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- From: richard.vannoy@filebank.cts.com (Richard Vannoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: A PEACHY-KEEN PROGRAM
- Message-ID: <249.332.uupcb@filebank.cts.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:05:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: richard.vannoy@filebank.cts.com (Richard Vannoy)
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- Organization: The File Bank BBS - Fallbrook, CA 619-728-4318
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- So here's a question for programmers.
-
- If you are allowed to pick any seven tiles in Scrabble,
- what seven letters (no blanks) would you pick that would
- let you make the most seven letter words? (Answer below.)
-
- How do I know? Well, out of curiosity, I wrote a program
- that takes various combinations, like:
-
- - Just the seven tiles you have (for the first play
- in Scrabble), and you get a list of all words in
- the English language that can be made with any
- combination of from 2 to seven tiles. (My Quick-
- BASIC program spits out from just a few words to
- 200 words, depending on the tiles used, in about
- 3 to 8 seconds.)
-
- - Input the seven tiles you have, and the cross tiles
- you can make words with. The list shows all possible
- cross words you can make, in order of the point
- values assigned to Scrabble tiles.
-
- - Enter just six tiles and you get a list of all
- possible words you can make using a blank.
-
- Each of the first two variations can search a specially
- prepared 55,000 word dictionary for all possible words
- that can be made from the given letters in under 10
- seconds.
-
- Now that I've written this wonderful, peachy-keen program,
- my question is what do I do with it?? Other than a "How
- to Cheat at Scrabble" program, has anyone any ideas on how
- this could be packaged or marketed as Shareware in a way
- that might benefit Shareware users?
-
- And the answer to the question above is for you to pick the
- following tiles: E I P R S S T
- There are seven different seven letter words you can make
- from these tiles. I challenge anyone else to pick a better
- seven letters.
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