As I previously reported, I play with the 20-second version when I get
up in the morning. This AM. I was down by about 75 points with about 25 unseen
tiles,and had a junk rack--the Q (with no places to play it) and only1 vowel,
an E. I didn't like any of the plays suggested, so I clicked on "ask
Championship Player". The best choice there waa to exchange 5 tiles, keeping
ER. When I did that my new rack contained the Q! This had never happened
before when I tossed the Q. I aborted the game immediately since it no longer
bore any relationship to reality.
Later, playing with Championship Player, I was comfortably ahead and
had the rack AAEORTT, while Player 2 had 5 consonants including the P and H. I
had a play picked out and looked for it among the choices, but it was not
there. I asked Championship Player, and it gave a play of 2 vowels, with a
winning % of 0! I went back to the list of choices and typed in my play
(T(E)AT, with 2 places to go out with AERO) which blocked a place for Quackle
to gert a DWS with the P and H plus one other consonant. This scored a 100%
win, along with most of the other choices. I played it, and Quackle played PHT
for 47 points elsewhere.
I should mention that I play with the Collins 07 lexicon. I also tried
to look up that second game's board, but when I clicked on History nothing
happened.
Stu Goldman
