http://www.gtoal.com/athome/scrabble/index.html This page has a large but not exhaustive list of wordgames, plus a good source code archive. Contributions to...
43
Sherrie Saint John
saint@xxxxx.xxxx
Jan 11, 2000 3:43 am
I received this message from onelist about a planned list delay. Consider yourself warned that things will be backed up temporarily. cheers, sherrie ...
44
Graham Toal ...
Dec 6, 1957 12:13 am
If anyone has any information about a 1938 game called Wordy that is very similar to Scrabble, please mail me. There is *nothing* about this game on the net,...
45
Graham Toal ...
Jan 4, 1958 10:07 pm
If it isn't appropriate for me to mention this here so often (ie once every month or two) just complain and I'll stop :-) Since the last time I mentioned it,...
46
Sherrie Saint John
saint@...
Feb 17, 2000 1:44 am
Dear list members: An important onelist message has been modified and is pasted in below. cheers, sherrie saint@onelist.com cg/cgp/wgp list moderator (or...
47
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jean-charles.meyrigna...
Mar 5, 2000 5:15 pm
Hi ! I'm new to this list, and would like to speak about some wordgames. The first one is a grid filling contest that is held by a french game magazine. This...
48
Gordon
SAGordon@...
Mar 5, 2000 5:44 pm
Jean-Charles, I recall a researcher in Australia proving that solving similar puzzles was NP-Complete in the early 1990s. I cannot recall his name, nor...
49
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Mar 5, 2000 11:33 pm
I messed up my mailer today so here are two replies that I'm reposting - G. ... The wordsquare programs you've been looking at are highly optimised for the...
50
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Mar 9, 2000 4:53 pm
I came across this page today and do not remember seeing it mentioned on this list before. The author is on one of the related lists (crossword-games-pro):...
51
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Mar 11, 2000 6:55 am
Well, when I say 'new', they're new to me. Although I'd seen the "programmer of the month" competition some years ago, I hadn't looked at it recently, so when...
52
Sherrie Saint John
saint@...
Mar 22, 2000 3:16 am
Dear list subscribers, A message from onelist: The ONElist Web site will be offline for scheduled maintenance from 9 PM until 10 PM Pacific Standard Time on...
53
Sherrie Saint John
saint@...
May 2, 2000 9:25 pm
Hello all, A few announcements: -onelist.com has been absorbed by egroups.com. -For the time being, you can type either @onelist.com *or* @egroups.com when...
54
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
graph@...
May 14, 2000 9:45 am
Hello, Some time ago, I sent a message explaining I'd like to find a method to fill a grid with some constraints on a contest. This contest is held once a year...
55
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
May 29, 2000 3:42 am
I wrote my first javascript program over the last 24 hours, and although I'm relatively pleased with how it looks for a first attempt, I'm starting to hit a...
56
John Babina III
babina@...
May 29, 2000 3:57 am
What you can do is store the variables in a HIDDEN form variable -- have a hidden form variable and when you have people place tiles on the javascript board,...
57
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
May 29, 2000 4:58 am
... The cgi side I understand OK, it's the Javascript I'm having problems with: specifically - how do you do what you suggest above. Let's say there is a...
58
John Babina III
babina@...
May 29, 2000 5:06 am
I don't remember off hand but its something like: FORM_NAME.HIDDEN_VAR_NAME = "xyz"; Check out the O'Reilly book on Javascript, thats a good start, or go to ...
59
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
May 29, 2000 5:16 am
... Good call - I found just the thing in one of the sources I had been cribbing from, but hadn't recognised it for what it was until now: function voyelle()...
60
Jim Geary
jaygee@...
Jun 2, 2000 5:47 pm
(cc'd to wgp to test) wordgame-programmers@egroups.com Jim Geary jimgeary.com - something to bore everyone...
61
John Babina III
babina@...
Jun 2, 2000 6:09 pm
Hi all, I am interested in simulation for Scrabble and was wondering if anyone could explain an algorithm for it. I have a rough idea of how it works, but if...
62
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 2, 2000 7:33 pm
... This answer may not be the one you want!: although my own Scrabble program didn't do lookahead, I did get a chance once to look at one that did, (Richard,...
63
John Babina III
babina@...
Jun 3, 2000 6:06 am
... So, let's assume we have three available moves (obviously there are 100's of moves but just for this example) and we are going to do a "half ply": HELLO...
64
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 3, 2000 7:09 am
... No - you take the *highest* of the opponents best moves. Then compare against the highest replies to your other two plays. Of those three highest scores,...
65
John Babina III
babina@...
Jun 3, 2000 6:24 pm
Could a computer make an assumption or adjustments to determine what is a more likely rack an opponent has? for example... if you made a play, the computer...
66
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 3, 2000 6:57 pm
... Yes, you can, but I suspect the value of it is marginal until very close to the endgame. Also you're making an assumption that you can exactly simulate...
67
John Babina III
babina@...
Jun 3, 2000 7:16 pm
My code is actually already separate -- problem is that it relies on global information and you can't pass around or have it calculate two different games at...
68
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 3, 2000 8:09 pm
... That was the big drawback of mine: no flags at all to customise the playing behaviour: it was written for competition play, where you just want to win....
69
RichardHooker
richardh@...
Jun 5, 2000 8:22 am
I think Graham mentioned my name a few postings ago. I'm still here just a bit quiet. I've also had several goes at genericising my scrabble engine interface...
70
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 7, 2000 1:42 am
I did find this short comment on simulation strategies (Maven). http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~jonathan/Grad/pena/node54.html G...
71
Graham Toal
gtoal@...
Jun 8, 2000 7:31 pm
If you're good at HTML tweaks, could you have a look at this page please and tell me if you can think of a better way to code the underlines so they look more...
