[Tuxmath-devel] Difference in the supposed and actual behavior when an answer corresponds to multiple questions

[Siddharth K. <sid...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I would first like to introduce myself to the tux4kids community. My name is
Siddharth Kothari and I am a 2nd year undergraduate computer science
student.

I downloaded tuxmath from the git repository a couple of days back. While
going through the README.txt file, I saw a *note *under the HOW TO PLAY
section which says:
"*Note: Sometimes more than one comet will have the same answer.  In this
case, the lowest comet will be destroyed.*" However, when I am playing the
game and I see that my answer corresponds to more than one comets, all of
them get destroyed (I have seen this happening in Math_Training_Academy, and
the Fleet_Missions). To verify this, one can look at the "void
game_handle_answer(void)" function of the "game.c" file.

Consider a scenario where there are two comets: 5*2 = ? and 23-13 = ?. A
player gives the answer "10" after seeing the first one. But instead, both
of them get shot though he may not have calculated the 2nd comet's answer.
In my opinion, such situations give a player an unfair advantage.

Can someone let me know if the problem is with the documentation or with the
code? That would give me a start at contributing to the community.

Thanks,
Siddharth