Well, it almost works great. When the bag gets close to empty, a heuristic for the number of tiles left in the bag comes into play and messes things up a bit. This would have little effect on my Taxes Hold Me game, though, because it comes into play at about the same time that the board would get cleared anyway. Still, if anyone has a clever way to zero out this metric, let me know. The heuristic appears to be hard-coded -- at least, a cursory look at the data files I have left doesn't show me the numbers I'd expect to see. Thanks, Dan In a message dated 12/1/2007 8:52:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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. When I want to work in highest-score-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 di If anyone out there is interested in this version of Taxes Hold Me, rules are now available by going to _http://www.neoscrabhttp://www.nehttp://wwhttp://_ (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] a messag 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 Money Finance's list of the _hottest products_ (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) and _top money wasters_ (http://money.aol.com/top5/general/ways-you-are-wasting-money?NCID=aoltop00030000000002) of 2007. **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)
