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