“Word Golf”, Eric Xia2021-12 (neural net, text game, dark knowledge (human))⁠:

[Word Golf is a puzzle game similar to Word ladder+Six Degrees of Wikipedia: given a starting word like “dragon” and a grid of ‘similar’ possible words (near by in the GloVe graph of word embeddings), the player tries to navigate to a target word like “tower” in as few words as possible.

This requires intuiting similarity of meaning & dimensions of descriptions in English to guess what will make progress towards the target without leaving one trapped in a semantic niche with no way out.

It is a creative use of word embeddings, like “Alpha (A translation of Genesis 1)” or Entendrepreneur: a “Portmanteau & Rhyme Generator” using word embeddings (Simon2018) or Semantle, which demonstrates dark knowledge and “Toward A Universal Law Of Generalization For Psychological Science”, Shepard1987, like asking people which is more likely, Big Foot or Nessie; other game examples include Mysterium or Chronology or GeoGuessr, Chronophoto. cf. “calibration training”, Pimantle]