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    <p>Mancala is a fascinating game that I programmed in Java. On the image below we see a Mancala gameboard. For my problem you need to know that a A1-A6,B1-B6 are called pits and the big pits are called kalahs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.pressmantoy.com/instructions/mancala_img1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The mancala game http://www.pressmantoy.com/instructions/mancala_img1.jpg</a></p> <p>The pits A1-A6 and right kalah belongs to player A and pits B1-B6 and left kalah to player B. </p> <p>The game ends when all six pits on one side of the gameboard are empty or when there are more than 24 pits in one player's kalah. This is what I tried to program in a boolean method (which returns true if there is a winner so I can use other method to tell who it is):</p> <pre><code>public boolean isThereAWinner() { ArrayList &lt;SuperPit&gt; pitsOfOwner = owner.getmyPits(); ArrayList &lt;SuperPit&gt; pitsOfOpponent = owner.getopponent().getmyPits(); for (int i = 0; i &lt; pitsOfOwner.size(); i++) { if (pitsOfOwner.get(i).isValidPlayOption() == true) return false; } for (int i = 0; i &lt; pitsOfOpponent.size(); i++) { if (pitsOfOpponent.get(i).isValidPlayOption() == true) return false; } if (owner.getKalah().getSeed() &gt; 24) return true; return false; } </code></pre> <p>Where:</p> <pre><code>protected int seed; public int getSeed() { return seed; } public boolean isValidPlayOption() { if (getSeed() &gt; 0) return true; else return false; } </code></pre> <p>The oppositepit() and nextPit() methods work. The myPits ArrayLists contain the pits that belong to the two respective players. </p> <p>I thought that this method should work since if one player no longer has seeds in his pit the game should stop. The method isThereAWinner() is run every time a player makes a move.</p> <p>Unfortunately, the method always returns false. I have no idea why and hope someone here can provide me with some insight.</p>
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