Six of VIII game engine

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Game: Six of VIII
Designer: Carol LaGrow
BoardGameGeek: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/394691/the-six-of-viii

• Deck makeup
• Determine card winner given a trick and current game state
  • King, trump
  • Zeroes
• Game state model (initial)
  • Trump tracker
  • Track if Church of England was used this hand
• Legal moves from current state
  • King card may be played any time a player can play the
    current trump color: It is the lead card for the trick, trump was led, or a player is out of the led suit
  • Zero cards (page 10 in the rulebook)
  • Church of England - can only playable on or after Red suit is trump, cannot be played on a trick with a King, team with fewer points at the start of a hand controls it
• Apply moves and update state
  • Trick play
  • Church of England to nullify hands
  • Scoring
    • Each team earns one point for each trick that they
      won
    • Diamonds on cards collected are worth one point each
  • Tie breaker - last trick
• Random state determination function (randomize hidden state for bots for fair play) (3 facedown cards need to be added back)
• Initial reward function
• End-to-end self play using ISMCTS
• Human end-to-end verification with a text interface
• King leads should be treated as leading the current trump
• Human end-to-end verification with a UI