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...
... Haven't used Maven myself so I don't know for sure if this works with the old version, but it's worth a look. http://www.wutka.com/scrabble.html Also JJ...
... Each ... hint ... Gavin, are you still reading this group? The email address I had for you is no longer valid. I was rather looking forward to seeing how...
WHAT (Wolfberg's Helpful Anagramming Tool) is for: - individual use, where it can help you postmortem, study, print lists, make and use virtual flashcards, and...
WHAT is a program for the PC which is useful in both personal and club settings. Scott Appel has been providing puzzles for word study, and WHAT is a great...
(This message is about 180 lines in length.) A recent puzzler presented on the NPR radio show Car Talk asked for the longest word from which you can remove...
I have heard a rumour that LeXpert will NOT be updated for the Collins dictionary. Can anyone substantiate or repudiate this? If this is correct is there...
Sorry for the long message, but I tried to clearly explain my problem. I'm currently working on a distributed crosswords project. In short, the project will be...
Using the AWL06 (Scrabble) word list and the 1983 Boggle cube set, after 500 million random Boggle shakes: osei ernt teai sslq Total unique words 665, standard...
I'm not a member of the quackle group, so if you think this reply is worth posting there, Graham, please do so. I believe that in most cases, there are likely...
... I think your formula for mapping leave-probabilities to play-probabilities is what I'm looking for to make my suggestion work. It's definitely *not* too...
Here's the outline of my 29 May talk to Portland State University's CS 442/542: Combinatorial Games. Thorough credit was given to Maven and Quackle, from...
Just released - WHAT now comes with a Collins lexicon for World competitions, and its OSPD4 lexicon has been updated to be usable for school Scrabble. ...
Hi Wordgame Programmers, There is a game called Spinword produced by Joyboost, who recently sponsored the British Matchplay Scrabble Championship. It's quite...
... Although it's probably not a discussion for the Quackle list, if you want to take it next door to wordgame-programmers, I'm interested in working out the...
... Hi David, it's been a long time. (You might remember me from when Richard Hooker and I entered your Olympiad a couple of times. Wonder where he is now,...
... Right, it has to be adaptive. Hard coding a rule set for a particular level of play would fail the Turing Test. ... Exactly! In fact one of the things...
... Having been tracking some of the linguistic community lists for a few years I've been keeping up with ways of doing something like this. However due to the...
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