I decided to sim one of the games from the most recent Mid-Cities tourney. In the game, my opponent went first, exchanged 4, and left me to play with a rack of AGINT??.
When I input the game and let Quackle run a game report, my play simmed 2nd of the 11 choices, but how good was the play in reality? There are 150 bingoes in that rack, plus 31 words that do not use either of the blanks. By my calculations that makes 1144 candidate plays, plus any reasonable exchanges. I tried simming a large number of these plays, and even with the sim set to 3-ply, it was choking badly. My machine is a Centrino Duo with 4MB L2 cache and 2GB of RAM running Vista Home Premium - it's not spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, but it's at least decent. Is it possible to sim something this extensive? If so, what is the best way of going about it? John Redding
