Thanks for this idea, Kevin! I'm not a C++ guy so I did not try to figure out the format of the superleaves file. But I did manage to hack out a solution based on your suggestion. Working in XP, I created a directory similar to the twl06 directory, but with only a worths file -- in which I edited all the numeric values to be zero. Whe n I want to work in highest-score-only mode rather than usual Quackle mode, I swap this directory in place of the twl06 directory. Works great! And I didn't have to cheat and look at the source code at all :-). If anyone out there is interested in this version of Taxes Hold Me, rules are now available by going to _http://www.neoscrabble.com/base.cfm?page_id=1521_ (http://www.neoscrabble.com/base.cfm?page_id=1521) (the site for my upcoming "Purple and Green" tourney, where Saturday night will feature an informal Elyria Rule Taxes Hold Me tourney) and clicking on the appropriate link. We tried a sample game last night and had a great time. This version of Taxes Hold Me allowed low-to-intermediate players to compete with much higher rated Scrabble players ... was a lot of fun ... and of course, much of the success is due to the Quackle guys ... Thanks, Dan In a message dated 11/29/2007 11:27:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > ____________ ____ ____ > Check out AOL Money Finance's list of the hottest products and top money > wasters of 2007. > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)
