Avoid repetion in random combinations

I thought to use something like this:

I apologize, I’m not great at reading events at the moment. I thought I had given a solution to your last question in one of the first files I posted. I think I’m causing more confusion with every new capx I post since I do things slightly different over time.

In the last capx it just makes three shuffled value. If they are all unique (don’t equal each other) then one is picked randomly to be the right answer.

You could just make two shuffled values and make them unique by comparing with each other and a correct answer.

I’d recommend doing some tests to swap two values or two positions of objects. Once you can do that you have all the tools you need to shuffle anything.

In general you could swap a and b with:

Temp=a

A=b

B=temp

Hi R0J0hound

Thanks a lot for the last example. I've been studying this file and I've also made some changes to my event sheet to make it look more like your solution, however, I'm looking to raise the difficulty once again and ended up getting stuck. I've duplicated your file already in the format it should be (two lines of options instead of 1), but the rest remains the same. I decided to clone the sprite to use in the other row, but I can't make it draw the numbers. The idea is that one of the options from the top row and another from the bottom row arrive in the final result. Could you take a look?

we.tl/t-ZqYIS3lFi1

All the code refers to same sprite type. The new choices are a different type.

I made all the numbers be the same type and used a group variable to differentiate between then to reduce the amount of events.

There are many ways to setup the events. Currently it does most of the stuff with variables and only deals with sprites when displaying. Nothing is automatic. To display it picks a certain group of sprites and sets it from a certain variable.

Hi R0J0hound

Thank you for replying

OK. I understand what you said, but even though it's a new row of options I have to leave it in the same sprite as the others? Because in that case, I would have to select two options (1 in the top row and one in the bottom row).

There isn’t one way you have to do it. You can set it up any way you like. With any setup you’ll have to do some juggling with events.

If it’s any consolation I find any changes to this to be complicated too. I attempted to simplify things into manageable chunks but I still find rough to debug or modify.

Ok. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to turn this into the new format (2 lines). I'll keep making my attempts around here

If anyone else has any ideas on how to resolve this I would be grateful to hear your suggestions. I'm still stuck here. :(

Hi R0J0hound,

Will you accept some coffee to help me solve this problem? If so,

how many coffees would it be?

I appreciate the offer but I’m a bit pressed for time lately. No coffees needed. I’m actually considering getting rid of that since I’m happy to help as I have time usually. I can try to have a look again one of these days. It’s just not a fun problem to work on and I’ve created more work for myself since I haven’t been able to create something that is easy to understand or use.

I burn out on projects pretty quick, even the ones I enjoy. But I’ll see if I can get a chance to look at this again later.

I appreciate the offer but I’m a bit pressed for time lately. No coffees needed. I’m actually considering getting rid of that since I’m happy to help as I have time usually. I can try to have a look again one of these days. It’s just not a fun problem to work on and I’ve created more work for myself since I haven’t been able to create something that is easy to understand or use.

I burn out on projects pretty quick, even the ones I enjoy. But I’ll see if I can get a chance to look at this again later.

I would really appreciate it. I know it's a lot of work to develop something that meets these new possibilities, but unfortunately, I only need to solve this one to be able to show my idea. I've almost given up several times, but I need to insist a little more and that's why I'm asking you to help me with this. I think the "coffees" are a great way for people to give some form of retribution for your help. I'm totally comfortable with it.

Hi,

Had a look and no, I'm not wrapping my head around it. I just see a lot of shuffling going on.

Based on this whole thread you are doing three things: shuffling, shuffling using a specified order, and displaying the numbers.

function shuffle(text)
-- var i=0
-- repeat 10 times
-- -- set i to int(random(4))
-- -- set text to left(text, i) & mid(text,i+1,10) & mid(text,i,1)
-- return text

function shuffleBy(text, order)
-- var ret=""
-- repeat 4 times
-- -- add mid(text, find(text, loopindex), 1)
-- return ret

function display(text, x, y, anim)
-- repeat 4 times
-- -- create sprite at (x, y+32*loopindex)
-- -- sprite: set frame to int(mid(text,loopindex,1))
-- -- sprite: set animation to anim

var A = shuffle("0123")
var B1="",B2="",B3=""
while B1==B2 or B1==B3 or B2==B3 
-- B1 = shuffle("0123")
-- B2 = shuffle("0123")
-- B3 = shuffle("0123")
var correctB = choose(B1,B2,B3)
var C = shuffle("0123")
var answer = shuffleBy(shuffleBy(A, correctB), C)

//display
display(A, 100,100, "alpha")
display(B1, 100,100+32*1, "digits")
display(B2, 100,100+32*2, "digits")
display(B3, 100,100+32*3, "digits")
display(C, 100,100+32*4, "digits")
display(answer, 100,100+32*5, "alpha")