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cmw

Mar 29, 2022 14:04

Yeah, it's a name, which wouldn't actually fly under Scrabble rules.

Sphinx

Mar 28, 2022 10:19

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Q: Letter score calculation for Scrabble word finder (Python)

I'm new to python programming and I'm trying to make an anagram solver. Actually when I did. My main problem is when publishing a word list, quickly calculating the scores of the words in the list and displaying them on the screen. Can you help me with this? For example, anagram solver can be exa...

anagram

Mitch

Mar 22, 2022 13:19

like in scrabble, it would be very strange to allow someone to search through a dictionary -before- placing a word. You can use a dictionary afterwards to check the word, but before is out of bounds.

Mitch

Mar 22, 2022 13:18

for mental games like scrabble or crosswords or wordle or semantle, your just supposed to use what you already know.

user21820

Mar 4, 2022 20:31

I should emphasize that the many digits in these scores are misleading, since the heuristic can't be better than 90% accuracy. But funnily enough, the general results seem to work even with different word lists. Some guy who did a computer search for Scrabble 5-letter words found SOARE+CLINT (8677+6260), which is also preferred by the heuristic compared to all the pairs I manually thought of.

Vikas

Mar 3, 2022 18:20

My colleague had this scrabble game he brought that in office. We played for 10 mins and then I never thought about it again.

Vikas

Mar 3, 2022 18:19

I played Scrabble only once in my life and left it in the middle 🤣

Mitch

Mar 3, 2022 18:19

But you'd totally accuse someone of making it up if you used it in Scrabble.

leslie townes

Feb 27, 2022 08:19

i knew a guy who played scrabble competitively in the US for a number of years. a huge amount of being competitive is memorizing long lists of short words that don't really exist in english usage, but do exist in the scrabble dictionary. it makes the difference when it's all about layering words on top of as many other words as possible.

leslie townes

Feb 27, 2022 08:16

the dictionaries used in scrabble have stuff that is in the OED, last used in english never. including e.g. lots of welsh stuff with no actual vowels in it.

leslie townes

Feb 27, 2022 08:16

they should remove it from both dictionaries. it might as well be scrabble, if they leave that in.

MBraedley

Feb 17, 2022 16:53

Also, that's a mean word. There's 7 words in the Scrabble dictionary that differ by just the 4th letter.

MBraedley

Feb 8, 2022 13:13

No help from the Scrabble word finder

leslie townes

Feb 8, 2022 02:32

my dad never played board games with me except scrabble. and then he only played until i started routinely beating him (around age 11).

copper.hat

Feb 5, 2022 20:50

my parents were very good a scrabble, crosswords, etc. my sister seems to have got that dna.

Rosie F

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

@xLeitix No, Scrabble already has a way for a player to call the opponent's bluff: challenging and the dictionary. If you think your opponent's play is invalid, challenge, and if all the words they made are in the dictionary, it's OK. Regardless of whether or not they or you know what they mean.

ilkkachu

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

@BillK, well, you're pretty much on point about why the very first answer I wrote said to talk it through with the friend. There are differences between the various Scrabble rules on that part, the Hasbro rules online basically say that whichever player was wrong, loses their next turn. But in essence, that rule also means that you can bluff if you're convinced no other player will not risk it. Now, if that rule makes for a fun game, I'll leave it to everyone to decide.

xLeitix

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

@BillK I think in competitive Scrabble there is a hefty cost on unsuccessful challenges - loss of next turn, as far as I know? So I guess in that environment bluffing is fair game, but it's certainly not the kind of game I sometimes play with my friends (there repeatedly getting caught making up words would get you thrown out).

barbecue

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

@xLeitix Years ago some friends and I actually created a Scrabble variant we called Convoluted Scrabble. The requirement was to invent a new word, which could not be an existing word, but had to look like it could be real. A definition had to be provided, and challenges were decided by popular vote. It was actually quite fun.

Bill K

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

Seems like an unnecessary rule unless you've agreed to "Bluff", If you are doing this, be sure to say beforehand that you are playing "Bluffer's Scrabble" or some such because you are not playing the agreed-upon game of "Scrabble". If you pulled this with me I would never play another game with you, ever. period. If you are playing competitively then I guess you can do whatever you can get away with, I mean people still try steroids I guess? Is it cool to "Bluff" at chess by moving a pawn if the other guy doesn't notice? It's certainly a strategy I suppose.

Chris H

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

Further to @ForgetIwaseverhere's point, the existence of Official Scrabble Words in book form is a pretty strong hint that definitions are irrelevant - it's just a list of valid words. My copy is ancient but still hefty enough to throw at your friend

Joe

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

This sounds like a house rule made for a household with children, where Scrabble was being used as a teaching tool to some extent.

xLeitix

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

Ok, google says this is apparently an OK strategy in competitive Scrabble (entertainment.howstuffworks.com/leisure/brain-games/…). The more you know ...

xLeitix

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

To be fair, if that was a rule it would almost certainly be precisely to prevent people from "bluffing" using invented-but-real-sounding words. I have to confess that I have absolutely 0 idea about competitive Scrabble, but to my casual behind this sounds a lot like behavior that's not in the spirit of the game, on the verge of unsportsmanlike conduct. That said, I am happy to stand corrected by somebody who actually plays or watches competitive Scrabble.

Feeds

Feb 3, 2022 16:05

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Q: Has it ever been an official rule that I have to demonstrate knowledge of what a word means in order to play it in Scrabble?

I was playing a game of Scrabble with a friend recently. We agreed on the dictionary to use for challenges and began. Partway through the game, I picked an uncommon word to play and my friend asked me to define the word and use it in a sentence. I asked him if he was issuing a formal Challenge, a...

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Boardgames

Jan 31, 2022 15:04

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Q: Do I have to know what a word means in order to play it in Scrabble?

I was playing a game of Scrabble with a friend recently. We agreed on the dictionary to use for challenges and began. Partway through the game, I picked an uncommon word to play and my friend asked me to define the word and use it in a sentence. I asked him if he was issuing a formal Challenge, a...

scrabble

Mitch

Jan 30, 2022 17:09

But 'pawl'? That's like someone trying out a Scrabble word because it sounds English.

Neil

Jan 29, 2022 10:08

I was struggling to golf down my scrabble scorer answer, when I suddenly had the brainwave of processing one board instead of two - by combining the two boards, with the old board in lower case and the new letters in upper case. This in itself already reduced the size of my answer, but it allowed me to totally rewrite my approach and I ended up under two fifths of the size of my original solution.

MBraedley

Jan 28, 2022 12:52

Although looking through Scrabble word finder, I think there was only one other option which probably isn't in the Wordle short list.

New Posts

Jan 27, 2022 21:36

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Q: Score a Scrabble Play

Background In Scrabble, players take turns placing tiles on a grid so that each contiguous set of (more than one) tiles in every row and column makes a word. In one play, tiles can be placed anywhere in a single row or column as long as they are all part of the same word. A word is scored (withou...

grid game scrabble

caird coinheringaahing

Jan 27, 2022 21:33

I'd also suggest emphasising that the word doesn't need to be a legal scrabble play, just to avoid any possible confusion (maybe bold that sentence?)

Sandbox Posts

Jan 24, 2022 20:43

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A: Sandbox for Proposed Challenges

Score a Scrabble Play Background In Scrabble, players take turns placing tiles on a grid so that each contiguous set of (more than one) tiles in every row and column makes a word. In one play, tiles can be placed anywhere in a single row or column as long as they are all part of the same word. A...

metasmoke

Jan 17, 2022 15:42

fp- feedback received on [MS] For Scrabble, Is there a most common phonies list anywhere?

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Jan 17, 2022 15:42

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Sphinx

Jan 12, 2022 14:25

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Q: What dictionary is Wordle based on?

The US Scrabble dictionary only has 9,000ish 5 letter words, of which a good portion are plurals, and then there's the list of "dead" words in the code and then most of these words are not "crossword" puzzle words. Logically you'd want Aunt Gertrude and all her friends to be able to play so the v...

language

Sandejo

Jan 10, 2022 20:58

@markvs Why does it matter how old Scrabble is?

markvs

Jan 10, 2022 20:58

@Sandejo: Scrabble exists much longer than Wiktionary (which is notorious for being full of errors).

Sandejo

Jan 10, 2022 20:58

@markvs What makes Scrabble the authority on what is a real word? Wiktionary does include xor as a conjunction.

markvs

Jan 10, 2022 20:58

Because "xor" is not a word. Try using it in scrabble.

Adám

Jan 10, 2022 11:25

@Richard How about starting with implementing a simple form of word guessing game, e.g. indicating which letters of the input match the target word. That uses vectorised = in the APL way. It can then be extended to also report number of correct characters which teaches +/ on Booleans, and ∊ for correct characters not in the right places, etc. etc. You can extend the game with features like keeping score and computing Scrabble scores, etc.

Boardgames

Jan 9, 2022 18:55

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Q: Is this a legal play in Scrabble?

My friend played the A and the X underneath the word REARMICE and i was confused as i didnt believe it was legal to play words alongside other words. he also stated that he recieved points for “ax” twice, and “ea” once, and since the x was on a triple letter he tripled its points, and then triple...

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Captain Obvious

Jan 1, 2022 18:56

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Q: Scrabble Kata (C#)

I recently took a ~three month break from professional software development and am feeling a bit rusty. I thought a good way to ease back into things before looking for a job would be to take a swing at one of the excellent coding exercises that The Guardian use in their interview process (GitHu...

c#

metasmoke

Dec 27, 2021 18:46

fp- feedback received on [MS] Where to buy a Scrabble board without any inscription?

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Dec 27, 2021 18:43

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copper.hat

Dec 18, 2021 02:12

:-) my mon & dad were scrabble fans.

leslie townes

Dec 18, 2021 02:12

no, they based it off the value of the letters in scrabble

caird coinheringaahing

Dec 13, 2021 01:36

@UnrelatedString Isn't this just Scrabble?

metasmoke

Dec 12, 2021 09:32

tpu- feedback received on [MS] Make a Scrabble Word Finder

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Dec 12, 2021 09:32

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Dec 12, 2021 09:32

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