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- INFO.TXT Info about joining the national organization and about
- Internet Scrabble (tm).
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- HISTORY.TXT History of the Scrabble (tm) board game & about
- computerized versions of same.
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- WANNABE.WDS Words that never made it into the OSPD (tm), but should
- have (and might still, in a later edition).
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- EXTRACT.DOC How to use the EXTRACT program.
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- WORD4DAY.DOC How to use the WORD FOR THE DAY program.
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- HPB3K.DOC Explanation of the HPB7.3K and HPB8.3K word lists.
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- MUSINGS.TXT Musings on letter distribution, rack balance, and
- related topics.
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- WSTUDY.TXT Musings on the value of word study software.
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- LAWSUIT.XER A possible lawsuit against the NSA by Xerox Corp.?
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- WORDLIST.OSW A discussion of the OSW, and of the need for a single
- standard word list for Scrabble (tm) play.
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- EXTRACT.EXE Program to extract words containing letter combos
- from word lists. [A slightly faster, updated version
- of this utility is found in the WORDY package by the
- same author.]
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- WORD4DAY.EXE Word for the day program. Selects a random word from
- the unusual.lst file. Can be set up to automatically
- give you the "word for the day" each time the computer
- is powered up.
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- PLUS1.DOC Description of "plus 1" lists, see below.
- 2PLUS1.WDS List of valid "2 plus 1" combinations.
- 3PLUS1.WDS List of all valid "3 plus 1" combinations.
- 4PLUS1.WDS List of all valid "4 plus 1" combinations.
- 5PLUS1.WDS List of valid "5 plus 1" combinations.
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- 2LETTERS.LST List of all valid 2-letter words.
- 3LETTERS.LST List of all valid 3-letter words.
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- UNUSUAL.LST List of 5800+ unusual words that are valid plays.
- Includes all words new to OSPD3 (tm), final edition.
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- RE.LST List of re- prefixed words.
- UN.LST List of un- prefixed words.
- IN.LST List of in- prefixed words.
- J.LST List of words containing J
- Q.LST List of words containing Q
- X.LST List of words containing X
- Z.LST List of words containing Z
- Q_NOT_U.LST List of words containing Q, but not U.
- XZJKQ.LST List of words containing at least 2 letters from the
- set XZJKQ.
- VOWEL.DMP List of "vowel dumps", words with 70% or more vowels.
- CONSON.DMP List of "consonant dumps", 72% or more consonants.
- CONSON.4 List of words containing string of 4 or more
- consecutive consonants.
- CONSON.5 List of words containing string of 5 or more
- consecutive consonants.
- NOVOWEL.LST List of words containing no vowels.
- BINGOS.TXT List of Bingos to be made from common letter combos.
- OSPD2.NEW List of words added to 2nd edition of the OSPD (tm)
- OSPD3.NEW List of words added to 3rd edition of the OSPD (tm)
- REMOVED.WOR List of words that "disappeared" between editions of
- the OSPD (tm).
- PALINDR.OME List of all (4-letter or more) palindromes in OSPD3.
- DROME.PAL List of all (4-letter or more) words in OSPD3 that,
- when reversed, form other valid words in OSPD3 but are
- not palindromes.
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- COMMON.BGO List of 200-odd "common bingos" found in 154,000 racks
- drawn in computerized simulation.
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- HPB7 List of top 100 most common 7-letter bingos.
- HPB8 List of top 100 most common 8-letter bingos.
- HPB7.3K List of 3000 most common 7-letter bingos.
- HPB8.3K List of 3000 most common 8-letter bingos.
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- DATABASE.TXT Proposal for a database of classic games.
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- WORDY.AD Advert for the WORDY system by the same author.
- WAK.AD Advert for the WAK02 word study software by the same
- author.
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- READ.ME General info relating to use of all these files.
- WHATS.NEW Version history.
- SDN.ID Descriptor file necessary for SDN net distribution.
- SDN.CTL Descriptor file necessary for commercial net distrib.
- FILE_ID.DIZ Descriptor file necessary for BBS net distribution.
- VENDINFO.DIZ Descriptor file necessor for vendor distribution.
- DESC.SDI Additional short file descriptor.
- AVEXTRA.TXT Short descriptor file to generate "unzip" message.
- README.1ST This file.
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- No registration fee requested for the SCRABLST package (it is only a "teaser"
- for the WORDY package available from the same author).
- Your comments and feedback welcome, though.
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- The OSPD is a trademark of Milton Bradley, a division of Habro, Inc.
- WORDY and SCRABLST are not trademarks.
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- St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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