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    The Magic Gopher - New beginners programming challenge

    This is a programming challenge based around a maths 'mindreading' puzzle game.

    you can play it here to see what the puzzle involves.

    Your challenge is to replicate the game in a console project.

    You must accept the player input for each calculation step and obviously ouput messages telling the player what calc they need to do next.
    A chart of characters must be displayed directing the player to remember their symbol
    A results screen must then be shown displaying the players chosen character - which of course will amaze them...
    The control between each step should be of the type 'press any key to continue' - or assign a particular key if you wish.

    Finally the program should allow the user to play again.

    Appending to the console will not be accepted as a clean enough output so you must use suitable clearscreen calls where required.

    I am up for seeing comical user instructions and output messages by the way.

    windows console only sorry - +no text libraries etc
    c or c++

    Winner is first through with a robust working implementation
    Contest period until 1st October - if no winners received before then i will assess any other entries for the best one.
    Last edited by rogster001; 09-09-2012 at 04:54 AM.
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