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engines - tbbt

This example implements the rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock game played in the "The Big Bang Theory" sitcom using one threaded engine per player. See:

http://www.samkass.com/theories/RPSSL.html

Currently this example requires ECLiPSe, SWI-Prolog, or XVM. It should run also on XSB and YAP if and when these systems fix the bugs in their multi-threading support.

When using XVM as the backend, this example must be run from the top-level interpreter.

Print Logtalk, Prolog backend, and kernel versions (if running as a notebook):

%versions

Load the example:

logtalk_load(tbbt(loader)).

Explain the game of rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock:

game::explain.

Play a game:

game::play.