Bug#682398: ITP: cows-and-bulls -- Words-based version of the cows and bulls game
 

Hi there,

Interesting! Not a game I've ever heard of before, but the package
description covers it thoroughly.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 05:35:08PM +0530, L. Guruprasad wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "L. Guruprasad" <lgp171188@gmail.com>

> * Package name : cows-and-bulls
> Version : 1.0
> Upstream Author : L. Guruprasad <lgp171188@gmail.com>
> * URL : https://github.com/lgp171188/Cows-and-Bulls
> * License : GPL
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : Words-based version of the cows and bulls game

> This is a words-based version of the 'Cows and bulls' guessing game. The
> user has to guess the word chosen by the game by guessing words of the
> same length. The game will reply to each guess by informing the user
> about the number of cows (alphabets in the word chosen by the game that
^^^^^^^^^
> are in the word guessed by the user in the exact same position) and bulls
> (alphabets in the word chosen by the game that are in the word guessed by
^^^^^^^^^

you mean 'letters', not 'alphabets'.

> the user in a wrong position). The user has to guess the correct word by
> improving the guesses based on the game's feedback and eventually guess
> the word chosen by the game.

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Bug#682398: ITP: cows-and-bulls -- Words-based version of the cows and bulls game
 

Hi Steve,

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> are in the word guessed by the user in the exact same position) and bulls
>> (alphabets in the word chosen by the game that are in the word guessed by
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> you mean 'letters', not 'alphabets'.

Thank you for finding out the typo. I intended to use 'letters' but
ended up using alphabets. I will use the correct word in the package
description and manpage for sure :)

Thanks & Regards,
Guruprasad


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