Problem 3 - Master-Mind Hints - Filename CODE
MasterMind is a game for two players. One of them, Designer, selects a
secret code. The other, Breaker, tries to break it. A code is no more
than a row of colored dots. At the beginning of a game, the players
agree upon the length N that a code must have and upon the colors that
may occur in a code.In order to break the code, Breaker makes a
number of guesses, each guess itself being a code. After each guess
Designer gives a hint, stating to what extent the guess matches his
secret code. In this problem you will be given a secret code
s1...sn and a guess g1...gn, and are to determine the hint. A hint
consists of a pair of numbers determined as follows.A match
is a pair (i,j), 1<=i<=n and 1<=j<=n, such that si = gj.
Match (i,j) is called strong when i = j, and is called weak
otherwise. Two matches (i,j) and (p,q) are called independent
when i = p if and only if j = q. A set of matches is called independent
when all of its members are pairwise independent.Designer
chooses an independent set M of matches for which the total number of
matches and the number of strong matches are both maximal. The hint
then consists of the number of strong followed by the number of weak
matches in M. Note that these numbers are uniquely determined by the
secret code and the guess. If the hint turns out to be (n,0), then the
guess is identical to the secret code.
Input
The input will consist of data for a number of games.
The input for each game begins with an integer specifying N (the length
of the code). Following these will be the secret code, represented
as N integers, which we will limit to the range 1 to 9. There will then
follow an arbitrary number of guesses, each also represented as N
integers, each in the range 1 to 9. Following the last guess in each
game will be N zeroes; these zeroes are not to be considered as a
guess.Following the data for the first game will appear data for
the second game (if any) beginning with a new value for N. The last
game in the input will be followed by a single zero (when a value for N
would normally be specified). The maximum value for N will be 1000.
Output
The output for each game should list the hints that
would be generated for each guess, in order, one hint per line. Each
hint should be represented as a pair of integers enclosed in parentheses
and separated by a comma. The entire list of hints for each game
should be prefixed by a heading indicating the game number; games are
numbered sequentially starting with 1. Separate the output for
successive games using a blank line.
Example Input
4
1 3 5 5
1 1 2 3
4 3 3 5
6 5 5 1
6 1 3 5
1 3 5 5
0 0 0 0
10
1 2 2 2 4 5 6 6 6 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1
1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5
1 2 1 3 1 5 1 6 1 9
1 2 2 5 5 5 6 6 6 7
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
Expected Output
Game 1:
(1,1)
(2,0)
(1,2)
(1,2)
(4,0)
Game 2:
(2,4)
(3,2)
(5,0)
(7,0)