This is a demonstration of an AI bot that plays the card game No Thanks!.
The bot uses a variant of the Monte Carlo tree search algorithm. Code for the bot is available on Github.
Note that while the rules for No Thanks! advise players to keep their chips hidden from their opponents, nothing stops a player from keeping track of other players' chip counts. Therefore, in this implementation, I allow the bots to observe and rely on all players' chip counts.
Jerome Williams, 2023-24