A small robot that plays the iPhone game Word Hunt by itself. A camera reads the letter board, the software finds the words, and a robotic finger swipes them on screen faster than any human.

A robot that plays Word Hunt on its own-powered by a jury-rigged 3D printer, computer vision, and distributed intelligence. We combined mechanical automation, edge AI, and language models to create a system that not only finds the best words on the board but also teaches you what they mean. Our project automates the process of solving Word Hunt, a gamepigeon (iMessages) word game, using a fully integrated hardware + software pipeline: Capture. A photo of the Word Hunt board is taken. Recognize. An Edge AI accelerator runs OCR locally to extract letters from the board in real time. Detect. Using a DFS with a trie, the system searches the board for all valid words.