Welcome!
Welcome to the Verse! Bot Tester. This presents the results from running the bots against 1000 random games.
Details, please
Games like this enable many different strategies. This page assesses the differences between different playstyles, and attempts to determine which playstyle is best.
The bot strategies are presented below:
- Clique: Bot designed to pick a path to cover as many letters as possible. For instance, the words "fjord", "gucks", "nymph", "vibex", and "waltz" cover every letter of the alphabet except Q, in 5 guesses. This means by the 6th guess, the bot should have all the information it needs to get the answer right.
- Eliminator: Bot designed to make guesses that eliminate as many words from the list as possible, narrowing the list until it guesses right or runs out of guesses.
- FRNG: Fully-randomized guesses. Picks a word out of the entire word list at random.
- PRNG: Partially-randomized guesses. Picks a word out of the entire word list at random, utilizes the clues, and narrows down the guesses.
Strategies are assessed based on number of guesses and percentage correct. Minimized guesses and maximized percentage correct are ideal. The words that bots got wrong in the experiment will also be tracked.
Results
The results from running this experiment are presented in the bar chart below!
This bar chart represents the number of games correct. In other words, how many words out of 1,000 did the bot get correct?
This final bar chart shows the average guesses each bot made across those 1,000 games. Lower is better, and it seems that Eliminator is the most capable bot tested.
These results demonstrate that the best bot, Eliminator, is not only utilizes the fewest number of guesses, but also achieved a 98% accuracy rate across all games.