Shut the Box Simulator

WIP Intended to allow me to simulate a large number of plays of the game Shut the Box using different strategies, generating and saving data about the outcomes of each game (essentially Monte Carlo experiments)

Steps

1. Writes some steps

2. Simulate a Single Game with the simplest strategy

   • Write high level pseudocode
   • pseudocode for helper functions
   • implement and test the helper functions

3. Save game data to the disk

   • Need to think about what I care to save. Better too much than too little but could start simple
   • pick a format. Probably CSV
   • One table or multiple?

4. Update the code to simulate an arbitrary number of games

   • constant value or command line input the number
   • probably just a for loop over the step two code

5. Define multiple game strategies and update the game simulator to use a chosen one

6. Write steps for EDA

7. Start with a separate .ipynb file

8. import the json data

   • read the file into memory
   • convert it into a pandas DataFrame?