What is the longest road in a settlement?
In Settlers, players get two victory points for having the "longest road". This is defined to be: The longest contiguous single path (measured in roads) from start point to end point, that is not broken up by an opponents settlement or city.
How many segments long is the longest road?
The Argument: One friend was arguing that because the road is not broken by another player, it is 10 segments long while another was arguing that the longest road should be able to be taken in 1 trip, so it is 8 segments long. We know that the rule is given as.
How do you get the longest road in Catan?
The Longest Road is a special card included in Catan and is worth 2 victory points. The first player to have 5 or more continuous road segments, from one point to another without doubling back, may claim this card. If a different player gains a longer continuous road, they may claim the card from the current holder.
How do you get the longest road card?
The first player to build a continuous road (not counting forks) of at least 5 road segments, receives the Special Card “Longest Road”. [...] so you don't get to count the two-segment fork.
Is it legal to move a road?
Yes it is a legal move you can find an example on page 11 of the Almanac. Essentially as long as a road has a connection to a city it can be broken up.
Can you disrupt a settlement?
If you build a settlement on his road, you disrupt it yes.
How many segments are there in the longest road card?
With this, it is possible to completely secure the Longest Road card by using all 15 of your road segments in a continuous manner. since there are only 15 segments per player, no one can have a longer road than you.
What is the longest road in Catan?
Longest Road. The Longest Road is a special card included in Catan and is worth 2 victory points. The first player to have 5 or more continuous road segments, from one point to another without doubling back, may claim this card. If a different player gains a longer continuous road, they may claim the card from the current holder.
Output
All players that have a road of the longest length (it could be more than one if there are ties), followed by a whitespace and/or underscore delimited count in base 10 of how long that road is.
The Problem statement
You may write a program or function, receives the input board via STDIN or as a string argument to your function, which returns the output described above as a string or prints it to STDOUT (or closest alternative). You may optionally include a single trailing newline in the output.
