/* Secret Santa problem in B-Prolog. From Ruby Quiz Secret Santa http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz2.html """ Honoring a long standing tradition started by my wife's dad, my friends all play a Secret Santa game around Christmas time. We draw names and spend a week sneaking that person gifts and clues to our identity. On the last night of the game, we get together, have dinner, share stories, and, most importantly, try to guess who our Secret Santa was. It's a crazily fun way to enjoy each other's company during the holidays. To choose Santas, we use to draw names out of a hat. This system was tedious, prone to many "Wait, I got myself..." problems. This year, we made a change to the rules that further complicated picking and we knew the hat draw would not stand up to the challenge. Naturally, to solve this problem, I scripted the process. Since that turned out to be more interesting than I had expected, I decided to share. This weeks Ruby Quiz is to implement a Secret Santa selection script. Your script will be fed a list of names on STDIN. ... Your script should then choose a Secret Santa for every name in the list. Obviously, a person cannot be their own Secret Santa. In addition, my friends no longer allow people in the same family to be Santas for each other and your script should take this into account. """ Comment: Well, this model skips the file input and mail parts. We assume that the friends are identified with a number from 1..n, and the families is identified with a number 1..num_families. Model created by Hakan Kjellerstrand, hakank@gmail.com See also my B-Prolog page: http://www.hakank.org/bprolog/ */ go :- % Ruby Quiz example % Family = [1,1,2,2, 3, 4,4], Family = [1,1,1,1, 2, 3,3,3,3,3, 4,4], length(Family, N), length(X,N), X :: 1..N, % Everyone gives and receives a Secret Santa alldifferent(X), % Can't be one own's Secret Santa foreach(I in 1..N, X[I] #\= I), % No Secret Santa to a person in the same family foreach(I in 1..N, [XI,FXI], (element(I,X,XI), element(XI,Family,FXI), Family[I] #\= FXI)), labeling(X), writeln(X), foreach(I in 1..N, (format("Person ~2d (family ~d) is a Secret Santa of ~2d (family ~d)\n", [I,Family[I],X[I], Family[X[I]]]))), nl.