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...
[Reply CC'd to wordgame-programmers] ... Glad I was able to help, but you know programmers, we love to dot the I's and cross the T's. It'll be interesting to...
... unfortunately that article says that the maths is explained in "Scrabble Players News, No 67, May 1986" - which I don't think is online. Can anyone get us...
... Have you just counted the number of words that can be formed? Because you've listed some twice where letters are duplicated (e.g. ARISTAE on the top row.) ...
Well, OK, it's not Christmas, but it feels like it :-) As part of my work I've been given access to an array of 64bit X86 computers (4996 CPUs total, I can use...
... (pausing to wipe drool) I asked Jason Katz-Brown the other day when he was going to add support for massively parallel environments to Quackle and he said...
... Scrabble was my first thought too, but the problem is that this isn't an interactive service and it really would be a major hassle to hook up a scrabble...
... http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/wordsquare/partial-tensquare-results.txt The run aborted after 2 minutes - a bit of an anti-climax! More to follow... G...
... (That turned out to be due to the checkpointing code that was invoked using the unix ALRM signal. Turns out to be too hairy, I've taken it out) Things are...
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