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by mstepniowski 4980 days ago
Implementing a Letterpress cheater in Python took me around 10 minutes. Computers are very fast nowadays: https://gist.github.com/3968275

There is no need for a whole game engine if you want nothing more than to know the best possible word to play each turn. It will be enough to win with 99% of people. If you want to win a Letterpress AI tournament, you would of course need to look at alpha-beta and other algorithms.