Opening Rack Simulation

Opening Rack Scenario
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Tonight I had this opening rack in my game: AEJNSTQ

I immediately thought of JANES, and played it, although JEANS, or JEATS would have been better positionally.

I then simulated this rack in maven and was surprised that QAT was the top preference by quite a few points. The next option was a surprise too of CHANGE JQ. Of course this would make it easier to get bingos.

I think JEANS or JEATS is best because if scores 40 points whereas QAT only scores 24. But it's interesting to see what Maven thinks.

I then simulated in Quackle and QAT come out best again! QAT had the highest win percentage followed by JEANS.

Words of the Week

OXYGENIC
ISOGENIC
ZOOGENIC


BOOR
BOORD
BOORDE

BOORTREE

BORD
BORDE
BORDEL
BORDELLO

UINTAITE

DICH
DICHT
DICHTED

DICHORD

CAJAPUT
CAJEPUT
CAJUPUT

USUCAPT

COOL HOOK OF THE WEEK:

JIN + RICKSHAW = JINRICKSHAW

Also: JIN + RICKSHA = JINRICKSHA

Quackle Release

The new Maven type program Quackle was released recently. It's pretty good so far but will likely undergo lots of upgrades I suspect.

Possible upgrades:

* Allow users to click on the board and setup games.

* Better endgame

* A way to import games from ISC

* A better name than Quackle! Joke...

* A way for the computer to play itself (or can it do this already?)

* Different Levels of difficulty