JumpingBalls

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Friday, May 16th, 2008 | Programs

For more including Author's Notes download the eBook pages with this program's code listing.

Have you ever played those old fashioned wood puzzles with divots cut into a piece of wood for marbles to sit in? This is one of those games. Try to get the Xs on one side to swap places with the Os on the other. Pieces can move a space or jump over a piece. Since there’s always one and only one empty space all you need to do is decide which marble to move.

Not only is this short program a fun solitaire game to play but the way the game plays on the screen, stacking the boards on top of each other, the optimum solution (24 moves) makes a pretty pattern that looks maybe like a friendship bracelet. When you beat it you’ll see it.

Jumping balls was written by Joseph Larson, inspired by a BASIC game of the same name by Anthony Rizzolo as found in ‘More BASIC Computer Games’ edited by David H. Ahl (c) 1979.

Tags: BASIC, conversion, Joe Larson

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