Raul

>Both Boo and Bub are found by wordfind.con/solver - a Scrabble resource.

greg
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from: Raul Miller <[email protected]>
to: Programming forum <[email protected]>
date: 31 December 2015 at 17:17
subject: Re: [Jprogramming] This year is one of a kind...

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jose Mario Quintana
<[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, both ee and oo are playable according to the Official Scrabble 
> Players Dictionary and Official Scrabble Words International; but, neither ee 
> nor oo is playable in the US, Canada, Israel, and Thailand Thailand under the 
> alternative TWL dictionary [0].

> [0] Appendix:Official English Scrabble 2-letter words

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Official_English_Scrabble_2-letter_words

>My post which introduced 83boo was using words starting with b (and prepending 
>an arbitrary one or two digit number on each of them).

Specifically, on a mac:
   bwords=: (#~ 'b' = {.@>) <@tolower;._2 fread '/usr/share/dict/words'
   bbases=: 1+i.99
   nums=: __&".@> bnums=:(":&.>bbases),&.>/bwords

>That truncating the number and b leaves a palindrome was just a coincidence.

>Also, I expect that 'boo' would be legal in Official Scrabble even in the US.

Or am I wrong about that?

Thanks,
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Raul

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from: Jose Mario Quintana <[email protected]>
to: Programming forum <[email protected]>
date: 31 December 2015 at 15:57
subject: Re: [Jprogramming] This year is one of a kind...

Greg wrote: "…, 8bub8, …"

Wow!

>By the way, both ee and oo are playable according to the Official Scrabble 
>Players Dictionary and Official Scrabble Words International; but, neither ee 
>nor oo is playable in the US, Canada, Israel, and Thailand Thailand under the 
>alternative TWL dictionary [0].

[0] Appendix:Official English Scrabble 2-letter words

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Official_English_Scrabble_2-letter_words
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