I was curious as to how many turns a game of war typically takes so I built something to simulate many, many iterations of the game
The program uses the cards crate for the playing card simulation. This simulation plays with the following rules:
- When a player runs out of cards, they lose
- When a "war" occurs, each player lays 3 cards face down then one more card to challenge the other player
- If a player runs out of cards during a war, they lose
- Whoever wins the turn gets all the cards that have been played.
cargo run --release (release mode definitely makes a big difference)
Typical output from the program:
Left Wins: 253972 (50.7944%), Right Wins: 246028 (49.2056%)
Average # of Turns: 184.00488