Pazaak is a game similar to blackjack that was originally a mini-game for the Star Wars: KOTOR series of videogames.
It is played 1v1, with players taking turns drawing cards ranging from 1 to 10, trying to get the closest to 20 without going over. Each turn, a player may play a modifier card (+2, -4, ...) from his hand to alter the total. A game is played as best-of-5 (3 winning), and the hand cards are dealt only once at the start of the match.
There are various apps available, but there are no official physical versions of pazaak cards. I created image files depicting the card fronts and backs, faithful to the KOTOR look & feel, which you can use as resources. These are available in the Releases section.
I am not affiliated to BioWare / LucasArts in any way and am only distributing these in an attempt to spread the pazaak love. If this represents a legal issue I will remove them.
You will find a CLI game engine that can run games and enforce rules.
You can plug bot agents, or possibly human interfaces (untested).
This is useful to simulate many games in a monte-carlo fashion, to analyze the value of modifier cards (+2, -4, +-3, ...). It may also be used as a basis to develop bot players. A naive but functional implementation is provided in testagent/.
To run:
$ cd pazaakcli
$ go build
$ cd testagent
$ go build
$ cd ..
# stdin line1 = side deck for player 1
# stdin line2 = side deck for player 2
$ ./pazaakcli -player ./testagent/testagent -player ./testagent/testagent <<EOF
auto
auto
EOFThe conclusions drawn from analysis conducted using the command-line engine will be provided in the form of a report file.
See side_deck_card_rank.txt for a rough early analysis of side deck card value. More to come.