Learn to Program, 3rd Edition

Exercises from Chapter 8

More Flavors Competing

(Found here.)

Add some more flavors to the ULTIMATE FLAVOR TOURNAMENT program, and make it so that it’s easy to add new flavors.

How You Could Do It

# note: match_A_B means "round A, match B"
match_1_1 = ["vanilla", "chocolate"] 
match_1_2 = ["rhubarb", "pistachio"]
match_1_3 = ["spumoni", "green tea"]
match_1_4 = ["cherry", "strawberry"]
match_2_1 = []  # this will hold the winners from 1_1 & 1_2
match_2_2 = []  # this will hold the winners from 1_3 & 1_4
match_3_1 = []  # this will hold the winners from 2_1 & 2_2
winner    = nil # this will hold the final winner

def ask_for_winner(flavors)
  puts "0. "+flavors[0]
  puts "1. "+flavors[1] ...