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G'day,

 Playing around with ruby I decided to re-create the Petals Around the Rose game.

 I have completed this however to protect the logic behind the game I'm only going to post the code that create the dice here.

 I'm new to Ruby and OO so please if you have any ideas let me know them.

Here is a screenshot of the script in action:

And here is the code:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

row1 = row2 = row3 = ""

edge = "+------+"

top = {
  "1" => "|      |",
  "2" => "|    []|",
  "3" => "|    []|",
  "4" => "|[]  []|",
  "5" => "|[]  []|",
  "6" => "|[][][]|",
}

middle = {
  "1" => "|  []  |",
  "2" => "|      |",
  "3" => "|  []  |",
  "4" => "|      |",
  "5" => "|  []  |",
  "6" => "|[][][]|",
}

bottom = {
  "1" => "|      |",
  "2" => "|[]    |",
  "3" => "|[]    |",
  "4" => "|[]  []|",
  "5" => "|[]  []|",
  "6" => "|[][][]|",
}

$set = Array.new
 
def roll(times)
  count = 0
  while count < times
    temp = rand(7)
    $set.push(temp.to_s) if temp != 0
    count += 1 if temp != 0
  end
end

times = 1

while times != 0
  puts "Please enter the number of times to roll."
  puts "Type \"0\" and press enter to quit."
  times = gets.chomp.to_i

  roll(times)
  rolled = $set.length
  $set.each do |index|
    row1 += top.fetch(index) + " "
    row2 += middle.fetch(index) + " "
    row3 += bottom.fetch(index) + " "
  end

  rolled.times{ print edge + " " }
  print "\n"
  puts row1 + "\n" + row2 + "\n" + row3 + "\n"
  rolled.times{ print edge + " " }
  print "\n"

  $set.clear
  row1 = row2 = row3 = ""
end

I'm aware of the redundancy in the top, middle and bottom arrays, just made it easier to understand the layout of the die...

Regards, Keith