I love playing board games. I love machine learning. I love Rust. So why not combine them and do something really fun? So I ran a word vector analogy query and I got back:

machine learning + board games - Rust = Codenames 

So let’s implement Codenames in Rust. It’s a simple game. There are two teams, each having one Spymaster and several field operatives. There is a shared 5x5 board, which represents a map to the field operatives, which are hidden. Each spot on the map has a word on it. The spymasters must give clues to the operatives so that they can find the enemy operatives and take them out.

In this post, we will implement a simple model for the game, using dummy agents. In a future post, we will implement some smarter agents, with word vectors.

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