Jason--
Thx for the explanation! Good luck with the new version--I'll be
looking for it in March.
Stu
----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Katz-Brown
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [quackle] 2 problems with Quackle in 1 day
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
