| Assistants: | Yuning Chai and Andras Bodis-Szomoru |
| Reserved Work Place: | ETZ D82.1 |
| Presence Hours: | Every Wednesday 15:15-17:00 |
| First meeting: | ETZ J91, Wednesday 29/02/2012 |
| PPS Units: | 4 |
| Code Template: | download |
| Dataset: | download |
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| No. of groups: | 4 |
| Aim: | TO WIN ! |
| Date: | To be decided |
| What to win: | Orell Fuessli coupons or bQm coupons |
| Who wins: | The one that is closest to the score of 21 |
| Scoring: | Cards 2-10: their nominal values Face cards: 10 Ace: 1 or 11 |
| Processing time limit: | 1 minute per card |
| Token coupon exchange rate: | Calculated at the end of the contest Coupons will be given to the players based on their token quantities proportions |
| Total game time: | 2 hours |
Details
- The groups are essentially operators of the card processing system, which is based on the digital camera, an computer for grabbing the images and four (equally powerful) remote stations for the groups to run their processing and decisioning codes on.
- Groups start with the stack of covered cards. Each group places a token on the table and picks up a separate card not showing it to the other groups. Note, that all the uncovered cards will remain secret to the others until the round ends. The card has do be dropped (by a judge or just a member of the same group), so that the orientation on the scanning plate is arbitrary.
- The groups have to scan the card, recognize it and relying on the accumulated score decide if they want to take additional card or not. A judge (or one of members of the group) records the time of a card processing and the number or correctly recognized cards for a given group. Wrong recognition of the card means losing the round. The time for processing one card must not exceed the assumed processing time limit. Groups exceeding this limit are out of the current round but not of the whole game. If all the groups exceed the processing time limit they all add a token to the token pile and continue with a next round.
- The round ends when all the groups cannot (because of the score above 21) or don't want (because of their decisioning algorithms) to pick up their next card. The winner is the one whose score is closest (thus also equal) to 21. He takes up all the tokens lying on the table and all the groups continue with a next round - until the total game time is reached.
- When all the groups exceed the score limit of 21 they all add a token to the token pile and continue with a next round.
- If there is more than one group with the closest-to-21 score they all add a token to the pile and play additional rounds until only one winner remains. The groups that were out don't participate in these additional rounds.
- Scores are reset before each round.
- Running out of tokens means a group is out of the whole game.