Exchanging 1 blank is clearly best. But which one?? Decisions, decisions.
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:24 PM, John Redding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
