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cligames

Board games in your terminal

  • Connect4 and Tic-tac-toe with a text-based interface.
  • Playable computer opponent, implemented using the minimax algorithm (with alpha–beta pruning).
  • Each board game can be played as human versus human, human versus computer or computer versus computer.

Setup

Install via pip

$ pip install cligames

Build from source

$ git clone https://github.com/tombch/cligames.git
$ cd cligames/
$ python -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install .

How to play

Connect4

To start a game of Connect4 against the computer, enter:

$ cligames connect4
A new game has started.
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Player X - choose a move: 

To make a move, enter the column number you wish to make a move in:

Player X - choose a move: 3   
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Player X chose move 3.
Decision time: 2.556 seconds
Player O is choosing... 
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│   │   │ O │ X │   │   │   │
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│ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │ 4 │ 5 │ 6 │
└───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘
Player O chose move 2.
Decision time: 1.437 seconds
Player X - choose a move: 

Tic-tac-toe

To start a game of Tic-tac-toe against the computer, enter:

$ cligames tictactoe
A new game has started.
┌───┬───┬───┬───┐
│ 2 │   │   │   │
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│ 1 │   │   │   │
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│ 0 │   │   │   │
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│   │ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
└───┴───┴───┴───┘
Player X - choose a move: 

To make a move, enter the (x, y) coordinates of the position you wish to make a move in:

Player X - choose a move: (1, 1)
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│ 2 │   │   │   │
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│ 1 │   │ X │   │
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│ 0 │   │   │   │
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│   │ 0 │ 1 │ 2 │
└───┴───┴───┴───┘
Player X chose move (1, 1).
Decision time: 1.567 seconds
Player O is choosing... 
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│ 1 │   │ X │   │
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│ 0 │ O │   │   │
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└───┴───┴───┴───┘
Player O chose move (0, 0).
Decision time: 0.02 seconds
Player X - choose a move: 

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