Calling Numbers In Housie Game
Ilario Grijalva
Tambola is a popular party game in India. Its also known as Bingo / Housie across the world and is a slow casino game, played by a person calling out numbers and players scoring out numbers on a ticket. Each player gets a unique ticket and a range of prizes can be given away. To name a few they are
I'm trying to create a typical Housie/Bingo Game ticket in Asp.net 2.0 (VB). But, not being succeeded. Ticket contains 3 row with 9 columns. Total 27 blocks, and it must be only 15 should be fill outta those 27. and each column contains value like 1st column should be between 1-10 and 2nd must have random values between 11-20.. It doesn't matter how many blocks filled in each column.. 1 is must, no single column should be blank, all 9 columns must be filled, some have all 3 blocks filled, some have 1 with total of 15 blocks filled in whole ticket. with random numbers..
Guys here was the typical housie ticket specification.. Please help me out generating a ticket like this. I've tried but, not being that much succeeded, I get whole column blank and validating columns.. takes extra load on system. please find me the way to make it.
This algorithm will take you exactly 9 steps + 6 steps in the loop so it's deterministic which is better for the processor utilization. And it also fills your ticket with up to three numbers per column and not less than 1 (if I understood your requirements due too poor english in the question).
This solution has been simplified by using arrays and counters. You could of course create a complete object model that would be functionally rich and would provide you all the info you need. You could for instance have a Ticket and TicketColumn classes:
The approach given to this problem goes like this;I have prepared 10 lists. Each list has with 3 unique random numbers arranged in ascending order, ranging from 10 to 20, 20 to 30, ..., 80 to 90. Next, I have assigned the first number in 5 random lists to the top row, the second number in another 5 random lists to the middle row, and the third number in another 5 random lists to the bottom row. I have done this with the intention of not repeating the numbers, ensuring that only 5 numbers are printed on each row of the ticket, each column has it's number in an ascending order form top to bottom
I have used empty strings ' ' to be printed where there are no numbers to be printed and I have used the asterisk/star ' * ' mark to tell to the player that he/she has marked that number on that ticket!
I have ensured that the numbers called don't get repeated(The main board is a list with numbers ranging from 1 to 90 and each time a number is called the sam random number is removed from the main board and while the player is given the opportunity to mark, the code ensures that the number is present in the player's ticket and the number is not present in the main board. If the player inputs a number which doesn't satisfy the above mentioned conditions, it keeps on asking until the player input a correct number
The speciality of this code is that it accepts arbitrary number of players. It initially asks you the number of players playing the game and then asks that many times the name of each individual player
When a house number is passed to Geosupport in the 12-byte WA1 for MSW or the 16-byte WA1 for COW input House Number field, Geosupport normalizes it. The house number normalization algorithm is complex, and a full description of it is beyond the scope of this document, but some aspects are discussed below. If normalization is successful, an output normalized house number is produced in two standard formats, the 12-byte or 16-byte output House Number in Display format (HND) and the 6-byte output House Number in Internal format (HNI) or the 11-byte House Number in Sort format (HNS), and both of these are returned to the application in WA1. The HND is in character form and is suitable for display, for example, on application screens, reports and mailing labels. While the HNS format contains character data, it is intended for Geosupport internal use. To conserve space, users may store this value in their files.
The HNI format contains packed decimal data, and is the format that Geosupport uses internally to perform its address-matching routines. The HNI is not documented in detail herein, and is of little direct relevance to most users. However, to conserve disk space in application files in which house numbers must be stored in some form, users can store the 6-byte HNI in their files rather than the 12-byte HND for MSW or the 11-byte HNS in their files rather than the 16-byte HND for COW, and then use any of the display functions, Functions D, DG and DN, to obtain the house number in HND format for display, as described below.
The display functions can process up to two input HNI or HNS values in a single call, using the two input HNI or HNS fields and two output HND fields in WA1. If two input HNIs or HNSs are supplied, they are processed independently of each other and are not treated as forming an address range. If only one input HNI or HNS is supplied, it may be passed in either of the input HNI or HNS fields.
The display functions can also be used to obtain street names corresponding to input street codes. (The processing of street codes by the display functions is discussed in detail in Chapter IV.6.) In a single call, the display functions can process input HNIs or HNSs without input street codes, input street codes without HNIs or HNSs or both types of input. If both HNIs or HNSs and street codes are provided as input data to a display function call, they are processed independently of each other and are not treated as forming an address. In particular, the display functions perform no address validation.
Only a small percentage of New York City addresses have house number suffixes. The following are some examples of valid New York City addresses containing house number suffixes (highlighted in bold type):
If Geosupport determines that an input house number in character form has a missing or inappropriately present dash, then whenever it is feasible, Geosupport modifies the house number to correct the error before normalizing it. (Geosupport never modifies input HNIs or HNSs.) Geosupport will make such a modification automatically (without user request), but only if the intended address is clear and unambiguous and is valid for the function being called, and a valid address could not be formed by normalizing the input house number in a different fashion. Two types of such dash-related modifications are as follows:
Whenever the house number normalizer makes an assumption about, or a dash-related modification to, an input house number, Geosupport informs the calling application by issuing a warning condition. A warning is issued, for example, when Geosupport assumes that an input dash is a range separator and then normalizes the house number by deleting the dash and digits following it, or when it assumes that a required hyphen is missing and inserts one.
When there are more than 3 digits following the dash in an input address number on a street having unhyphenated or mixed hyphenated house numbers, Geosupport treats the dash as a range separation character and issues a warning message that the address number has been altered (GRC 01 / Reason 1). When this input occurs on a street having only hyphenated house numbers, the call is rejected and Geosupport issues an error message (GRC 13 / Reason 2).
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