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## A script that played arithmetic games

How I Started Building with Code
Source ID early:simple-automation
Original https://www.henryw.me/#/early#simple-automation

In my third year of high school, our school ran online mental-arithmetic and 24-point games. I built a script that recognised the questions on screen, solved them algorithmically, and entered the answers automatically. Each answer brought up another question, and the script kept going until the game timer ended.

The recordings below show how screen recognition, a solver and simulated input work together to complete the automation loop.