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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...
brittanyspohr
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Aug 7, 2003
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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...
Graham Toal
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Aug 8, 2003
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(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...
Eric House
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Aug 10, 2003
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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...
Brian Wickman
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Aug 11, 2003
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... 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 ...
Warwick Allison
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Aug 13, 2003
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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...
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
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Sep 2, 2003
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... 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
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Sep 2, 2003
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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. ...
Graham Toal
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Sep 14, 2003
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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...
Brian Wickman
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Sep 15, 2003
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... 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...
Graham Toal
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Sep 15, 2003
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... 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...
Brian Wickman
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Sep 16, 2003
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... 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...
Graham Toal
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Sep 16, 2003
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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...
Graham Toal
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Sep 17, 2003
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... 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...
Graham Toal
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Sep 17, 2003
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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. ...
Graham Toal
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Sep 18, 2003
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... 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...
Matt Lavallee
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Sep 18, 2003
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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...
Matt Lavallee
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Sep 19, 2003
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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,...
Brian Wickman
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Sep 19, 2003
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... 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...
Martin DeMello
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Sep 19, 2003
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... 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...
Matt Lavallee
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Sep 19, 2003
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... 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...
Matt Lavallee
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Sep 19, 2003
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I'm glad to announce the availability of an improved version of Martin Läuter's MSQ (crossword generator). Graham Toal kindly archived the program: ...
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
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Sep 21, 2003
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I've written a cryptogram solver in C that seems to be working reasonably well. Source code and a CGI front-end available at ...
Ram
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Sep 22, 2003
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Thank you for this precision ! Indeed, you previously gave some more infos in swedisch here: http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/skrabbel/2003-April/001158.html ...
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
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Sep 22, 2003
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Nice Scrabble game for such a small package. (23393 bytes of perl, with comments.) By Brian White <bcwhite@...>, dated 2-Jan-02; add-your- own...
Steven Alexander
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Sep 27, 2003
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Original Text: plaintive Deciphered Text: christian ... /U ... Urban Nilsson, http://bonk.nu/blog To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion...
Urban Nilsson
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Oct 3, 2003
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for even more fun, try feeding in names... interesting character traits might be revealed in the deciphered text :-) -nrk. ... ...
Ram
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Oct 4, 2003
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Back in the mists of time (c. '85) when I wrote a cryptogram solver, I had put in the names of all the US presidents. Some I remmeber were JAMES MADISON =>...
Michael Turniansky
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Oct 7, 2003
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I'm working on a completely internationalised scrabble engine. Does anyone have any suggestions for extending log2 format for other languages and character...
Graham Toal
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Oct 13, 2003
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Hi all, ... After having seen http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/alpha/comm_log.html I can spot essentially two issues: 1. What should be specified? -...
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