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1972 - Hide and Seek

The follwoing info has been adapted from Regna in Blue blog (https://bluerenga.blog/2019/03/14/before-adventure-part-1-hide-and-seek-1972):

The goal is to “FIND THE FOUR PLAYERS WHO ARE HIDDEN ON A 10 BY 10 GRID.” You are given 10 guesses; each guess you pick a point on the grid, and are told the distances to each of the hidden players. (If your guess is right where a player is located, then you get credit for finding that person.)

The game will start with the instructions:

THIS IS A GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK.

THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO FIND THE FOUR PLAYERS

WHO ARE HIDDEN ON A 10 BY 10 GRID.

HOMEBASE WILL BE THE POSITION AT (0,0) AND ANY GUESS

YOU MAKE SHOULD CONTAIN TWO NUMBERS. THE FIRST GIVES

THE UNIT DISTANCE RIGHT OF THE HOMEBASE AND THE SECOND

IS THE UNIT DISTANCE ABOVE HOMEBASE.

YOU WILL HAVE TEN ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE THESE PLAYERS

AND WILL BE TOLD HOW CLOSE YOUR GUESS IS

TO EACH PLAYER.

IF AFTER 10 TRIES YOU ARE UNABLE TO CARRY OUT THIS TASK

YOU MAY CONTINUE TO BE ‘IT’, BUT THE PLAYERS WILL

BE PERMITTED TO MOVE TO NEW LOCATIONS.

ARE YOU READY TO BEGIN?

Game file (Basic):

https://github.com/jasonbdyer/classic-basic/blob/master/Hide_and_Seek_Original.bas