!!NEED HELP!! - Stick Picking Game.

[crazyren]

Hey guys I'm new here i was wondering if you guys could help me out.
i need to make a game for school. its goes as.. 15 sticks arranged in 5 rows..

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and the user can pick any number of sticks from a row. and followed by the computer last person who picks the stick is considered as the loser of the game. and i should make sure that the computer wins all the time. forcing the user to lose i have seen some example with 21 sticks but for this i cant figure out a logic. if you guys could help me out i would really appreciate it. plus I'm new to c programming.

[CommonTater]

Get started on the project... get it as far along as you can.
Then if you get stuck you should post your code (in code tags please) and ask specific questions about what's giving you troubles.

We'll see what we can do...

[Mr.777]

Read loops and nested loops...

[crazyren]

part of what i did. but err it getting complicated and long! i rewrote it! but i kind of still dont have a logic to begin with!

#include<stdio.h>
int play(int, int, int);
main()
{
	int r[5], row, usr, l_total, comp;
	r[1]=1; r[2]=2; r[3]=3; r[4]=4; r[5]=5; l_total=15;
	do
	{
		l_total=l_total-usr-comp;

		if(row==1)
		{
			r[row] = play(row, usr, comp);
		}

	}
	while(l_total==0);
}
int play(int row_t, int usr_pick, int comp_pick)
{
	int total;
	total=row_t-usr_pick-comp_pick;
	return(total);
}

[Salem]

> r[1]=1; r[2]=2; r[3]=3; r[4]=4; r[5]=5;
Arrays start at 0, not 1
So your last assignment is off in the weeds somewhere.

[Mr.777]

Other than the problems metioned by Salem,
Depending upon the compiler, your program will either end up after only one execution of while loop or it will become an infinite loop...
Reason: variables usr and comp are not initialized.