🎲 Your analytical relational friendly neighbourhood Clue Bot 🎲
Assistant for the board game Clue[do] featuring a virtual sheet and a powerful deduction engine. The text-based user interface aims for maximum efficiency while providing a full overview of the game state in one single screen.
- Virtual sheet automatically records facts and clues
- Configurable card names for different game editions
- Intelligent color highlighting
- Powerful Deduction engine
- Fact based deductions
The Romeo and Juliet,HighlanderandWhat's-in-the-box?!?!?techniques provide surefire deductions based on the fact that all cards are unique, finite and the number of cards in each players' hands is known.
- Clue based deductions: The knowledge that other players have shown each other one of three possible cards after a suggestion is used.
- Chain reaction deductions
- Fuzzy-tri-state logic(:tm:): A player may either hold a card or not - or even something in between!
- Perspective views: Internal calculations based on separate game records from each player's perspective
- Fact based deductions
- Records everything
- Full scrollable game log
- Retroactive deduction
- Replay files (can act as savegames as well)
- Database powered
- Manually alter clues: A player accidentally dropped a card? This information can be used to your advantage.
- Undo a turn if mistakes were made
- Could be used as read-only interface (SQLite) to power external apps
- Clever user interface
- Text-based single screen display of clue sheet, log and input
- Full guidance through game flow
- Context-sensitive multi-state input prompt with auto-completion
- Built-in help and sanity checks
- Python 3 on any OS
python3 cluesheetbot.py
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--replay SAVEFILE Opens the given replay file
--typing Activates manual replay mode in which one character is
replayed with each key pressed
--cards CARDSFILE Uses the given cards file for custom Cluedo variants