moorthy@RPICS.CSNET (Moorthy) (01/30/86)
We have developed a computer program to play hangman by itself. Here the computer both guesses a word and tries to find what the guessed word is. This program is a variation of hangman available under unix 4.2. The program to guess the words is partly rule based (these rules are obtained by talking to an "expert") and partly searches the dictionary judiciously. The programs are written in C and uses system calls to AWK for searching various subsets of dictionary. We have tested the program fairly exhaustively and it plays reasonably well. If anyone is interested in knowing more about the program, you could contact moorthy@rpics. The developers of this program are Patrick Harubin, a junior in Computer Science at R.P.I and myself. Krishnamoorthy Department of Computer Science R.P.I., Troy NY 12181.