[furyofantares]

Does it?

I thought it would. But I've spent a fair bit of effort both using embeddings and also using prompts to GPT4, as well as combinations of the two approaches, to try to make a good spymaster for Codenames with essentially zero success.

I wonder if something like https://wordassociations.net/en might be better for it than embeddings.

[noxvilleza]

I was playing a bit with embeddings in 2021. I'd played codenames online with friends in lockdown and we often had interesting boards we'd talk about, so when I saw papers like this (https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05885) I looked into the topic. I found the suggested clues were very good, and there were some 'clue scoring' functions which correlated with the actual best spymasters. Wasn't scientifically rigorous as OPs post, but I would say it was good.