A quicky python script to simulate random pushes in the Threes game at threesjs.com, as described in http://datascopeanalytics.com/what-we-think/2014/03/13/are-you-really-any-good-at-threes

threes_simulation.py

# standard library
import sys
import random
import time

# need to pip install selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException

# wait this long before hitting arrow keys
wait_time = 0.05

# choose from these
possible_keys = [
    Keys.ARROW_UP,
    Keys.ARROW_DOWN,
    Keys.ARROW_LEFT,
    Keys.ARROW_RIGHT,
]

# open up a browser to the game on the web
wd = webdriver.Firefox()
wd.get('http://threesjs.com')

# get new game element
new_game = wd.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@id='new-game']")

# keep playing games and recording the score
score = None
while True:

    # break and get score if game is over
    try:
        score_element = wd.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='score']")
    except NoSuchElementException:
        pass
    else:
        time.sleep(wait_time)

        # get score and print it
        score = int(score_element.text)
        print score
        sys.stdout.flush()

        # start a new game
        new_game.click()

    # wait for some time for move to take place
    time.sleep(wait_time)

    # choose a random direction to push
    new_game.send_keys(random.choice(possible_keys))

wd.quit()