how to find the average number of rolls it takes to complete a snakes and ladders game?

Question

write code to simulate the game for one player and calculate the number of dice throws required to finish a game. The user should be allowed to specify the number of games simul

Answer 1

The code that you have written only rolls the dice one time. You need to keep rolling until you have won the game. It might be best to create a function that plays the game one time and returns the number of dice rolls needed.

def playGame():
    counterPosition = 0
    numberOfRolls = 0
    while (counterPosition < 100):
        numberOfRolls += 1
        currentDiceroll = diceroll()
        print("The currentDiceroll is", currentDiceroll)
        counterPosition += currentDiceroll
        # your if statements go here
    return numberOfRolls

Then you can call this function however many times you want.

totalDiceRolls = 0
for i in range(userInput):
    totalDiceRolls += playGame()
avgRolls = totalDiceRolls / userInput