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• At the end of a game, hit the Enter key to cycle through all racks.
If a letter is swapped then any redoable moves are lost.
desired rack or board position (or if you're a compulsive cheat).
the resulting pop-up window. This is convenient for setting up a
on a letter in the current rack and swap it with any letter seen in
• If there are one or more letters left then you can Command-click
background and selecting a pattern from the pop-up window.
pattern for the main window by Option-clicking anywhere in the
a score box or empty square. You can also change the background
colors by holding down the Option key while clicking anywhere in
the board squares appear in various colors. You can change these
• If you have a color monitor then each player's score box and all
"Letters left" box and click on Done.
• If you only want to throw back a few letters then drop them in the
This is easier to do than to describe, so try it out!
Further letters will be moved to the nearest empty squares.
square, or vertically if the mouse is anywhere below that line.
imaginary horizontal line passing through the middle of the first
A second letter will be added horizontally if the mouse is above an
(It is probably just as quick to drag the first letter to the board.)
key you need to move the mouse to the desired square on the board.
corresponding to the letters in your rack. Before hitting the first
• Another quick way to move letters to the board is to hit the keys
vertical line of letters, use Shift-Option-click.
adjacent letters and move them in a horizontal line. To move a
• Shift-click on a letter in the current rack or board to grab all
stop the current operation (such as an all-Mac game).
• If the watch cursor is visible then you can hit Command-period to
- Hit 9 to see the best strategic move (using skill level 9).
- Hit 8 to see the highest scoring move (using skill level 8).
- Hit the left/right arrow keys to undo/redo moves.
- Hit the period key to permute letters in the current rack.
- Hit the space bar to shuffle letters in the current rack.
- Hit the Return key to return all letters to the current rack.
- Hit the Enter key instead of clicking on the Move/Done button.
• Keyboard short cuts: