cardgame/fire.6

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.TH FIRE 6 2022-04-07 "1.0" "Card game"
.SH NAME
fire - a fun card game
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ./fire
.br
.B ./stats
[ num_trials ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fire
simulates a game of cards between Alice and Bob. The game is played with a deck
of cards with multiple suits, and ranks defined in the file
.IR deck .
Each player gets a hand consisting of all the cards of a given suit, and one
suit is also distributed in the
.IR prize
pile. This pile is shuffled.
Each round consists of a card placed faced up from the
.IR prize
pile, after which Alice plays a card of the same rank, and Bob plays a random
card. The player with the highest card adds the rank of the
.IR prize
card to his or her score. When all cards have been played, the game is over, and
the player with the highest score wins.
.B stats
runs the game a number of times and prints some statistics.
.SH OPTIONS
None.
.SH BUGS
None known.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR shuf (1),
.BR paste (1),
.BR awk (1)