[ExI] dictionary scrabble

[spike]

While watching the family play scrabble I came up with an idea.  Perhaps you
know of a player who comes up with obscure words, perhaps ones you never
heard, which is annoying.  Imagine a variation of scrabble in which all the
normal rules are in place but a new multiplier is in play.  Each score is
multiplied by the number of times that word appears in the unabridged
dictionary.  Although that uses all the same rules as regular scrabble, it
is a completely new game.  Every word you could use before could still be
played, but most words would have a multiplier of 1.

 

Consider the list of words from the unabridged dictionary below from an
arbitrarily chosen page:

 


patinate


patinated


patination


patine


patined


patines


patining


patinize


patinized


patinous


patins


patio


patios


patise


patisserie


patisseries


patissier


patly


patness


patnesses


patnidar


pato


patois


patola

 

Of these 24 words, only patio and patios would be non-annoying to have an
opponent play in scrabble.  Microsloth Word marks 19 of these 24 words as
misspellings.  One could imagine for instance the word "the" having a
multiplier of perhaps several hundred thousand.  That makes an entirely new
game, one which invites someone to write the code to find a single word
worth perhaps a million points.

 

spike

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