lichengeese

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not to stifle further discussion, but this Wikipedia page has a wealth of examples

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_language

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rather than trying to define abstractions for turns and rounds, maybe you could implement the game state (and possibly individual players) as a finite state machine.

In this model, the way you set up the states and transitions for a particular game will capture its idiosyncracies in turn and round order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds similar to how the monarch of Malaysia is chosen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_to_the_Malaysian_thrones

The next national ruler is chosen from the nine hereditary state sultans. It's technically an elective monarchy, but there is a conventional rotation order among the states.