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...
How about using a *smaller* list of words to try to generate something that actually looks like a ten-square, rather than looking like someone was just...
... Because we ran the tensquare program to exhaustion some years ago on all the English words we could find and there weren't any valid squares. Read the old...
... compresses overexpose meristelic* pristrcene* restrainer extravenen* speciesism solennisee* esineeseen* secernment# This was the only one of Graham's...
... Pointers? His web site just seems to cover his erotic novel writing, and I can't find it at puzzlers.org (although their 'online dictionaries' wiki page...
Q: If a list of approx 600K words of 10 letters generates around 55000 traditional word squares, how many word squares should I expect to find using a list of...
It took three runs to complete - each run would take off from where the previous run finished - and it took approximately 20 hours real time running on 512...
I did some analysis on a large corpus in french: http://www.lexique.org/public/corpatext.php This corpus has 37 millions of words, and weighs 200 megabytes. I...
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