So for school I am working on a mancala project. I’ve been trouble shooting and I think I’ve finally narrowed down where the problem is, which is within the if statement:
if (sum1 == 0 ||sum2==0)
After this all ends, I return the winner. The winner is returning, however, it keeps returning -1 even if both sums are equal (I have them outputted to keep track of what they are). The variable winner should be 3 instead of -1.
I’m hoping this is something silly and obvious I’ve just been overlooking.
I’ve only posted the function where I’m pretty certain the problem is, but if you want to see the whole project I can post that as well.
I put outputs inside the if statements that change the winner, and none of them are outputting, so this means that my program isnt even entering the if statement in question and is just outputting the -1. sum1 and sum2 both equal zero right now (I have a function that turns all the array values into zeros for testing), so it should be entering it but it isnt.
I didn’t want to post this in the project section because this project isn’t complete. Any help is greatly appreciated!
int gameOverCheck(int beadArray[MAX])
{
int winner = -1; //returns - 1 when game is not over/ returns 1 or 2 to return who won
int sum1 = 0; //holds player 1s bin values
int sum2 = 0; //holds player 2s bin values
for (int i = 0; i <6; i++) //counts beads on player1's side of board
{
cout <<endl << "sum1" << endl;
sum1 = sum1 + beadArray[i];
cout << endl << sum1 << endl;
}
for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) //counts beads on player2's side of board
{
if (i >= 6) // "filter" to make sure that only the second half is being added to sum2
{
cout << endl << "sum2" << endl;
sum2 = sum2 + beadArray[i];
cout << endl << sum2 << endl;
}
}
if (sum1 == 0 || sum2 == 0) // checks if either player has all their main bins empty
{
/* Note: beadArray[13] is bin 6 and beadArray[6] is bin 13.*/
if (beadArray[6] < beadArray[13]) //if player 1 has more beads than player 2
{
winner = winner + 1;
}
if (beadArray[13] < beadArray[6]) //if player 2 has more beads than player 1.
{
winner = winner + 2;
}
if (beadArray[13] = beadArray[6])
{
winner = 3; //in case of tie
}
} //end of gameover
return winner;
//end of fuction
}