Improvisational Games as a Benchmark for Social Intelligence of AI Agents: The Case of Connections

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence [Submitted on 31 Mar 2026] Improvisational Games as a Benchmark for Social Intelligence of AI Agents: The Case of Connections Gaurav Rajesh Parikh, Angikar Ghosal We formally introduce a improvisational wordplay game called Connections to explore reasoning capabilities of AI agents. Playing Connections combines skills in knowledge retrieval, summarization and awareness of cognitive states of other agents. We show how the game serves as a good benchmark for social intelligence abilities of language model based agents that go beyond the agents' own memory and deductive reasoning and also involve gauging the understanding capabilities of other agents. Finally, we show how through communication with other agents in a constrained environment, AI agents must demonstrate social awareness and intelligence in games involving collaboration. Comments: this https URL Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) Cite as: arXiv:2604.00284 [cs.AI]   (or arXiv:2604.00284v1 [cs.AI] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.00284 Focus to learn more Journal reference: https://wordplay-workshop.github.io/wordplay2024/pdfs/16.pdf Submission history From: Gaurav Rajesh Parikh [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:16:25 UTC (67 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-04 Change to browse by: cs cs.MA References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)