On 4/11/06, Austin Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Put another way: Is knowing ceratin much less valuable than knowing
> tacrine if, in the million games you simulate, ceratin can be played
> iff certain can be played for equal points (generating zero equity
> advantage for both) but sometimes tacrine can be played with a big
> equity advantage? Assuming you know certain, I guess ceratin is less
> valuable than tacrine, but knowing either ceratin or certain (one or
> both as a group) might be more valuable than knowing tacrine in this
> case.
>
> I guess I would argue for looking at the equity advantage of the play
> relative not to the second-best play, but the next-best play that uses
> different letters from your rack.
This is in fact what I do, I just didn't want to go into too much detail.
> Have you thought about adding points for words that are less commonly
> known (I'm thinking you could flag all 4- to 15-letter OWL2 words that
> do not appear in a common spell-checker, say) as being more likely to
> draw a challenge?
Not really. There are some common word eights which are difficult for
me to anagram, and I'd like to see them listed equally with unusual
words. When I study I like to go through all of the words once every
few months and then focus on the words that I missed or took too long
to get. Easy words are filtered out that way.
John
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