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Strategy and structure in Codenames: Comparing human and GPT-4 gameplay

2026-02-25

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<p>In Codenames, a "spymaster" must solve an open-ended task of generating a one-word clue that will get their teammates--the "guessers"--to select the intended subset of conceptually related words, while avoiding the other unintended words on the board (Chvátil, 2015). This particular combination of conceptual understanding and strategic coordination with other players makes Codenames a particularly useful target...

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Literature Corpus work: bbc305c3-9299-5b86-98d0-9e6db82ddf38
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6gfy9_v1

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