I haven't played that game for a hundred years. I wonder if I could get my son interested in that.
Heh ... until you mentioned "that game" I hadn't looked closely at the cards. It turns out that I wrote a Turbo Pascal (DOS) version of the game some 30 years ago, called
TOUR.
In the first version, I hadn't figured out how to get the computer to play, so the 2 human players had to avert their eyes from the screen when it was the other person's turn.
[Lame!]
Then a coworker helped me translate the code to Turbo C and create a "persona" for the computer, named
Albert. I eventually added 4 user-selectable "personalities" for Albert, something like:
- Kill or Be Killed (give the other player a "Hazard" before playing something good for yourself)
- Live and Let Live (play the best card for yourself before giving the other player a "Hazard")
- Always Play the First Playable Card
- Always Play the Worst Card
I also created a version where two computers could be connected with a serial cable, and another version where two computers used a "shared file" on a network drive to play (somewhat) remotely.
All versions had a "Boss" key that would pop up a screen which looked like WordPerfect 4.x for DOS, and a "Help" screen that explained the rules, scoring, etc.
If anyone is interested, I can try to dig up the EXEs from my "archive".