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WebDU 2008 card game

One of the highlights of this years conference was the great card game created by Kai. It basically required you to collect cards during the conference and put them together in a certain combination in order to achieve the highest score. In my desperate attempt to win I decided to build a calculator that would enable be to calculate the highest score. Unfortunately, I was about 30minutes away from getting it into a functional state before the deadline :(

As it turns out the rules i used to calculate the score must have been slightly different from what Kai had used, so the scores didn't add up exactly the same. On the up side, it think it would still give you the correct combination of cards to get the highest score. Congratulations to Zoe for the big win !!! The cards selected by default are actually the wons she used to win.

The interface is still a bit rough, so be kind. :) The drag'n'drop handler is working properly, so you have to click an item again to re-calculate the score after you drop it from the selected list to the discarded list.

To have a play with it click here.

To download the source click here.

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Jason - I am pretty sure that the score that your card counter generates for my hand is the same points as the official score that I got at WebDU so it looks like your logic is spot on
# Posted By wayne | 6/26/08 7:12 PM
Very nice work Jason. Was a pretty cool inclusion to this year.
# Posted By Bruce | 6/26/08 8:32 PM
Cheers guys :) It's just a shame I didn't have it finished in time. :( Ahh well .. I already have a copy of CF server :p
# Posted By Jason | 6/28/08 4:17 PM