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Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#111
After trying a few practice rounds. I don't know if the generator is the same for the daily, but I feel like bonus tiles should be left biased since the board requires starting at the left. Many times with the letters given it was impossible to reach any bonuses which reduces the fun a little I feel.

Or... perhaps allow starting on any tile to try and arrange letter scoring optimally? That might add something as well.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's nice! My only gripe is: any time you click away from the tab, when you click back to it it resets the screen (shuffles the pile and clears any letters you had placed)

Hmm yes ok I just removed the refresh now. The reason it was there is some days I opened the tab on my iphone and for some reason it still showed the yesterdays result rather than the new day's letters. Will have a think of a better way to force the refresh of the letters on a new day.

> The reason it was there is some days I opened the tab on my iphone and for some reason it still showed the yesterdays result rather than the new day's letters.

This'll be the Cache-Control header interacting with tab resume: rather than setting that to expire after X time has elapsed, set it to expire at time=T, and the browser will¹ fetch the new page instead. You'd increase the effectiveness of this technique (and reduce your bandwidth requirements for repeat players) if you made `/daily` a static page, and factored out those JavaScript variables into a separate file, fetched with `fetch` or `XMLHttpRequest` (or even a `` tag, like `wordlist.js` is).

If I've configured my browser to behave otherwise (e.g. it takes me longer than a day to solve each puzzle), I really don't want it overriding that and resetting on me: that would make me very sad.

¹: usually. Firefox Session Restore behaves differently – but that's expected behaviour. Every website ever behaves like that: it's what I expect, because I expect to be able to close my browser and open it again and still have more-or-less the same pages available. After all, I've got a refresh button, but no un-refresh button.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#113
This is really cute. Addictive, even. Which dictionary does it use? Official Scrabble Players Dictionary? Could it say which one in the instructions?

There are words in OSPD (ex. fab) that aren't accepted. It also accepts words (ex. oonts, accas) that aren't in OSPD.

Can you tell I tried it, um, several times? It's fun.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#114

This is really cute. Addictive, even. Which dictionary does it use? Official Scrabble Players Dictionary? Could it say which one in the instructions? There are words in OSPD (ex. fab) that aren't accepted. It also accepts words (ex. oonts, accas) that aren't in OSPD. Can you tell I tried it, um, several times? It's fun.

The Collins Scrabble Words 2019 dictionary!

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#115

After trying a few practice rounds. I don't know if the generator is the same for the daily, but I feel like bonus tiles should be left biased since the board requires starting at the left. Many times with the letters given it was impossible to reach any bonuses which reduces the fun a little I feel. Or... perhaps allow starting on any tile to try and arrange letter scoring optimally? That might add something as well…

Hmm yes it is just random right now and agree often they are impossible to reach!

Will have a think how and if it should be more weighted

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#116

This is really cute. Addictive, even. Which dictionary does it use? Official Scrabble Players Dictionary? Could it say which one in the instructions? There are words in OSPD (ex. fab) that aren't accepted. It also accepts words (ex. oonts, accas) that aren't in OSPD. Can you tell I tried it, um, several times? It's fun.

The Collins Scrabble Words 2019 dictionary!

Oh cool thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#117

This is really cute. Addictive, even. Which dictionary does it use? Official Scrabble Players Dictionary? Could it say which one in the instructions? There are words in OSPD (ex. fab) that aren't accepted. It also accepts words (ex. oonts, accas) that aren't in OSPD. Can you tell I tried it, um, several times? It's fun.

The Collins Scrabble Words 2019 dictionary!

Can I charge you my hourly rate for the last hour I just spent? Bookmarking this, more hours will give their lives for the worthy quest of beating your dad.

Re: Show HN: Can you beat my dad at Scrabble?

#120
The colouring of the double and triple letter squares confused me because they are like the colours on a scrabble board but don’t share the same meaning. I thought TROVE would get me 27 points in today’s puzzle but it was only 11. :-(

Edit: 27, not 24. Another useful thing would be the ability to view the puzzle and your answer. I had to reverse engineer the squares from the possible scores. :-)

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