[ExI] dictionary scrabble

[Will Steinberg]

Hmm, very interesting.  This sounds like the kind of post-game game they
play in a sci-fi scenario.

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:25 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> 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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