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
598
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: ...
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 ...
Original Text: plaintive Deciphered Text: christian ... /U ... Urban Nilsson, http://bonk.nu/blog To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion...
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 =>...
I'm working on a completely internationalised scrabble engine. Does anyone have any suggestions for extending log2 format for other languages and character...
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? -...
Laeuter
laeuter@...
Oct 13, 2003 1:02 pm
621
Some rule sets allow the second player to have an extra move if the first player plays out first. Brian [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
sheppardco@...
Oct 13, 2003 8:15 pm
622
... As many subscribers know, I developed the 'log2' and 'log' formats in consultation with James Cherry for use on my DOoM servers ...
Has any consideration been given to developing an XML game description? I'd be interested in participating. It might start looking like this; lots omitted or...
Just to report the discovery of the first 9x8 grid in french. In France, it's considered as the Holy Graal by crossword makers (verbicrucistes in french) ! ...
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