wheelbarrow is a bot that plays JKLM's Bomb Party mode. The bot was designed to be somewhat intelligent: it chooses words to maximize its bonus lives, tries to perserve words that could be useful for it to acquire more lives in the future, and has a human mode, mimicing a human while not compromising on its ability to win games.
The name was chosen as a reference to the British Wheelbarrow robot, a remote controlled device for defusing and disposing of bombs.
wheelbarrow needs the following dependencies installed on your system:
- Python 3.8+
- Chromium v90
The bot works by spawning a Chromium browser and controlling it via Selenium. In order to acquire Selenium and other Python dependencies, it is recommended you first set up a virtualenv inside the top level folder after cloning like such:
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Before running it, then install all required Python packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt
In order to run the bot, you can use the following command from the root folder:
python wheelbarrow <XXXX>
where XXXX is the 4-letter JKLM room code. By default, human mode is disabled,
making the bot type in its responses instantly. You can enable human mode
by passing in the --human flag.
These are known limitations that may or may not be addressed in the future:
- The bot only works with Chromium v90 on Linux.
- The bot can only join rooms that have been created and cannot create rooms on its own.
- If a room is not set to the Bomb Party mode, it will crash.
- It only works on English Bomb Party rooms.
- The corpus is fixed and the bot has no memory. If it encounters a word not in JKLM's dictionary, it will not persist this information between usages. Likewise, it does not track new words that are not in the bot's current dictionary.
- The English corpus it uses is not fully expansive. There are words in JKLM that the bot is not aware of.