A Demonstration of Blabrecs, an AI-Based Wordgame

Abstract

Blabrecs is an AI-based modification to the popular wordgame Scrabble. In Blabrecs, English dictionary words may not be played; instead, players may only play nonsense words that are approved by a classifier trained on a list of English dictionary words. Gameplay therefore revolves around inventing plausibly English-sounding nonsense words and learning how to fool the classifier. In this paper, we briefly introduce our design goals for Blabrecs; describe the process by which Blabrecs was designed; and present two distinct implementations of the game's AI judge.