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I have had this lateral thinking game online for a while. The jist of the game is that one player asks a "host" a series of questions in order to reach a full u

I have had this lateral thinking game online for a while. The jist of the game is that one player asks a "host" a series of questions in order to reach a full understanding of what happened in a story, based on an initial premise. I have tried in the past at adding AI players but could never get reliable answers. However, as AI has improved, I decided to give it another go. At the moment it is connected to deepseek v3 with some basic prompts, and it looks to handle the task pretty well. Not yet perfect but it definitely does form an impressive understanding of the stories, and the game itself.

jsnell 2y ago
It tends to reveal a lot of extra information, even when you're playing it straight rather than trying to trick the AI. Like, when you ask the "does the reason the window is open matter?"-style questions that should be bread and butter for this kind of game it'll often go beyond a "YES" into "YES, the reason the window is open provides crucial context to what they were thinking". The worst case was me asking whether somebody died via foul play, and the AI answered "NO. Your question is whether he was intentionally killed rather than it being a <spoiler> accident".
- emurph55 2y ago
  that's pretty funny. Yeah, its far from perfect in terms of implementation at the moment. I was more curious to see if it was capable of understanding the game more than anything for the moment. Previous attempts with other models had proved to be disappointing. I will tweak the prompts to resolve that issue soon enough though. Like you say, it should be bread and butter for this.