Re: [quackle] quackle too smart!

[Nick Ball]

One could imagine Level 1: common words, with random omissions Level 2: all common words Level 3: common words + high playability Level 4: all words Level 1 then simulates a `kitchen table player', 2 a strong but not specialist Scrabble player, 3 a medium rated club or tournament Scrabble player and 4 is what we have now. Also ability to play phoneys, and so on. I don't know of a `common words' list subset, but the playability would be easy to compile. Nick Ball On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Kevin Leeds wrote: It seems to me this has mostly been answered. I am not an official quackle team member but i will tell you what I think I know ... There is not currently a way to reduce the strength of Quackle's computer opponent moves. The quackle makers have posted that they are not attempting to duplicate Hasbro scrabble's and popularity features. I think they said they have no plan to create a simulated a human player of a selected strength - and I think that is partly because there would be so many different ways of doing that, and none that are particularly correct. To play scrabble recreationally on Quackle and not get whipped to badly I suggest using it like this: 1) create two human players - yourself and SmartPlayer 2) For your own moves you can decide on your best move you can find and then do 'generate moves' to see what options you missed, and do sims to investigate the strengths of your options - and then commit a choice 3) For SmartPlayer you can also generate moves and do sims, and if you think a play is too clever or uses vocabulary that is too rare, well then you can have SmartPlayer do something else I think this would be somewhat more educational and fun as playing yourself on a board with using an anagrammer or playing a bot on ISC. I have not tried it a lot myself (not having been stranded recently on desert island) Kevin Leeds ----- Original Message ----- From: oielian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED].com Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:52 PM Subject: [quackle] quackle too smart! hi, i'm new to quackle and apologize if i'm repeating a previous post. is there a way to make quackle a less formidable foe? and a BIG THANK YOU for creating this! _________ Nick Ball Postdoc Department of Astronomy & NCSA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://nball.astro.uiuc.edu nball at astro.uiuc.edu __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Baseball board game Board games Chess board game Scrabble Scrabble game Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___