Rog-O-Matic is a bot developed in 1981 to play and win the

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'' Rogue'', by four graduate students in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh:

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, Leonard Hamey, Guy Jacobson and

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. Described as a "belligerent

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", Rog-O-Matic performs well when tested against expert ''Rogue'' players, even winning the game. Because all information in ''Rogue'' is communicated to the player via

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text, Rog-O-Matic has automatic access to the same information a human player has. The program is still the subject of some scholarly interest; a 2005 paper said:

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* * {{cite web , url= https://britzl.github.io/roguearchive/ , title= Rogue Archive , website=

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