FYI: http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/ if they knock down the Mickey Mouse extension, Scrabble goes with it as they're the same age and...
Alfred Butts died in 1993, so even if the Sonny Bono act is repealed it will mean the Scrabble copyright expires in about 41 years from now. Of course, my...
I am a believer in sims in that I think they give a very good estimation of the best move... However, I have one question. From what I understand about how...
John Babina
john@...
May 8, 2002 3:53 pm
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Hello, I'm new to this list and new to this community, and my programming background is limited to the HTML-ColdFusion-JavaScript-SQL area, so please forgive ...
... I've got several files on my computers, including some that are supposed to be OSPD3 and OWL (or whatever the letters are) and SOWPODS, but I've never ...
AmazingMazeMan@...
May 10, 2002 11:45 pm
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Hi Following the clabbers thread on uk-scrabble, is there a computer opponent on the net yet? I remember Mark Watkins' wordgame magazine had one of the...
Is a copy of the words from this dictionary available on the Internet somewhere? I know it exists, but the last time I tried to obtain a copy of it (maybe 10...
Hi I decide to do a stand-alone Scrabble game for my programming class using Visual Basic. Anyone have any suggesting of how to start? And how could I set up a...
Andrew, your website with the javascript board generator has disappeared from http://www.ascook.fsnet.co.uk/scrabble/viewer.html I can't find your new homepage...
Hello My name is Tim and I am not a programmer. I am a self published game inventor. I am writing to this list because I created a deck of cards called Alpha...
I assume that the rules for this thread is to find the highest scoring possible play for each move in a game sequence: 1. Ignoring whether or not any play sets...
Steven Gordon
sagordon2@...
Jul 21, 2002 1:45 am
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... I already have that code running on a cgi at my web site. I won't say where exactly though until the human effort is over :-) G...
Here is a quick way to compute the frequency of hands from a bag of tiles. These numbers seem to match with J Chen's work. I got my start from Graham's work...
Try this, it's very crude, and in BASIC, and slow, but it looks like it works. I tested it on 3, EEV, and a 30 character string, and got the same answer with...
AmazingMazeMan@...
Jul 26, 2002 9:01 pm
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... OK, I've had time now to have a look at this and I need a little clarification please: I checked "AEINORT" and sure enough it gives a frequency of 1679616,...
Hi... I'm new to this board, so let me introduce myself. My name is Mark, and I'm a network administrator/web designer. I also do some programming, and have...
Hi again... Here's the compression/searching method I used for my Boggle solver program. I'd be very interested to hear about other ways that people have...
I have a Java app I wrote for this (also for Boggle) that makes a tree like you've described (a DAWG) and then finds all identical subtrees and relinks all...
... I also use (for a cryptogram solver) a trie (I would not call it a DAWG, that describes a specific representation of a trie). But instead of using 26 bits...
David Eppstein
eppstein@...
Sep 17, 2002 12:28 am
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... I've written something similar, but in C++, and it only takes 2 seconds to build a tree with it... (from a sorted 248519 word list) It uses a data...
Falk Hueffner
falk.hueffner@...
Sep 17, 2002 10:13 am
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In my 1994 paper (S.A. Gordon, A faster Scrabble move generation algorithm, Software Practice and Experience 24 (2) (1994) 219-232.), I presented a ...
Steven Gordon
sagordon2@...
Sep 17, 2002 12:08 pm
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... If you were cramped for memory, looks like you could cram the whole thing into 4 bytes (32 bits)... At a minimum you could mix the two booleans into the...
John Babina
john@...
Sep 17, 2002 1:38 pm
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... Uhm, 8 + 22 + 1 + 1 = 32... so it is exactly 4 bytes. BTW, this layout isn't really my idea, I found it somewhere else, but I don't remember where... :( --...
Falk Hueffner
falk.hueffner@...
Sep 17, 2002 1:41 pm
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... thing ... Yes, I was well aware that 8 + 22 + 1 + 1 = 32, that is why I suggested it. What I was referring to is that depending on your compiler or options...
John Babina
john@...
Sep 17, 2002 1:46 pm
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... Really?! Which compilers do that? John -- John Chew (poslfit on MD/WD/PD) jjchew@... * http://www.math.utoronto.ca/jjchew...
... Graham Toal presented a nice portable version of DAWG construction and printing etc. a long time ago (http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/dawgutils/). He used 4...
Laeuter
laeuter@...
Sep 17, 2002 2:09 pm
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... I've written several versions of my lexicon data structure. The move generation algorithm is Steve Gordon's and I use his GADDAG, but the method of which...
... I don't suppose anybody's done this in perl? I've been thinking of putting up a website using CGIs to allow Crosswords (my PalmOS Scrabble-like game)...
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