Raul >Both Boo and Bub are found by wordfind.con/solver - a Scrabble resource.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- 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, --- Raul -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
