Ace and Jack) in each of the four suits (Clubs,Diamonds, Hearts and Spades) plus two jokers. The Joker will not have any suit.

SYNOPSIS

Below is the working code for the Pelmanism game using the Games::Cards::Pair package. The game script play-pelmanism is supplied with the distribution and on install is available to play with.

use strict; use warnings;
use Games::Cards::Pair;

$|=1;

$SIG{'INT'} = sub { print {*STDOUT} "\n\nCaught Interrupt (^C), Aborting\n"; exit(1); };

my $game = Games::Cards::Pair->new({debug => 1});

my ($count);
do {
    print {*STDOUT} "How many cards do you want to play with? (min:12, max:54): ";
    $count = <STDIN>;
    chomp($count);
} until ($game->is_valid_card_count($count));

$game->cards($count);

my ($response);
do {
    $game->init;
    print {*STDOUT} $game->get_board;
    print {*STDOUT} "You have 30 seconds to memorise the card positions.\n";
    sleep 30;
    $game->screen->clear;

    do {
        my ($cards);
        print {*STDOUT} $game->as_string(1);
        do {
            print {*STDOUT} "Pick pair of cards: ";
            $cards = <STDIN>;
            chomp($cards);
        } until ($cards =~ /^\d+\,\d+$/);

        $game->play($cards);

    } until ($game->is_over);

    print "\n\nTotal moves [" . $game->count . "]\n";

    do {
        print {*STDOUT} "Do you wish to continue (Y/N)? ";
        $response = <STDIN>;
        chomp($response);
    } until (defined $response && ($response =~ /^[Y|N]$/i));

} until ($response =~ /^N$/i);

print {*STDOUT} "Thank you.\n";

Once it is installed, it can be played on a terminal/command window as below:

$ play-pelmanism

METHODS

play($index)

Accepts comma separated card indices and play the game.

is_over()

Returns 1 or 0 depending if the deck is empty or not.

get_board()

Return game board with hidden card, showing only the card index.

is_valid_card_count($count)

Valid card count is any number between 12 and 54 (both inclusive). Also it should be a multiple of 4.

init()

Shuffles the pack and then pick required number of cards.

get_matched_pairs()

Returns all the matching pair, if any found, from the bank.

as_string()

Returns deck arranged as 4 in a row blocks. This is overloaded as string context.

AUTHOR

Mohammad S Anwar, <mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com>

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/manwar/Games-Cards-Pair

BUGS

Please report any bugs / feature requests to bug-games-cards-pair at rt.cpan.org or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Games-Cards-Pair. I will be notified and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Games::Cards::Pair

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2016 Mohammad S Anwar.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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