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. ...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
Sep 1, 2007 9:24 am
Al Zimmermann's programming contest about building 15x15 grids with dense words packing will start in a few hours. Its description is here: ...
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Stewart Holden
stewartholden
Sep 4, 2007 9:19 am
Hi Wordgame Programmers, There is a game called Spinword produced by Joyboost, who recently sponsored the British Matchplay Scrabble Championship. It's quite...
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Stewart Holden
stewartholden
Sep 4, 2007 10:50 am
Sorted now, thanks. Stewart...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Sep 4, 2007 3:38 pm
... 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...
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David Levy
davidlevylondon
Sep 4, 2007 3:59 pm
Does anyone have a fast algorithm for filling a crossword grid using the words in an electronic dictionary? David Levy...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Sep 4, 2007 4:27 pm
... 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,...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Sep 4, 2007 5:29 pm
... 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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Sep 5, 2007 4:30 pm
... 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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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Sep 6, 2007 8:57 pm
... slightly off topic, but that reminds me of something I hacked up last year and forgot to post: ...
I thought I had posted this here but I was bitten by the Yahoo web interface which directs replies directly to the poster! ... From: Graham Toal...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 11, 2007 3:08 pm
[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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 11, 2007 3:20 pm
... 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...
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Andy Cook
andrucook
Oct 11, 2007 9:51 pm
... 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.) ...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 23, 2007 8:09 pm
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...
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John J. Chew III
poslfit
Oct 24, 2007 7:37 pm
... (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...
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John O'Laughlin
johnny5113
Oct 24, 2007 8:11 pm
I want to make Graham's computer thingy play Clabbers. John O'Laughlin ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 24, 2007 8:12 pm
... 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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 25, 2007 7:46 am
... 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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 27, 2007 1:56 pm
... (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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Alan Frank
halibutpt
Oct 28, 2007 1:44 pm
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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 28, 2007 3:32 pm
... 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...
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John O'Laughlin
johnny5113
Oct 29, 2007 7:39 pm
... compresses overexpose meristelic* pristrcene* restrainer extravenen* speciesism solennisee* esineeseen* secernment# This was the only one of Graham's...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Oct 29, 2007 9:55 pm
... 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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Dec 13, 2007 4:52 pm
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...
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Graham Toal
graham_toal
Dec 14, 2007 4:41 pm
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...
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Jean-Charles Meyrignac
jcmeyrignac
Dec 20, 2007 10:12 am
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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jcmeyrignac
Dec 20, 2007 1:06 pm
Sorry for the slow reply, I never received the recent messages. Nice results about your ten-squares !! Did you check only symmetrical grids or also...
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Warwick Allison
warwickallison
Dec 21, 2007 6:10 am
... That sure would be an amazing coincidence! With TRAD10-results.txt, checking with French or English tile distributions shows that at best you'd need to...
