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The Hangman Cheat (Computer hangman game that uses statistical guesses)
- statictype 18y agoI don't really see any cheating in this. It just works the way you would expect, right? Am I missing something?
- gb 18y agoI don't see any cheating either, it's probably just called that because it's uncannily good as long as you don't use short words.
- cperciva 18y agoSome people would say that using a dictionary is cheating -- but really, this is just another demonstration of Norvig's maxim that "more data usually beats better algorithms". This isn't a very smart hangman-playing program, but it has enough data at its disposal that it really doesn't need to be smart.
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- fh 18y agoI tried it three times and won twice. Are my word choices too obscure for this simple-minded program? This is funny because I'm not a native English speaker, so my vocabulary is limited. (For the record, I won with "cryptology" and "xenophobic". Of course those are in the dictionary now.)