simpleDiceThrow

Lets you throw a dice once or a hundred times and then gives you the statistics.

Requirements

• Python 3. (It was written for Python 2 and ported to Python 3 when it was put in the browser.)
• No third-party packages. The only import is randint from the standard library's random module.

Running

python3 throwTheDice.py

The program prints a prompt, reads a single line of input, acts on it, and then waits for Enter before exiting.

Options

Input is lowercased before it is compared, so ONCE and once are equivalent.

Input	Behavior
once	Rolls the die a single time and prints the result.
hundred	Rolls the die one hundred times, then prints how many times each of the faces 1 through 6 came up.
anything else	Prints That wasn't an option silly! Try ONCE or HUNDRED. and exits.

The prompt also advertises a QUIT option, but no branch implements it — typing quit currently takes the "anything else" path above. This is tracked in issue #2.

Known issues

Open items are listed on the issue tracker.

Play in your browser

The same game, unmodified, runs in a browser tab under tak's console runtime (Python via Pyodide): https://dice.play.danielstephenson.dev, listed with the rest at danielstephenson.dev/play. To build and serve it locally (needs tak installed):

python3 web/build_zip.py
python3 -c "from tak.web.serve import main; main(root='.', title='Simple Dice Throw')"

Pushes to master deploy it to arcade (.github/workflows/browser.yml).

License

Released under the Stephenson Software Non-Commercial License (Stephenson-NC). See LICENSE for the terms.