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This is the situation in a two person scrabble game. Your opponent will always make the highest scoring word he can.
We also assume no one has made a move that would have lost on a challenge.
What is the best move to play now?
Feel free to discuss it here but PM the answer to me so everyone else can play too (google it if you have to but that kind of ruins it).
EDIT: http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/rules.html for distributions and scoring of the tiles.
Originally posted by darvlayRetrograde analysis is a technique employed by chess problem solvers to determine which moves were played leading up to a given position. In most problems, this technique is not required, but there is a whole genre of problems in which it is an important part; such problems are known as retros.
Retrograde?
Except it's Scrabble.
Originally posted by XanthosNZCopy that.
Retrograde analysis is a technique employed by chess problem solvers to determine which moves were played leading up to a given position. In most problems, this technique is not required, but there is a whole genre of problems in which it is an important part; such problems are known as retros.
Except it's Scrabble.
xanthos you should make this more interesting for readers to solve. maybe explain why for heavens sake we would need retrograde in scrabble to find the best next move?! that makes no sense to me as a chess player who played about 10-20 games of scrabble in his life.
edit: xanthos with 'th' of course 🙂
Originally posted by crazyblueNotice that most of the tiles have been placed. Therefore the opponent can only have certain tiles in his hand. If you can find what he played last then you can narrow it further (as he must have played the best word possible). Knowing your opponent's hand means you know what he will play next (again best scoring word).
xanthos you should make this more interesting for readers to solve. maybe explain why for heavens sake we would need retrograde in scrabble to find the best next move?! that makes no sense to me as a chess player who played about 10-20 games of scrabble in his life.
edit: xanthos with 'th' of course 🙂
And that's all the hints I'm giving for now.
