Question

Develop a game using Matlab. Work in groups of two.

A Game of Sticks

The rules are as follows:

Players: 2

Sticks: 20

Players take turns sequentially to pick 1~3 sticks.

Loser picks up the last stick!

This project has the following deliverables:

(1) Your project implements a 2-player version of the game of sticks in the command

window.

Required display in command window:

‘Welcome to the game!’ ‘Please enter player 1 name:’ ‘Please enter player 1 name:’

‘Player 1

Required inputs in command window:

beginning: players’ names; in each step: number of sticks to remove

Greetings to the winner.

(2) You will have a bar-graph to show (and track) how many sticks there are after each

step.

(3) Your will submit a report. It will include the coding, command window records of

one trial of you and your teammate playing the game including the printouts and

inputs, bar-graph of game status records.

PLEASE do in Matlab. Thank you so much :)

Answer 1

% Matlab script to simulate the game of sticks between 2 players and plot
% the bar graph to track the sticks after each step

sticks_left = 20; % initialize the number of sticks at the stack of the game
step = 1; % initialize the step number
% display the header
fprintf('Welcome to the game!\n');
% input of player names
player1 = input('Please enter player 1 name: ','s');
player2 = input('Please enter player 2 name: ','s');
loser = 0; % variable to track the loser
% loop that continues till number of sticks > 0
while sticks_left(step) > 0
% display the step number and number of sticks left
fprintf('Step %d : \n',step);
% input of sticks picked by player 1
fprintf('Sticks left : %d\n',sticks_left(step));
fprintf('%s , enter the sticks to pick : ', player1);
player1_sticks = input('');
% validate player1 input and re-prompt until valid
while(player1_sticks < 1 || player1_sticks > 3 || player1_sticks > sticks_left(step))
fprintf('Invalid number of sticks picked .\n%s , enter the sticks to pick : ', player1);
player1_sticks = input('');
end
  
% update the sticks left
sticks_left(step) = sticks_left(step) - player1_sticks;
% if player1 has picked the last stick, set loser to player 1 and exit
% the loop
if(sticks_left(step) == 0)
loser = 1;
break;
end
  
fprintf('Sticks left : %d\n',sticks_left(step));
% input of sticks picked by player 2
fprintf('%s , enter the sticks to pick : ', player2);
player2_sticks = input('');
% validate player2 input and re-prompt until valid
while(player2_sticks < 1 || player2_sticks > 3 || player2_sticks > sticks_left(step))
fprintf('Invalid number of sticks picked .\n%s , enter the sticks to pick : ', player2);
player2_sticks = input('');
end
% update the sticks left
sticks_left(step) = sticks_left(step) - player2_sticks;
% if player2 has picked the last stick, set loser to player 1 and exit
% the loop
if(sticks_left(step) == 0)
loser = 2;
break;
end
% copy the sticks left for the next step
sticks_left(step+1) = sticks_left(step);
step = step + 1; % increment number of steps
  
end
% display the winner
if loser == 1
fprintf('Congratulations %s !! You won the game\n',player2);
else
fprintf('Congratulations %s !! You won the game\n',player1);
end
% display the bar graph
bar(sticks_left);
xlabel('Step');
ylabel('Sticks left');
title('Sticks left after each step');
%end of script

Output: