No as you don't know which tiles are in your opponents rack so there are a 
variety of possible scenarios.  Also the opponent has a variety of possible 
plays for any given rack.  There could be a bunch of moves each of which has a 
variety of responses.  In short I doubt it is rounding error and certainly it 
doesn't have to be 87.5% or below.

Matt

--- In [email protected], "Albert Hahn" <halber...@...> wrote:
>
> Frivolity aside, I would guess that 99.96% would have to be
> a rounding off type error.
> With only one tile in the bag I would think that
> the next lowest percentage below 100%
> would have to be 87.5% (or less).
> 
> Albert Hahn
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: David B.Lewis 
>   To: [email protected] 
>   Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 3:51 AM
>   Subject: [quackle] seeing possible future moves
> 
> 
>     
>   Toward the end of a game, I thought I had made a play that shut down the 
> last bingo lane and assured a win. When I load the position into Quackle and 
> ask Championship Player about the situation, it suggests a few different 
> moves with a 100% win but not the move that I chose. When I specifically 
> enter that move and then simulate, the moves that Quackle had suggested show 
> up as winning 100% of the time, and the move that I chose shows up as winning 
> 99.96% of the time.
> 
>   For the life of me, I can't figure out what could happen in that 0.04% of 
> the situations. There was only 1 tile in the bag at the time, so I've tried 
> all of my opponent's possible racks, and nothing turns up that is a win.
> 
>   Is there any way to get at the information that Quackle uses during a 
> simulation, so that I could either determine that a mistake was made on 
> Quackle's part (and that my move was a sure thing) or find out just what 
> terrific move my opponent may have had?
> 
>   Thx in advance.
> 
>   PS: ideally, I'd like Quackle to say "Great move, but you missed the remote 
> possibility of your opponent's disconnected thirteen here". On a related 
> note, in a previous post, I thought it would also be useful to show where 
> moves played, so that I could see, for example, that 75% of my opponent's 
> responses to my move use a hook that I had opened up or a hot-spot that I had 
> created or a spot I didn't block.
>


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