Deal or No Deal Game

[Champions_2002]

Hi I am messing about with Atari Basic and trying to make a deal of no deal game.

 

i have the contestants names in data statements, and i have got a random routine to pick the players names 11 on the left side and 11 on the right, my first problem is how do i get basic to pick the names and that name not appear again on the list. so for instance if the basic picks Luke it should not appear again till another run of the code.

 

Also how can i do this with numbers so each contestant has a number next to them but random 1 to 22.

[thank you]

the simplest shuffle algorithm i know is to iterate over the list and swap with a random location.

LIST

0 DIM X(22)

1 FOR I=1 TO 22:X(I)=I:NEXT I

2 FOR I=1 TO 22:N=INT(RND(0)*22)+1:B=X(N) (N)=X(I) (I)=B:NEXT I

3 FOR I=1 TO 22:? X(I);" ";:NEXT I

 

READY

RUN

17 20 14 22 7 15 13 12 11 16 6 10 4 3 18 9 8 19 21 2 1 5

READY

For the first question, if you only have 22 names you can do it the same way; if there are more you'll have to iterate over already chosen names and reject duplicates.

The mad faces are COLON X, hope it helps.

Edited May 29, 2019 by jaybird3rd

[jaybird3rd]

The mad faces are COLON X, hope it helps.

I placed your code inside a pair of code tags for you, like this ...

 

[code]INSERT YOUR CODE HERE[/code]

... which prevents the symbols from being interpreted as emoticons.

[Champions_2002]

Thank you for you help