I didnt quite went thru the algo but this is where u were doing wrong

while passing paremeters, it never changes the original. So your code never came out of the loop.

This explains more http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2000-05/03-qa-0526-pass.html

I've done some modification to ur code.I'm not sure how correct is the changes..but u might want to do similar. Good Luck.

class Person{

public boolean alive;

public int number_alive;

public int wins;

public Person(boolean pAlive, int pWins)

alive=pAlive;

wins=pWins;

public class Duellist {

private String charlie;

private String bob;

private String aaron;

private int numberOfDuels = 10000;

int aaron_wins=0, bob_wins=0, charlie_wins=0;

boolean aaronAlive = true;

boolean bobAlive = true;

boolean charlieAlive = true;

int num_alive=3;

public void shoot(Person p, double accuracy)

double random_num = (double) (Math.random()*1);

if (random_num <= accuracy)

p.alive = false;

num_alive--;

public String startDuel()

Person aaron=new Person(true,0);

Person charlie=new Person(true,0);

Person bob = new Person(true,0);

do

if (aaron.alive)

if (charlie.alive)

else if (bob.alive)

if (bob.alive)

if (charlie.alive)

else if (aaron.alive)

else

if(charlie.alive)

if (bob.alive)

else if (aaron.alive)

else

}while(num_alive > 1);

if (aaron.alive)

return "Aaron";

else if(bob.alive)

return "Bob";

else

return "Charlie";

public int strategy1()

String winner="";

do

if(winner == "Aaron")

aaron_wins++;

else if (winner == "Bob")

bob_wins++;

else

charlie_wins++;

numberOfDuels--;

}while (numberOfDuels >0);

return 0 ;

public void printOutput()

System.out.println("number of wins of charlie: " +charlie_wins);

System.out.println("number of wins of Aaron: " +aaron_wins);

System.out.println("number of wins of bob: " +bob_wins);

public static void main (String[] args) {

Duellist Duelist_Test = new Duellist();