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I was in a toy store today and noticed Super Scrabble for the first time. Does anyone know the board layout and letter distribution for this game? I looked...
Patrick Niesink
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Nov 29, 2004
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... I just saw this game in a Barnes & Noble today, and copied down the letter distribution from a picture on the back of the box: A - 16 F - 4 K - 2 P...
Michael W Thelen
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Dec 5, 2004
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Hi, So now the information on the Super Scrabble board is complete: <http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/52794> Q 2 T 2 T 2 Q D 3 D D 3 D D 4...
Martin Läuter
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Dec 5, 2004
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The racks appear to still contain 7 tiles; It might be fun to have 8 or 9 tiles per rack and still have to empty the rack to earn the 50 point bonus....
sfman2k
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Dec 15, 2004
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744
Just to mention a new programming contest about crosswords: http://dinsights.com/POTM/XWORDS/ Deadline: February 28th 2005....
Jean-Charles Meyrignac
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Jan 4, 2005
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Here's something I've been thinking about, as this sort of data analysis is what I do in my astronomy research: One way to get a world ratings system is to do...
Nick Ball
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Mar 30, 2005
9:58 pm
746
Hi all, We are trying to develop word games, including scrabble type games for literacy students. We are using Flash MX 2004 and Actionscript 2.0. We are...
pw1348353
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Apr 22, 2005
3:50 pm
747
I will be looking into this also as I have just starting working in Flash converting my educational games. Perhaps we can share ideas. My games need a ...
Mark Kolb
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Apr 22, 2005
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748
http://www.dse.nl/~torch/scrabble/...
Graham Toal
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Apr 23, 2005
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At <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dchiang/scrabble.pdf> and <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dchiang/scrabble.ps> is a copy of the Tournament Word List 1998 that is...
Steven Alexander
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Apr 28, 2005
11:51 am
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... Note that it contains only the words of up to eight letters in that lexicon. ... Can local optimization fail in this case to reach a global optimum? I...
John J. Chew III
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Apr 28, 2005
2:35 pm
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... No, because it loses the information that AA is acceptable. -- Abraham Thomas Princeton, NJ....
Abraham Thomas
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Apr 28, 2005
2:50 pm
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... Good point. AA AAH ed ing s AALII s AALS AAR- dvark dwolf gh rgh rghh AAS vogel then? John -- John Chew (poslfit on MD) * jjchew@... *...
John J. Chew III
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Apr 28, 2005
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... Nope, now you're missing AAL. Instead of "AALII s AALS" I suggest "AAL ii iis s" for the same length and adding AAL. Also, "AA s svogel" is better than "AA...
Abraham Thomas
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Apr 28, 2005
3:57 pm
754
My suggestion for getting both start and end compression is AAs svogel/s AAHed ing s AALii/s s AAR-dvark/s dwolf gh rgh/h ABAck mpere/s s se/d/s sing te/d/s...
Alan Frank
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Apr 28, 2005
4:34 pm
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Alan Frank << a suboptimal example for illustrative purposes only: COLoration/s 2blind/ness 2ectal 3d 2fast >> Make that 3do instead of 3d? I was wondering why...
Sam Kantimathi
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Apr 28, 2005
4:42 pm
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Not 3do (though perhaps I should have written COLorado 3tion/s 2blind/ness 2ectal 3d 2fast) because by that point, I'm up to COLore+. Which of course only...
Alan Frank
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Apr 28, 2005
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Subject: Re: [wgp] compressed paper dictionary I'll try this again... WGP has been dead for so long that I never realized I hadn't set it up to let me post...
John O'Laughlin
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Apr 28, 2005
9:51 pm
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This was discussed yesterday on WGP and I said I'd post my stuff when I finished, so here it is: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~o-laughl/compdict/ For everybody: ...
John O'Laughlin
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Apr 29, 2005
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I like this approach. Using this, the original example should have placed a "-" after ABDI, ABDOM, ABDUC, and ABE. As it stands, the original example...
sfman2k
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Apr 30, 2005
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Hello, ... Thanks, John, for sharing your code for the compressed paper dictionary. I think I've got the optimisation right now. The approach is as follows: *...
Martin Läuter
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May 2, 2005
10:23 am
761
I'll work on making this easier to use in the near future, but for now if you don't understand what I'm talking about I guess you can just ignore me. If...
John O'Laughlin
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May 3, 2005
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_jjchew_ (mailto:jjchew@...) writes: ... Good point. AA AAH ed ing s AALII s AALS AAR- dvark dwolf gh rgh rghh AAS vogel then? I've seen a...
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763
Hi All, I'm new here. My name is Peter and I live in Hobart, Tas, AU. I don't work anymore, as I am a disability pension. I have been involved with computers...
Peter W.
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May 15, 2005
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... I have a web site where I try to track things of interest to the group, but I don't know if I'ld go so far as to call it the group's official web site....
Graham Toal
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May 15, 2005
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765
Hi All, As the subject states something queer is happening to my messages. I have recently attempted to post 3 messages to this group: 2 late last night, and 1...
Peter Williams
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May 15, 2005
9:31 pm
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Hi, ... gh rgh rghh AAS vogel ... acceptable. ... [snip] I realise that I came in late to this conversation, and I may just be barking up the wrong tree, BUT,...
Peter Williams
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May 15, 2005
9:36 pm
767
Hi All, Oopps... I just noticed that the file 'twl.raw' (on http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~o-laughl/compdict/ ) does not contain the words: aardvark or aardwolf...
Peter Williams
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May 15, 2005
9:51 pm
768
Hi all, I'm in the very beginning stages of building a Scrabble-playing engine. As a tournament player, and a long-time programmer, this project meshes nicely...
Jarett Myskiw
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May 24, 2005
3:50 pm
769
... Do you know how to form a simple DAG? If you can, then it's the same code, but with the input data slightly shuffled. This old post from the archives may...
Graham Toal
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