Sorry, I didn't see the private email. Or my work account rejected it (my email box was full quite a few times recently)
Anyway, I don't intend to do this with the sowpods data. I personally don't play (in other words, I suck at it) sowpods. I can provide any takers with the ".NET" .exe to extract the words and hooks from any logs created. It tooks about 6 days of 4 computers to pump out enough logs. After you just need to import the extract into a database. I can also provide the queries required to make the resulting list. As well as an .asp script to produce the HTML. It would require a fair bit of room. The SQL Server version was around 20gigs when all was said and done...61 million rows. --- In [email protected], "lauradoodleuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Ten Den, Chris" <tendenc@> wrote: > > > > Good day all, > > > > I finished compiling the word list. I broke it down into 4 files, > or > > else it is too big. Right now it is 228 pages long.* > > > > If someone out there is good with .PDF, can they figure out how to > > compress them better. If they can get smaller that is. I have the > > source .html files but they are bigger and make your browser crawl > when > > opened. > > > > You can find the volumes on http://www.ottawascrabbleclub.com/ > then go > > to the study room and look under lists. > > > > Make sure you double side your printer. Save a few trees. So > far, it's > > doing me pretty good, it's nifty to see the strategy with regards > to > > word length and the word played. > > > > The 2's and 3's are the #1 priority to learn.** > > 4's 5's and 6's are used mostly as dumps or power tile plays. > > 7's and 8's both start with 5 vowel words as priority then move > quickly > > to the stems. > > > > It's definitely a neat way to learn the words. By learning just > the > > first volume, you probably cover 75%*** of all plays you're ever > likely > > to see. > > > > * Word list does not contain every word. For example, BUBBLE > never made > > it into even 1 game out of over 1.3 million games. > > ** No, fortunately I didn't need to do this exercise to discover > that. > > You'll also note that ZZZ is nowhere to be found. > > *** The 75 percent stat was made up. I have no idea what it > really is. > > > I asked this question privately but got no response so I'll try > again publicly. > > I assume that your exercise was to OWL2. If I'm right about that, is > there any chance of you repeating the exercise with SOWPODS? > > The rest of the world would be very interested in the results. > > Pete > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quackle/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
