Liz, Yes, this is the right idea. I haven't provided a table for vowel/consonant balance values, but for the short leaves it should be approximately this (off the top of my head, not anything Quackle uses or ever has used):
1v -0.7 1c +0.5 (my suggestion before "undid" these from the 1-tile leaves) 2v -5.0 1v1c +2.0 2c +0.5 So the value for ER would be better than just the values of E and R, because one vowel and one consonant is a good combination. John On 5/10/07, rubyclaire123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thank you, John. Let me see if I understand this correctly: A leave of E is valued at 0.35 A leave of R is valued at 1.1 But a leave of ER is not valued at 1.45; rather it is: (0.35 + 0.7) + (1.1 - 0.5) = 1.65 Is this right? And the same adjustment factor for vowels (+0.7) and consonants (-0.5) is used whether the vowel is E or U and the consonent is R or V? Liz --- In [email protected] <quackle%40yahoogroups.com>, "John O'Laughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Until recently, Quackle's leave values were loaded from a human > readable file in the data directory. We changed the format so that it > would load faster and take a bit less space. Below are Quackle's > values for one tile leaves. Bear in mind that these are the values of > the actual leaves, not the tiles. To get values of the "tiles", by > which I mean values would make better approximations of longer leaves > when you add them together, subtract about 0.5 points from each of the > consonants, and add about 0.7 to each of the vowels. > > I can make the longer leave values available on the web soon. > > ? 25.57 > S 8.04 > Z 5.12 > X 3.31 > R 1.10 > H 1.09 > C 0.85 > M 0.58 > D 0.45 > E 0.35 > N 0.22 > T -0.10 > L -0.17 > P -0.46 > K -0.54 > Y -0.63 > A -0.63 > J -1.47 > B -2.00 > I -2.07 > F -2.21 > O -2.50 > G -2.85 > W -3.82 > U -5.10 > V -5.55 > Q -6.79 >
