Thanks to those who answered me about the wobbling board.
I've just been through a game and wanted to post the position to uk-scrabble
list, so I used the
Convert To Text feature, copied it to Notepad and pasted it. The result is
below, leading to three
points:
1) The wide Tracking------ thing causes grief for any regular mail program. I
altered my copy of
Thunderbird to cope with wide lines in order to post it, but I'm sure most
email readers will screw
it up again. Can you move the tracking to underneath to avoid this?
2) The board is jigged halfway down because the row numbers change from
single-digit to
double-digit. Again, can you fix this please to make positions emailable*?
3) Does anybody know the answer to my actual query? I have now put in all eight
of Nick's possible
racks from ACEGIORS and none of them gives a win after JEFE.
Stewart
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [uk-scrabble] LEST position
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 22:42:03 +0100
From: Stewart Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: UK Scrabble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I was faced with this at the very end of yesterday's match against Nick Deller.
I chose JEFE (a1)
scoring 48 for 95pt lead, confident this would survive any bonus Nick might
have from the eight
tiles left. Quackle insists this only wins 75% of games and that this is the
best possible winning
percentage, but I can't see any feasible bonus Nick might have had which would
lead to a win. The
potential bonuses I can see are:
CARGOES or ORACIES (3c)
CARIOSE (3d)
SOCAGERS or SCARIOSE (d6)
None of these are enough to win, unless I just can't add up. So why is JEFE
only 75% successful?
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O Nick ------- 336
------------------------------ -> Stewart EEFJNTY 383
1|= ' = ' =|
--Tracking-----------------------------------
2| - " " - | ACEGIORS 8
3| - ' ' W |
4|' S - R O T A T I N G|
5| Q F O B - N |
6| U N S E x E D G I L D " |
7|B A ' N O V A I |
8|I N ' O I L H E C K|
9| D ' ' V R |
10|A E " D O W " |
11|U R - E I - Z I T |
12|R - P O L E A x E S|
13|O - X U ' L I E|
14|R - P U T T Y A H A|
15|A ' E ' M M|
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As a sidenote, the above board contains three X tiles thanks to POLEAxES and
UNSExED.
Cheers,
Stewart
