THREES (terminal)

Slide, merge, survive, in a terminal. The second version of the game beside web/, on the magmacrunch engine's terminal backend: a cabinet in the magmacrunch arcade and its own command, the same either way.

pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m threes

Keys

1 + 2 makes 3, and from there same plus same; 1 + 1 and 2 + 2 do not merge. The new tile comes in on the edge you slid away from, and lights up for a moment so you can see where it landed.

It is the browser's game

threes/rules.py is web/js/game.js plus the part of adenosine-puzzle's createGame it relies on: a move is the left slide with the board rotated round it, and only a move that changed something brings a tile and counts. tests/test_oracle.py checks it: tools/js_oracle.mjs loads the website's adenosine-puzzle.js and web/js/game.js unmodified with Math.random seeded, plays 300 games through the game's own handleMove(), and the test replays every move through the port and requires the same board, score and move count after each one, and the same answer to whether it moved at all.

The oracle needs the website, for the bundle. It finds it the way tools/link-shared.mjs does: ../shared, $WEBSITE, ../../website, ../../../web/website. CI checks the website out beside the game.

The browser's choices are copied rather than improved, because both versions share a scoreboard and a rule changed in one would make its scores mean something else:

• Three new tiles in four are 1s (75% 1, 15% 2, 10% 3), and a 1 merges only with a 2, so the board fills with 1s and a game lasts a few dozen moves. The original Threes! deals 1s and 2s about evenly.
• The score is the sum of every merge, not the original's powers of three.

Change either in web/js/game.js and here together, and the oracle will hold the two to each other.

Needs a 67x21 terminal.

Licence

PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, as the rest of this repository. See NOTICE, which also says whose the name is.