the one of The New York Times, It's not exactly easy. In fact, the resolution rate drops below 50 percent some days. To help highlight where players are going wrong, a new bot is employing ai to They are used for the most common mistakes every day.
For the uninitiated, Connections is a logic and word game that the leading newspaper launched last year. Every day, you are presented with a grid of 16 words that you must divide into four categories. There is only one solution, and after four mistakes, the game is over. There are a few tricks, though. There are often red herrings aplenty, and frequently at least five viable answers for a group.
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After winning or losing each day's game, you can stroll to the As with the bot for WordYou'll see how well you did compared to other players and receive a skill score of 99. This is based primarily on how many mistakes you make, but you'll receive extra credit for solving the more difficult purple and blue categories first.
After looking at the skill score and other details (like whether a false lead caught you off guard), the ai feature comes into play. This will highlight the most common incorrect guesses for that day. It will also try to guess a description for the pool that players had in mind. So, for an incorrect guess of gutter, bowl, alley, and lane, the bot might believe you were looking for a list of bowling-related terms. Here’s a real-life example from a recent game where I made that very mistake. Alley and lane were actually types of streets.
However, your own failed guesses may not show up in the bot. This is because there are about 2.6 million different ways to group each grid. Note that while you don't need a Times account to play ConnectionsYou'll need to log in to one to use the bot and track your scores.
Another interesting thing about the bot is that it is the first time that the Times' The newsroom will periodically publish ai-generated texts in English. Before publication, the newspaper's editors will ai-generated responses;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”> and you can edit them to improve style and clarity. That said, the Times points out that “there is no way to use mathematics or even artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:8;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas”> to solve the game reliably”, so you still can’t use tools like ChatGPT to cheat.
