Kalah Board Game

Paying around with Java and a Kalah(6,6) game.

The general rules of the game are explained on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalah.

Basics

• 6 Pits per player
• 6 Stones by pit
• 1 Kalah per player
• 2 Players

Board

  < ---- Player 2 turn direction       

Player2							Player2
	L	K	J	I	H	G
K2							K1
	A	B	C	D	E	F

   Player 1 turn direction ---- >

Player 1 Kalah's is position K1, his pits are A-F

Player 2 Kalah's is position K2, his pits are G-L

How to play

• Always move counter-clockwise
• Start your turn only in your pits
• Always take all your selected pit's stones and distribute each one in the adyecent pits including your Kalah

Rules

• If your last stone ends in your Kalah you get another turn
• If your last stone ends in an empty pit and your oposite pit had stones, you take his pit stones and yours to your Kalah
• If a player had all his pits empty the oposite player take the remaining stones to his Kalah and the game ends
• At the game endings you count all your Kalah stones and the player with more stones wins

Rest Services

• POST /new-board -> Init a new board and creates its logs info.
• POST /play?game_id=?&player_id=?&pit_id=? -> Plays a turn, also draws the new board status.
• GET /load-board?load_game_id=? -> Draws an hmlt board status by game id.
• GET /logs -> Load pevious games logs and shows current plays.

Run the game

Clone the repository locally, then in your terminal go to this projects folder, and execute the following command.

$ docker-compose up --build

Then in your browser open

http://localhost:8080/