SINCLAIR PROGRAMS, September/October 1982
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ZX80


BEAN CUP
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SOMETIMES, when the cursor finger is worn to the knuckle and we are blinking
at 50 cycles per second, nothing pleases us like a game where thinking is not
just something between you and a high score. When the game works on a ZX-80,
we are really happy.
Bean Cup is a fine brain-game from Nigeria. You sit cross-legged with a row
of seven cups in front of you. Each cup contains four beans  except the
store-cup on the right-hand end of the row, which is empty. Your opponent
faces you with exactly the same equipment in front of him.
The display will show you two rows of numbers, representing the beans. The
bottom row is yours and the top one is operated by the suddenly-cunning ZX-80.
You move by taking all the beans from one of your cups and dropping one into
the cup on its right, one into the cup on the right of that, and so on,
anti-clockwise round all 14 cups until you finish. You cannot empty the
store-cups. The game ends when all the beans are out of circulation and the
winner is the player with the most beans in his store cup.
Input the number of the cup you wish to empty and the computer will display
the position of the beans after your move and its own response. If you have
no beans on your side to move, then enter any number from 1 to 6.
If you can beat the machine you are better than we are. Submitted by Paul
Morriss of Alford, Lincs.


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