Jotto AI progress

"Jotto: Guess My Word" is already complete and "Jotto: Guess Your Word" is nearly complete. Mostly I've been reading through someone else's code and writing it my own way once I understand it. After all, this is a learning exercise. Another day or so of messing about and tightening up, and then it will be on to the truly fun and original part, Evil Jotto. I'm having all sorts of ideas for directions to go with it, and realizing that the scope of this project could easily expand to the limits of whatever processor I run it on. Whee!

Ironically, there is probably less than no demand out there for this AI to exist. The author of the "simple AI" I reproduced for the above programs was disappointed by his program because it beat him so badly it wasn't fun anymore. From the few discussions I've seen on the net it appears that the puzzling world at large doesn't know that the traditional Jotto strategy of trying to isolate letters SUCKS. This is *why* the space I'm moving into has been left empty.

However, there's the fun of the chase, and learning Perl, and jotto-geeking with queue, and the possibility of duelling AI's, and maybe an interesting article when I'm done. It's also beating out "playing computer games" for habitat in my schedule, which is a good thing.