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![]() To save time in the first seconds of the game, you can not really think about the course and just repeat the combination "left-right-up-down". The "correct" game lasts 20-30 minutes, but for those who move tiles at random, the field is filled much faster. If you win-set the amount of 2048-you can continue the game. The game ends in defeat when there are no free cells on the field and there are no identical numbers standing next to each other that can be connected. A move is considered made if at least one tile has changed its position. If three or more tiles of the same value are placed in a row, they stick together in the direction of movement.Īfter each move, a new tile with a value of "2" (with a 90% probability) or "4" (with a 10% probability) appears in a random cell. For example, if you touch "8" and "8", you will get a tile "16". If the same numbers are connected at the same time, a tile of a larger value is formed, equal to the sum of the connected tiles. By pressing the arrows on the keyboard or moving your fingers on the touch screen, you can move all the tiles on the playing field to one of the 4 sides once per turn. The playing field has the shape of a 4x4 square, and consists of 16 mobile tiles with numbers. It's not as simple as it may seem, but it's not so difficult that you can't handle it. In the game, you need to connect tiles with the same value to create new tiles with larger numbers. In 2048, random winnings are excluded - only those who are able to focus on the task are lucky here.
![]() ![]() The only heuristic I’ve tested that has made it into the final build of WordSmith is one that is conservative when playing good tiles. I had started developing this capacity in the program, but there’s always the possibility of better heuristics, so this can give human players a strategic advantage. A heuristic is a fancy CS way of saying “rule of thumb”, meaning a simplified rule that will tend to increase performance when applied. Scrabble is a lot of luck and often the technically best word isn’t considerably higher scoring than one an advanced player would pick. I’ve beaten it roughly 10% of the time in the matches I’ve played. This doesn’t mean WordSmith is impossible to beat, however. I’ve built the AI to give up after 15 seconds (which is why the blue bar doesn’t always finish), but at least on my computer it does retrieve the highest possible scoring word over 95% of the time. What it is actually doing is trying every combination of letters it can play and keeping track of which moves are both valid and score enough points. When playing the AI, you’ll notice a blue progress bar as the AI “thinks”. It evaluates this not only based on how many points a particular move gives, but also by using heuristics to avoid technically higher-scoring moves which are probably detrimental in the long-run. WordSmith plays by searching the board for all possible tile placements and then chooses the best one. It was a fun project, not only because I enjoy Scrabble, but because the problem was interesting enough to require clever algorithmic tricks, but not so tricky I couldn’t do it part-time over three weeks while on vacation in Paris. Not only because then I could play a game I enjoy without needing a ready opponent, but also because a strong computer opponent would teach me more about the game. Even a perfect Scrabble player may still lose due to unfortunate letters or an unlikely countermove.īecause of this, I wanted to see if I could make a computer that plays Scrabble. Unlike chess, AI-researchers’ favorite game, luck and outside knowledge play a role. The game requires a mixture of vocabulary, strategy, pattern-recognition and luck. If CS or Scrabble don’t interest you at all, feel free to skip this article, as I’ll be back next week with my normal writing. While it’s not tremendously complex, it does show a little of the computer science knowledge I picked up through the MIT Challenge. Visit the download page to try it out.įor the rest of this article, I’m going to explain how the program works. I’ve made the project free and open-source, so anyone can play it and also see how it works. The result was WordSmith, a program that lets you play the game Scrabble against a computer. 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