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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Consider the list of words from the unabridged dictionary below from an arbitrarily chosen page:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=87 style='width:65.0pt;margin-left:-.75pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patinate<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patinated<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patination<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patine<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patined<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patines<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patining<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patinize<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patinized<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patinous<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patins<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patio<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patios<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patise<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patisserie<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patisseries<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patissier<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patly<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patness<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patnesses<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patnidar<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>pato<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patois<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=87 nowrap style='width:65.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>patola<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>