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+# Best Game
+
+Raphael Meyer
+US
+
+## Judges' Comments:
+
+### To build:
+
+        make meyer
+
+### To run:
+
+        ./meyer
+
+For your first input try:
+
+        a 0 1
+
+This entry turns a newspaper solitare puzzle into a competition
+with the computer to be the last one moving.  The object of this
+source code is to determine the object of this source code!  :-)
+
+## Selected Author's Comments:
+
+I wanted submit a fully object-oriented entry to show that
+object-orientated code:
+
+  1. is ridiculously bloated
+  2. is unreadable
+  3. isn't WYWIWID anymore
+
+But I just totally failed. No, I didn't fail in showing any of
+the points above. Before I even had the chance to prove any of
+these claims, (1) already brought me to my knees. The code got
+so much bloated up, that I missed the size limit by a few hundred
+bytes. Therefore, I broke the only rule in this contest, I think
+you shouldn't break in any case: Rule Nr 2, The size of ...
+
+The degree of claim (2) actually depends on the compiler. As I
+_manualy_ compiled it from [a generic object-oriented programming
+language] to C, it didn't just end up unreadable, but awfully
+messed up, i.e. obfuscated.
+
+As it is already (pre)compiled to C, you could also call it an object-
+disoriented progam.
+
+Comparing this progam to a potential object-oriented implementation,
+it is obvious, that object-oriented code isn't WYWIWID (what
+you write is what it does). It may be tempting to think that
+
+        Object o;
+
+might do something similar as
+
+        struct not_an_object o;
+
+But this program reveals that it doesn't. Even worse, this program only
+reveals the tip of the iceberg, what kind of black magic is involved in
+a simple declaration of an object.
+
+A few things you can explore about object-orientation in this program
+include:
+
+  - constructors (invoked by the new operator)
+  - new operators (every class gets its own new operator at compile time)
+  - virtual method tables
+    (all the virtual method tables have been combined to a single vtable)
+  - runtime method binding
+  - inheritance and polymorphism
+
+It is left as an exercise to the reader to find a corresponding
+implementation in a popular object-oriented programming language.
+
+### Starting the game
+
+        ./meyer [SEED]
+
+### Gameplay
+
+It is a sudoku based game. The goal of the game is to be able
+to do the last valid 'move'.
+
+On your turn you have to set a free cell to a value between 1 to 9 without breaking the following rule:
+
+any number must be unique in its
+    1. row
+    2. column
+    3. 3x3 block.
+
+Expected input for your move:
+
+        row column number
+
+where
+
+        row:    [a-i]
+        column: [0-8]
+        number: [1-9].
+
+The game can be aborted with 'q'.
+
+The one who can do the last move wins the game.