Turtle Soup Generator

Situation puzzle is a popular text-based interactive game. In such a game, there is a moderator and a player, or a group of players. The moderator has a complete story in mind and provides the player(s) with the beginning and the ending of a story; the player(s), on the other hand, are expected to figure out the step-by-step details of story development by asking the moderator ”yes-or-no” questions about the story. The game would end either when the player(s) figure out the complete story line or when a preset number of ques- tions are asked before complete the story. The challenging and intriguing part of this game is that the player(s) need to come up with a story with only the beginning and the ending while also make sure the logical relations in the story align with commonsense.

We propose to build a system (TurtleSoup) that not only automatically generate high-quality story for a situation puz- zle game but also handles the job of the moderator to in- teract with player(s). With minimum human intervention, TurtleSoup is capable of providing comprehensive interac- tive experience that can be entertaining.