Your goal is to implement command line program to play the game of Shiritori against an "AI" player.
From Wikipedia's Shiritori entry.
Shiritori (しりとり) is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word.
- Two or more people take turns to play.
- Only nouns are permitted.
- A player who plays a word ending in the mora N (ん) loses the game, as no Japanese word begins with that character.
- Words may not be repeated.
- Phrases connected by no (の) are permitted, but only in those cases where the phrase is sufficiently fossilized to be considered a "word".[2]
Example: sakura (さくら) → rajio (ラジオ) → onigiri (おにぎり) → risu (りす) → sumou (すもう) → udon (うどん)
The player who used the word udon lost this game.
The file ./bin/shiritori.rb contains the basics of an implementation to get you started. It provides you an example of reading a word in katakana or hiragana from the console, checking that word against a list of common Japanese nouns, and outputting a random reply. However, it doesn't actually implement the game rules.
You may want to use automated testing when developing your implementation. There's an example of how you can do this in test/shiritori_test.rb (run with ruby test/shiritori_test.rb). This test assumes you have minitest installed. Install it with
gem install minitest
or
gem install bundler
bundle install
data/word_data.txt contains a list of Japanese nouns. This list was generated via bin/generate_wordlist.rb and uses data from jmdict-simplified.