From wstomv@win.tue.nl Wed Aug 25 11:36:54 CDT 1999 Article: 267994 of sci.math Path: news.math.niu.edu!husk.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!ayres.ftech.net!news.ftech.net!newshub.bart.net!newsfeed.iae.nl!news.tue.nl!not-for-mail From: Tom Verhoeff Newsgroups: rec.games.misc,sci.math Subject: Optimal Solitaire Yahtzee Player available on WWW Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:57:27 +0200 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Message-ID: <37C3F647.43AF4B76@win.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: wsinpa16.win.tue.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) Lines: 21 Xref: news.math.niu.edu rec.games.misc:65265 sci.math:267994 An optimal solitaire Yahtzee player is available at http://wwwpa.win.tue.nl/misc/yahtzee/ You enter and submit a situation in a solitaire Yahtzee game. The server returns an optimal choice for that situation: which dice to keep, or what category to score. The precise Yahtzee rules employed and the meaning of "optimal choice" are explained on related pages. A technical report with implementation details is in the making. Enjoy, Tom -- E-MAIL: Tom.Verhoeff at acm.org | Fac. of Math. & Computing Science PHONE: +31 40 247 41 25 | Eindhoven University of Technology FAX: +31 40 245 17 33 | PO Box 513, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/ | The Netherlands