This is the pallanghuzhi game code. Pallanguzhi is a two player game. It is a sister game to mancala which is popular in AI since a lot of agents were created to play mancala. Pallenguzhi differs slightly in its rules when compared to mancala, regardless, it’s still a counting game.

AI Agent: This projects work with different agents playing the game “Pallanguzhi”. The agents employed the algorithms: Greedy, Min-Max, Min-Max with alpha-beta pruning, Genetic Algorithm and A3C. Each agent played against another agent to test how well the different heuristics (strategies) helped the agent win and the observations were recorded.

There are two python files game.py and board.py.

board.py file contains game board, no of pits and pieces in each pit along with some of the methods.

game.py file contains all agent algorithms that is naive algorithm, greedy algorithm, min max algorithm, min max with alpha beta prunning algorithm.

Open Console

Go to the directory of the program file and then execute below line in the console

python game.py

You can see an output in the console.