Running Bases

In the game of baseball, the batter hits the ball and then tries to touch all four bases, in order, before being tagged out. We will not do anything with the hitting the ball, just running the bases.

• Goal: move to base 1, 2, 3, and home (base 4).
• You are a cheater if you try to skip a base. Lose in that case.
• You win when you get to home.
• When the green flag is clicked, pick a random number from 1 to 5. That number is the base you get “out” at. (If the number is 5 you score.)
• Reset to start at base 0 when the green flag is clicked.

Class discussion

We talked about what variables you should use, and what they mean. The most important variable is last base I got to.

We talked about what the code should look like for base 1. There was an “if-then” block with different choices:

• the last base I got to is the one right before the base (zero): set the last base I got to to current base (1).

• the last base I got to is more than 1: cheater, can’t go back so broadcast “Cheater”

Details

One way to lose is have a stage backdrop that says “Cheater”.

when I receive [Cheater v]
  switch backdrop to [Cheater v]
  stop [all scripts v]