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Doesn't this all assume that the opponent is choosing a random word? If they're trying to be evil, I'm sure they can pick words where each letter you get gives
by Natsu 15y ago
Doesn't this all assume that the opponent is choosing a random word? If they're trying to be evil, I'm sure they can pick words where each letter you get gives little information.
For example, which letter do you guess if the puzzle is _og? You still have to go through bcdfhjln even after you've burned however many guesses getting that o & g.
- ars 15y agoI once wrong a hangman game that did this in reverse. The computer made sure to make you be as wrong as possible, while still ensuring your guesses were "correct". It had one problem in that it always tried to make sure you guessed wrong, but by carefully choosing your letters you could cause it to exclude tons of words because they contained the letter you guessed, leaving only a small number of possible words. It needed a refinement to occasionally allow you to guess correctly if that maximized the number of possible words remaining that still fit the prior guesses.