Codebreaker
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:25 pm
http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/
It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ACME straight after CAME gave no white stars!)Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
That's how I keep winning then.Jon Corby wrote:It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ACME straight after CAME gave no white stars!)Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
After each go it says how many valid words are left. I assumed it picked from them. Anyway after my first go I realised it makes a difference what word you choose. Picking common letters means that for every thing it knows about your word, the more words it still has to choose from. I mean, if there was one word that began ZQ then once it knew my first two letters it would know it all.Jon Corby wrote:It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ACME straight after CAME gave no white stars!)Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
I dunno, I picked FUCK which doesn't have any really common letters but I won on go 9 and it wasn't anywhere near my word, never getting any more than one white star.Gavin Chipper wrote:After each go it says how many valid words are left. I assumed it picked from them. Anyway after my first go I realised it makes a difference what word you choose. Picking common letters means that for every thing it knows about your word, the more words it still has to choose from. I mean, if there was one word that began ZQ then once it knew my first two letters it would know it all.Jon Corby wrote:It doesn't seem to be very well programmed IMO, I've played twice and won both times, and it's (seemingly) made some very poor choices (e.g. establishing that the word ends in -ME and then trying ACME straight after CAME gave no white stars!)Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/
This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?