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Eating monsters problem solution

 
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I need java source for this problem..

Eating monsters, rules:
- There are 5 monsters, each monster having 5 calories to start with.
- Each monster is served a packet of food per round
- The food packet contains everything from 0 to 2 calories
- Each monster waits some random time before starting to eat their food
- When the food is eaten by a monster, it's number of calories will
increase with the number of calories contained in the food packet
- A monster will burn one calorie each time it eats
- Statistically, every 5th packet of food is poisoned
- If a monster eats a poisoned packet of food, it will loose that number of calories
- All monsters must finish eating before the next round of servings
- The strongest monsters eats statistically first, the time to wait from they
are served their food is calculated from how many calories they have in them.
- One monster will also steal food from another random monster per round of serving.
It is the first monster waking up that will steal from the others. This is done before
it will eat its own packet of food.
- If either the monsters food or the stolen food, the combimed food packet
will also be poisoned.
- A monster is dead if it no longer has any calories, and it will no
longer be a participant in the food fight

Out put example :
Monster 0 stole the food from monster 3
Oh no, monster 1 was poisoned: 2 calories left
monster 0(6) monster 1(2) monster 2(4) monster 3(4) monster 4(6)
Monster 2 stole the food from monster 4
Oh no, monster 2 was poisoned: 1 calorie left
monster 0(6) monster 1(3) monster 2(1) monster 3(3) monster 4(5)
Monster 4 stole the food from monster 1
Oh no, monster 4 was poisoned: 3 calories left
Oh no, monster 3 was poisoned: 2 calories left
Oh no, monster 2 was poisoned and died
monster 0(6) monster 1(2) monster 2(X) monster 3(2) monster 4(3)
Monster 0 stole the food from monster 1
Oh no, monster 4 was poisoned and died
monster 0(8) monster 1(2) monster 2(X) monster 3(1) monster 4(X)
Monster 1 stole the food from monster 0
monster 0(7) monster 1(2) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 1 stole the food from monster 0
monster 0(7) monster 1(5) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 0 stole the food from monster 1
monster 0(6) monster 1(5) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 0 stole the food from monster 1
monster 0(7) monster 1(5) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 0 stole the food from monster 1
monster 0(7) monster 1(5) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 1 stole the food from monster 0
Oh no, monster 1 was poisoned: 3 calories left
monster 0(7) monster 1(3) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
Monster 1 stole the food from monster 0
Oh no, monster 1 was poisoned and died
monster 0(7) monster 1(X) monster 2(X) monster 3(X) monster 4(X)
The winner is monster 0 with 7 calories left
[ November 24, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]
 
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Please remember that JavaRanch is NotACodeMill and you are always encouraged to DoYourOwnHomework.

So if you can tell us what you have written so far and ask a more direct question if you are stuck we will help all we can.
 
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And welcome to JavaRanch and Beginners'
 
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Welcome to JavaRanch, if you are having problems starting off I would recommend using a PriorityQueue to hold each monster with the priority set based on the monsters strength.

Hope this gets you started, sounds like a fun assignment compared to a lot of other ones I've seen handed out.
 
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This is a duplicate of this thread.
 
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No it isn't, that thread is a duplicate of this one. This thread's getting closed, anyway.
 
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