hi there,
I too am a recent discoverer of quackle for Mac OS X. What a great
piece of software! Thanks for your efforts. To seond Jason, I
would find it very helpful to be able to move the letters around in
the rack as with non virtual scrabble. Thanks again.
David
On Aug 15, 2006, at 2:31 AM, Jason E Katz-Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, emanationsmith wrote:
>
>> Hi there, just found quackle after going completely bonkers trying to
>> find scrabble for MAC OSX not for online gaming... HOORAH! BUT,I am
>> lost with some of the expressions used and lack of help menu to teach
>> me how to use it.
>
> Hi, I'm happy you're happy! Thanks for the questions.
>
>> 1. What is the difference between TWL, COSD and SOWPODS? I want
>> the UK
>> full scrabble words as I have in my scrabble words book, which one
>> will do the UK job?
>>
>
> twl06 is the North American word source, sowpods is the UK word
> source,
> and cosd is an awesome word source the UK might switch to in a year
> or so.
> (It stands for Collins Scrabble Dictionary.)
>
>> 2. Is there any way at all to vary the skill of the computer, if it
>> always thrashes the pants off me - I always want to use the "generate
>> choices" facility, which is not playing scrabble ;( I would just like
>> to bring it closer to my level a bit!
>>
>
> Sorry, not yet. Consider it super incentive to keep improving :-)
>
>> 3. Is there any way of moving each letter around in the rack to make
>> words and try out difference words before typing (without just
>> pressing shuffle)
>
> Sorry, not yet. John and I don't shuffle our tiles so this feature is
> unfortunately not highly docketed.
>
>>
>> 4. How do I just "look up a word"
>
> Click the "Generate Word List" button and type in the letters of
> the word.
> As a bonus this will also list anagrams of the letters you type. If
> when
> you press the Enter key, no words appear, then the word you typed
> isn't
> acceptable and has no anagrams.
>
>>
>> 5. In the lister what does 'regex' and 'probability' mean/do? What
>> does the lister actually do, i have played around with it and can't
>> figure out what it actually does???? Am I really that thick?
>>
>
> A regular expressoin is a nifty way to search for words with a certain
> pattern, but is a little bit of an advanced feature so you don't
> need to
> worry about it. The probability sort is useful for sorting a list
> of words
> by how often they will be drawn from a full bag of scrabble tiles.
>
>> 5. In choices what does "plies" mean????
>>
>
> If you run a simulation, this number is how many turns will be played
> ahead.
>
>> somebody please help me if you have the time and energy, thanks x
>>
>
> I hope this helps and you continue enjoying Quackle!
>
> cheers,
> --Jason
>
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