Hangman

[Charlie Reams]

Here's a thing.

It plays Hangman perfectly. Here's a paper about it. It's fun.

[Howard Somerset]

It took three goes to get my first word correctly. That's because I answered wrongly on the first two occasions.

Looks good. I might even try reading the article later.

[Charlie Reams]

It took three goes to get my first word correctly. That's because I answered wrongly on the first two occasions.

There should probably be some text about how the interface works but I'm lazy, I'm sure people will figure it out after a few goes.

BTW when you get bored of losing, it's quite fun to find words it can guess on the first go. VERISIMILITUDE and TARAMASALATA are two I've found so far.

[Howard Somerset]

It took three goes to get my first word correctly. That's because I answered wrongly on the first two occasions.

There should probably be some text about how the interface works but I'm lazy, I'm sure people will figure it out after a few goes.

Well the second time was entirely my own fault, and no amount of explanation of the interface would have got over that one. I hadn't realised that there were two As in BASTARD. It was the first 7-letter word that came to mind.

[Gavin Chipper]

Here's a thing.

It plays Hangman perfectly. Here's a paper about it. It's fun.

It's good but not perfect. For one thing it's far too arrogant. It tells you what it thinks the answer and thinks that's the game over. Just because it hasn't heard of FLID...

Also, it doesn't know Beth's probability distribution.

But very good anyway.

[Ian Volante]

It failed with ARSEHOLE and one life.

[Michael Wallace]

Here's a paper about it. It's fun.

tl;dr

[Ryan Taylor]

How easy would it be to replicate this for the Hangman based games on quiz machines? Ultimately, would it be worth it?

[Charlie Reams]

How easy would it be to replicate this for the Hangman based games on quiz machines? Ultimately, would it be worth it?

Pretty easy, although most of those games feature weird proper nouns and stuff so you'd need a good dictionary.

[Thomas Carey]

Very good. Did it with MURIQUI and it went EAOIF and then got it right although only had one correct letter.

[Ryan Taylor]

How easy would it be to replicate this for the Hangman based games on quiz machines? Ultimately, would it be worth it?

Pretty easy, although most of those games feature weird proper nouns and stuff so you'd need a good dictionary.

And would it be worth it? My guess is probably no. I just wonder if that leangem video that Matt inboxed us was done by using something like this off camera?

[Steve Balog]

Beat it with JAZZ. Not very surprising, though, considering the algorithm. Nice find.

[Hugh Binnie]

With ?A?AA?? it went for M instead of S with only one life left. (?)

(Also, it seems to be missing SHITFACE but not SHITFACES.)

[Richard Adams]

Olympic seems not to be a legitimate word

[Charlie Reams]

Olympic seems not to be a legitimate word

Capital O.