I have a question about the log2 format as documented at http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~jac/acdir/log2.html If you play out, then your opponent's tiles are...
If you play out, then you get twice the value of your opponent's tiles, which are listed to justify that score. If neither player plays out, then they lose...
I did something stupid and trashed the current version of my word games site :-( Has anyone saved a copy of this page since the last time I posted an update...
I have it! :-)))) I have been able to put bits of the file together from different sources, and the final size happens to match to the byte the size that the...
Hello everybody, This is my first email and I am really glad to join a list of high level word game programmers/thinkers. I discovered the list through the...
i have been looking for arabic scrabble for about 6 months and i really need to find it. this is to help out my friend in the marines thats an arabic...
http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/ You can get the bootleg board on eBay or the Spears one directly from Spears UK. There is no computer version...
(Appologies if this topic has been covered before....) In the early days of the PalmOS platform space was at a premium, and so when I started producing...
I posted about this a while ago (> year). Out of 8,578,606 games (I ran 10,000,000, but I later determined some games were bad): win avg 447.0554066710 win...
... To the computer player's, the question is how many point does it miss by not having access to the larger wordlist. Play an 8-letter-limited player against ...
I ran the MSQ program (written by Martin Laeuter) on the empty 8x8 board, with a french lexicon based on ODS3 (44,565 words). The program found exactly 68...
... According to http://rec-puzzles.org/sol.pl/language/english/spelling/sets.of.words/squar es there are no known English 9x9 double word squares (the type...
David Eppstein
eppstein@...
Sep 2, 2003 7:51 pm
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Could I ask you folks to do a gross-error-check on these results please? The test board looks like this: #..-...#...-N.# .+...=...=.MIZ. ..+...-.-..UPO. ...
I finally re-did this computation with the latest bugfixes applied to my code. Here are the results I got with TWL vs. SOWPODS: The word length distribution...
... Actually I made some algorithmic improvements and got it down to 7 seconds for the above :-) (as well as bringing the memory down by 25Mb) I haven't yet...
... Yes. Parallelization would be trivial. On 32 processors, the process of move generation over 2M racks should only take about 5 or 6 minutes. I'm not...
... sharing ... versions ... Of course I'm sharing it. As if you had to ask :-) I want to clean up the code and put it back into separate modules (currently...
For your delectation: http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/scrabble_solver/global_analysis/rackgen.c.html Not quite a textbook lesson in how to do coroutines in C...
... 0.23s - Much better :-) 0.220u 0.010s 0:00.23 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 142pf+0w The source is ready for a quick peek. Remember this is a weekend hack job, not...
I hacked up a little program which does this: It takes each 7-letter word in twl, then for each word, it removes each letter one at a time leaving 6 letters. ...
... I think it's interesting that evaluating for bingos seems to have increased the rank of some undesireable letters (J, Q, U) with respect to the early...
Graham suggested I detail this a bit on-list, so here goes... I've been tinkering off and on (for two years or so) with all of the Scrabble-related algorithms...
For what it's worth, I have a mature framework written in C++ with the same goals, but thusfar only a few eyes have seen it. This may change in the future,...
... How tedious would it be to code the low-level routines in ANSI C rather than C#/VB.NET? That way, you could get a whole lot of language bindings...
... Of course I'd like to hear what is included in "and more". :) ... I did, as I believe you suggest, expect a set of minimal interfaces that would be defined...
... That's not a bad idea, except that I'm over five years out of ANSI C. :) Given SWIG, however, I will try to write more in C# for the reverse. dot-NET (or...
I'm glad to announce the availability of an improved version of Martin Läuter's MSQ (crossword generator). Graham Toal kindly archived the program: ...
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