On 2/22/07, Ben Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear dream team, > > My question is whether you could add a feature to Quackle (or slap me if it > will already do this J) which would allow players to play live games with > Quackle and then use the existing features to generate a report analyzing the > plays made by both players. I'm envisioning setting a laptop on a lazy susan > and swiveling it back and forth. It seems to me you'd need to add an option > for a live game. That option would disable doing word lists, generating > choices, etc., until the game is completed. It would need to also have a > feature that after you commit your play, and see your new tiles, that you > click a button (or hit enter, or whatever) which then hides your rack before > you swivel the board to your opponent. He/she then clicks/types something > which unhides their rack. I talked with a few players at Salado last weekend > about this, and they liked the idea. > > Methinks, that doing something like this in all or some of the games at the > Premier Division at BAT, or some other event, and it could give a treasure > trove of analytical information without anyone having to do manual entry. > > What do you think?
Ben, Quackle doesn't currently have this, but it has been suggested before, not specifically for use in tournament settings, but just to allow two players to play a casual game of Scrabble on a single computer. I can't predict when we would add this, but if it were requested with an upcoming tournament in mind, we could be ready. Personally, I wouldn't want to give up playing on a real Scrabble board, and to make moves on the physical board *and* enter them in a computer might be overwhelming. I don't know how many other players feel the same, but I would prefer for games to be annotated by third parties. John
