LLM vs LLM: Codenames Tournament. A mini multi-agent competition among 3… | by Yennie Jun | Oct, 2024

A mini multi-agent competition among 3 different LLM agents

This article was originally posted on Art Fish Intelligence.

LLMs are good at many things, and one of those things is playing games. People have used LLMs to play all sorts of games such as Minecraft, Chess, murder mystery games, Werewolf, and the NYT Connections puzzle. (For a more comprehensive list, you can refer to this survey.)

Most of the examples above show LLMs playing games either against themselves or against humans. But, how well do LLMs play games against other LLMs?

In this article, I show the results of three different LLMs competing against each other in the popular board game, Codenames, which challenges players to find patterns among seemingly unrelated words.

For those unfamiliar with it, Codenames is a board game created by Vladimír Chvátil. The game pits two teams (typically Red and Blue) against each other.

Each team has a spymaster who gives single-word clues that are meant to point to multiple words on a 5×5 board of words. The other players on the team must then guess their team’s words while avoiding words that belong to the opposing team. Only the…