This is an implementation of the classic German board game 'Mensch ärgere dich nicht'. The game can be played with two to four players.
Here is a figure of the board:
Green starts with one piece on field 1, red on 11, blue on 21, and yellow on 31. The players take turns rolling a dice and moving pieces forward.
Pieces can't go backwards. No two pieces may use the same field.
If a player moves their piece on a field with an opponents piece, the opponends piece moves to A. This is called beating.
A player needs a six to leave an A field. The goal is to move all four pieces on the B fields.
Here is a flow chart for the application.
Player colors are assigned automatically. There is no option for changing the order in which the players take turns.
The game uses a command line interface. Here is a table of all available commands:
| syntax | where | description | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| start | Menu | start game | start |
| quit | Menu | end game | quit |
| add <name> | Settings | add a player | add Paul |
| rename <old_name> <new_name> | Settings | rename player | rename Paul Peter |
| remove <name> | Settings | remove player | remove Peter |
| show | Settings | prints players | show |
| a...h | Game | pick an option | b |
| quit | Game | go to menu | quit |
| show | Game | print all positions | show |
The program only uses Python the standard library and pytest for testing.
This is what the classes look like (roughly).
