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??.
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> 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
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