About the Game

In Hog, two players alternate turns trying to be the first to end a turn with at least 100 total points. On each turn, the current player chooses some number of dice to roll, up to 10. That player’s score for the turn is the sum of the dice outcomes.

To spice up the game, we play with some special rules:

• Pig Out. If any of the dice outcomes is a 1, the current player’s score for the turn is 1.
• Feral Hogs. If the number of dice you roll is exactly 2 away (absolute difference) from the number of dice you rolled on the previous turn, you get 3 extra points for the turn. Treat the turn before the first turn as rolling 0 dice.

Summary

My first ever project! Demonstrates use of control statements together with higher-order functions.

Here is what I implemented:

• simulate a dice roll for each turn
• keeping track of each players’ score
• constraints/multipliers according to game rules
• commentary functions that print out remarks about the game after each turn, such as:
  22 points! That's the biggest gain yet for Player 1.
• different strategies for playing the game to optimize chances of winning