Scoundrel CLI

The card game from Classic Scoundrel, as a command line game. This page runs the same logic two ways: a terminal simulation, and a tiny React component. One core, no rewrites.

Play it in the terminal

Type commands just like the Node CLI. Cards are numbered, f flees, h helps, q quits. The buttons below the terminal send the same commands, for tapping.

Seed

Same game, React UI

The component below holds one game state and calls the same three functions: newGame, playCard, flee. No game logic lives in the component. Click a card to play it.

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const [game, setGame] = useState(() => newGame());

function doPlay(i) {
  const next = structuredClone(game);
  playCard(next, i);
  setGame(next);
}

How it fits together

game-core.js is the whole game as pure functions: no DOM, no Node APIs, no input or output. It is the ES module twin of scoundrel.js, and an equivalence check runs the same seeds and moves through both and requires identical results.
The terminal above is a thin shell around the core: it prints render(game) and feeds typed commands to playCard and flee, exactly like the Node CLI.
The React component is a thinner shell: one useState, one clone per move, and the same three core calls. Swap the shell and the game does not notice.
Get the CLI itself at github.com/SydBal/scoundrel-CLI. The full graphical game is classicscoundrel.com.