Dan, Something is weird in the last message you sent that keeps me from replying directly to it, so I pasted it below:
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 I cannot imagine you go all the way through the end game (either hands would then go from 7 tiles down to possibly even 1 tile if you stayed true to the game, or you would fill up the board if you did not). So, since you must start again from a fresh board at some time before the actual end of the game, why not just start over from a fresh board when there are less than the number of tiles in the bag that triggers the endgame heuristic? Steve
