Super dumb bot
According to the instructions as I understand them, my own bot's score is returned somewhere in scores(); if this is not the case, comment out the lines starting with the line if (score == sscore) and continuing to the else.
module.exports = class {
constructor(controller) {
this.controller = controller;
}
play_hand() {
if(this.controller.hand_number() == 1)
{
// Go Home Bot makes everybody else need to do this nonsense on the first turn rather than really try.
this.controller.declare(2);
return;
}
if(this.controller.hand_number() == 2)
{
// Get rid of the other not-really-competing bot.
this.controller.declare(3);
return;
}
var myscore = this.controller.np();
var sscore = myscore;
var scores = this.controller.scores();
var ctr = 0;
for (var i = 0; i < scores.length; i++) {
var score = scores[i];
if (score != 0)
if (score == sscore)
sscore = 0;
else
ctr+=1;
}
var value = (ctr < 2) ? 0
: Math.floor(myscore / ctr);
this.controller.declare(value);
}
};
````
Either I know the optimal strategy off the top of my head or I don't. I put no effort into finding out whether or not I am right. The long loop just determines how many other bots are in the game. If the specifications had been written tighter it could be replaced by var ctr = scores.length - 1;