CoupVisor: Strategy Optimization by Round and Challenge Decision Support

This paper presents CoupVisor, a decision-support system for the hidden-information card game Coup. It addresses two questions: what a player should do on each turn, and when a player should challenge an opponent's claim. The system is built around a single description of game events, which is shared across manual play, replay of recorded games, simulation, belief tracking, advisor recommendations, and learning-based policies. CoupVisor estimates the chance that a claim is truthful by combining how likely each role is with how many cards the claimant still holds, which corrects a case where the very first claim of a game was flagged as suspicious despite no evidence. We compare a rule-fol...

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