Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

#1

Post by dmthompson » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:03 PM UTC

Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress
letterpest.com

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

#2

Post by boundsj » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:13 PM UTC

github: https://github.com/boundsj/letterpest

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

#3

Post by alexmchale » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:44 PM UTC

I find it oddly humorous that the instructions tell you that you must use the Light theme, then the illustration of taking a screenshot shows a dark theme.

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by kmfrk » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:56 PM UTC

Isn't a trie structure the data structure you'd always go for with a dictionary-based project?

EDIT: Title just changed and doesn't mention it (as a feature) anymore.

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by MrScruff » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:03 PM UTC

I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by labo » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:14 PM UTC

alexmchale wrote: post #3

I find it oddly humorous that the instructions tell you that you must use the Light theme, then the illustration of taking a screenshot shows a dark theme.

I find you oddly humorous and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Letterpest is aw3som3!

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by labo » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

MrScruff wrote: post #5

I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?

It's actually a pretty cool experiment... is it not?

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by zwily » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:23 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #4

Isn't a trie structure the data structure you'd always go for with a dictionary-based project? EDIT: Title just changed and doesn't mention it (as a feature) anymore.

I think I'd have used a bloom filter for something like Letterpress.

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by gojomo » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

MrScruff wrote: post #5

I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?

It's the interesting problem -- letter recognition, dictionary search, constrained ranking -- that likely motivates the author(s). The practical use in helping cheaters is just a bonus for bringing added attention to the engineering achievement.

Still, the Letterpress board is so fixed in its layout/fonts that I'm surprised they need a 'neural network' recognizer, and prefer a certain color scheme.

Advanced assignment: calculate whether any given board is a 'solved' game, with a predictable outcome given two 'perfect' players. (My guess is that all boards are, given the advantage of moving first in biasing the score balance in your direction.)

Re: Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress

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Post by boundsj » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:31 PM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #9

MrScruff wrote: post #5

I don't really understand this - has someone really gone to all this trouble to help people cheat at a free word game?

It's the interesting problem -- letter recognition, dictionary search, constrained ranking -- that likely motivates the author(s). The practical use in helping cheaters is just a bonus for bringing added attention to the engineering achievement. Still, the Letterpress board is so fixed in its layout/fonts that I'm surprised they need a 'neural network' recognizer, and prefer a certain color scheme. Advanced assignmen…

re "solved game" http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/11/letterpress-solved-gam...