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What I find interesting about word games is that they are very rarely games about words. E.g. Scrabble is adversarial optimization, Wordle is constraint satisfa
by qsort 5y ago
What I find interesting about word games is that they are very rarely games about words. E.g. Scrabble is adversarial optimization, Wordle is constraint satisfaction, etc.
To this day the puzzles I enjoy the most are crosswords and rebuses, mostly because I can switch off the part of my brain that screams "oh yeah, just grep /usr/dict/words".
- melony 5y agoI have bad news for you. Here's a potential algorithm: 1) Fine-tune a language model to come up with words that fit the crossword descriptive sentence. 2) Problem is reduced to a constraint satisfaction problem. Implementation is left as exercise for the reader :)
- closeparen 5y agoI really enjoy Codenames because it’s a word-meanings game instead of a word-spellings game.
- pacificmint 5y ago> word games […] are very rarely games about words > Scrabble is adversarial optimization A friend of mine used to joke that Scrabble is an area control game with 40,000 rules for tile placement. Like many good jokes, there is a kernel of truth in there.