What happens if you do a sim with 0 moves ahead.
It will give you high scoring moves, but it will have rack evaluation.
To remove rack evaluation too, I guess edit the superleaves file so
all leaves are valued equally.
Kevin Leeds
On Nov 29, 2007 8:20 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> OK, so this is like using a machine gun on an ant, but ... what is the
> easiest way to find the highest-scoring move with a given rack and board
> using Quackle?
>
> I'm asking because of a variation on Taxes Hold Me that I'm working on
> ("Elyria Rules" Taxes Hold Me). It's Texas Hold 'Em with Scrabble tiles
> instead of cards. In this version, the highest scoring word gets added to a
> Scrabble board (in addition to winning the pot). Also, just as in poker "the
> cards speak for themselves," here "the tiles speak for themselves" -- with
> Quackle's help.
>
> But it can be frustrating to find the highest-scoring move, as it often is
> not near the best play as judged by the speedy player -- especially if it
> uses strong tiles or leaves multiples on a rack.
>
> I've tried copying all moves into a spreadsheet so I can sort. But even when
> all moves are highlighted, a control-C just grabs one cell to be copied, not
> all the highlighted cells.
>
> I've also tried clicking on the column headers, as that sorts by that column
> in many apps. But not in this one ...
>
> If there is no better way than looking through all possible scores, so be
> it. But then please consider the preceding two paragraphs to be feature
> requests :-).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
> OK, so this is like using a machine gun on an ant, but ... what is the
> easiest way to find the highest-scoring move with a given rack and board
> using Quackle?
>
> I'm asking because of a variation on Taxes Hold Me that I'm working on
> ("Elyria Rules" Taxes Hold Me). It's Texas Hold 'Em with Scrabble tiles
> instead of cards. In this version, the highest scoring word gets added to a
> Scrabble board (in addition to winning the pot). Also, just as in poker "the
> cards speak for themselves," here "the tiles speak for themselves" -- with
> Quackle's help.
>
> But it can be frustrating to find the highest-scoring move, as it often is
> not near the best play as judged by the speedy player -- especially if it
> uses strong tiles or leaves multiples on a rack.
>
> I've tried copying all moves into a spreadsheet so I can sort. But even when
> all moves are highlighted, a control-C just grabs one cell to be copied, not
> all the highlighted cells.
>
> I've also tried clicking on the column headers, as that sorts by that column
> in many apps. But not in this one ...
>
> If there is no better way than looking through all possible scores, so be
> it. But then please consider the preceding two paragraphs to be feature
> requests :-).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>
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