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Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:25 pm
by Jon O'Neill
http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/

This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:42 pm
by Jon Corby
Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/

This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
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!)

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:52 pm
by Jon O'Neill
Jon Corby wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/

This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
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!)
That's how I keep winning then.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:09 pm
by Gavin Chipper
How many goes does it/you normally take to win? I just played once and lost on go 6 but I had three correct in the right place on that round.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:17 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Just won on go 7.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:48 pm
by Johnny Canuck
A dumb loss in this game legitimately just made me use a four-letter word.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 4:04 pm
by Gavin Chipper
Jon Corby wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/

This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
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!)
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.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:55 pm
by Ben Wilson
Gavin Chipper wrote:
Jon Corby wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:http://kcollins.io/codebreaker/

This unfortunately has killed a lunch hour. I win most times, somehow?
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!)
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.
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.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2015 5:58 pm
by Ben Wilson
I feel this is worthy of sharing.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:17 pm
by Ian Volante
Took me about eight goes to win.

Re: Codebreaker

Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2015 11:00 pm
by Matt Morrison
Won on first go so obviously not playing any more.

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