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Ravi (Ravi)
Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 2:02 pm:   

The game I am working has identical winning board position for either player, but the player who moved last (to create the winning board position) is the winner. How do I include this in the winning-condition?
Jeff Mallett (Jeffm)
Posted on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 - 3:11 pm:   

That's a good question. The answer is that if a goal is achieved by a neutral player (a player not in the turn order), then the winner will be the one who last moved. This is what is done in Line-Hip, where the neutral player is called "Player".
Karl Scherer (Karl)
Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 8:27 am:   

If you don't want to add a neutral player
or if making him achieve the goal is too
complicated, here is another simple solution for you:

each player changes the content of a dummy position "zturn", e.g.:

(change-type marker1 zturn)

is processed as part of Player1's move, and

(change-type marker2 zturn)

is processed as part of Player2's move.

(To find out wehoise turn it is, you check whose turn it is via a zone which has different positions for each player, see Zillions
help text)

Cheers, Karl

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