Nigerians Dominate Scrabble Tournaments Using Five-Letter Word Strategy

Post by yompers888 » Mon, May 23, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #23

chime wrote: post #4

If I understand this correctly, they are applying the Chess strategy of thinking n-moves ahead to Scrabble, where the opponent's tiles are hidden and ones own future tiles are mostly unknown. If you use all the tiles, on the upside you get +50 extra points. The downside is that you leave a lot more room for the opponent to score big since there are more letters on board after your move. Also, you have no control on y…

>> If I understand this correctly, they are applying the Chess strategy of thinking n-moves ahead to Scrabble, where the opponent's tiles are hidden and ones own future tiles are mostly unknown. Yep, Scrabble is a hidden-information, stochastic game (the opponent's future tiles are also randomly drawn). Scrabble is probably more similar to poker and other card games in that respect. The key difference is that the dis…

Post by splonk » Mon, May 23, 2016, 10:43 PM UTC

yompers888 wrote: post #81

YeGoblynQueenne wrote: post #23

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>> If I understand this correctly, they are applying the Chess strategy of thinking n-moves ahead to Scrabble, where the opponent's tiles are hidden and ones own future tiles are mostly unknown. Yep, Scrabble is a hidden-information, stochastic game (the opponent's future tiles are also randomly drawn). Scrabble is probably more similar to poker and other card games in that respect. The key difference is that the dis…

On an unimportant note, jokers are not included in poker, nor in almost any other game. It is my understanding that they exist to use as replacement cards in the case of a lost or damaged card (rather than having to throw out the deck.)