This app is intended for educational and entertainment purposes, and the Mounty Hall App simulates a famous game-show puzzle with a very similar name. As a user, you are invited to provide a username and play the game. Once you start the game, your mounty host will lead you through the process of playing the game. Your goal is to optimize your chances of picking the door with a car behind it, and not one of the doors with a small Canadian woodland critter.
To play the game, you first pick one of three doors. The host opens one of the other two doors, revealing that it was a losing door. Do you stay with your original pick or switch doors? Watch this video to see how the game works.
After each round of the game, you are given the chance to view your user stats and game results. You can also view results and stats for all users, where users are ranked by their overall winning game percentages.
Can you see a pattern in the results as you play more games? What are your odds if you stay vs. switch? Play to find out!
(You can also read my blog on more fine-tuned aspects I learned in writing this code.)
To install the program, open your terminal and run the following command:
git clone git@github.com:DavidRMorphew/mounty-hall-app-frontend.git
Also be sure to fork and clone the Mounty-Hall-App-Api repo in order to run the app.
All of the user and game data is persisted using this Rails API, and you can find the instructions to install and run the API in this Readme.
First install and start the rails API server. (Again, follow the instructions here.) After you have the server running, open the frontend application directory:
cd mounty-hall-app-frontend
Run:
bundle install
Then:
open index.html
Now you can play the game in your browser.
Pull requests are welcome. If you want to make major changes, please open an issue first to discuss the proposed change.
Please feel free to add and update tests where appropriate.
This project is designed with collaboration in mind, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
The following are areas open to future development:
- provide a drop-down selection of usernames
- make the mounty host more interactive
Further suggestions are welcome.
The app is open source under the terms of the MIT License.