On Jan 24, 2008 5:01 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>         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.

That's weird, I'll look out for such an anamoly.

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>         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.
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It's a bug in the current Quackle version that Championship Player
always returns 0% winning percentage in the endgame, regardless of
whether a play wins or loses :-/

Thanks,
Jason

>         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.
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> Stu Goldman 

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