Hi everyone - I am an English teacher by trade - my tech skills are minimal for standards in this group - but I'd like to hear from anyone interested in...
post your specification here - if it's something I can do trivially I'll be happy to - with the caveat that my programming skills don't include Windows GUI...
That's great Graham - thanks! I reckon it's fairly simple. I would like to host interactive doublets online for students of English. Each game would have a...
... I agree. I was about to make two similar suggestions: 1) dictionary definitions are OK with concrete nouns such as "tree" etc. Anything more abstract or a...
WHAT is Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool, a program for the PC. WHAT has been available since June of this year. It is simple to use for your most common...
WHAT (Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool) does it all! WHAT is a program for the PC that can take the place of a Franklin, Bob's Bible, most of Mike Baron's...
Hi Gents I've just finished writing a new game, it's here... http://www.miro.demon.co.uk/Qindar/ I haven't officially released it yet, so any feedback would be...
Hi Chaps I had two people give me feedback from this, and I did discover some problems as a result. There is a new version 1.3 on the site now. Again, if ...
WHAT (Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool) is very helpful in making the transition to OWL2. WHAT keeps getting better - the latest release has improved...
... Unfortunately I'm not an admin of that group otherwise I'ld add you myself. I'll post to the group and let Sherri know you're trying to subscribe....
I've been chatting with Daniel Mathias about algorithms for solving Boggle grids, and I was wondering what you can do, if you happen to have a particularly...
I'm rather surprised that this has not been forwarded to this group already. Nick Ball ... _________ Nick Ball Postdoc Department of Astronomy & NCSA ...
... After a couple of days I'm up to the 'e's ... electromagnetist: mgnt oaie trls ceet 800 words, scoring 2045 (using I think web2, not sure :-/ ) It occurs...
I have tried many times over the years to come up with a decent scheme for attaching a meaningful "score" to the simple game of taking a longish word and...
... Penalties should accrue for a) words left out (probably ... The problem you describe is a little bit like a fuzzy compare algorithm, for instance as used...
Former club/tourney player Steve Root has produced some record-breaking Scrabble constructions, and this is a recent one, in which he is attempting to find the...
I play Scrabble vs. the 1996 copyright CD (which I call the Blue CD) on my old Macintosh. Earlier this year, I researched DAWGs enough to (in my own clunky ...
There are two files. One contains the strings, and the other contains an index to the strings. The data structure used for the index is a "Patricia tree." You...
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Former club/tourney player Steve Root has produced some record-breaking Scrabble constructions, and I posted one here on 24-Mar-06. I neglected to say that...
Steve noticed this tweak and asked me to make this known. I sent a message to this mailing list 3 days ago, and this updates that. There is a one-point error...
Hi all, I tried posting this on cgp, uks and sowpods but got no reply so am running out of lists to ask. Hope it's not too OT: Is there a way I can view .mvn...
The Boggle scoring scheme that my friends and I use should work well for this. It's based on Fibonacci numbers: 1 point for a four-letter word, 2 points for...
A while ago, Zax asked for anamonics for stems that are also words.(for example, LOWLIER plays through WOOF, which in turn plays through SHH) I sent him what...
From mathpuzzle.com: "Crossing State Lines The July 2006 Games has an interesting contest. Build the smallest rectangular word search puzzle which contains all...
... You mean something like this? Here's your starting baseline using the wordsrch program from http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/wsfind/ ... m a r y l a n d k o...
WHAT (Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool) for the PC is available for $19.95 via downloads, including 3 years of support. This includes updates to the program...
I like Maven's sim (better than Quackle), and I heard that this has been done on a MAC, so it must be possible. I'd like to be able to replace the word list in...
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