Spectrum Computing

Have you played German version of scrabble as well? I heard that lets you have 8 tiles on your rack (obvs the letter distribution and points per letter will change a lot, Z is probably worth 1 or something lol, presumably Y is worth 10?). I guess there's no umlaut letters or sharp-S either? Does th...

Not sure if AGIO is valid, so it's a risk. I think FAG and FLAX or FLUX or one of the triples on right side is the play. I think TOS is ok (tos and fros?) don't think FLUXS or FLAXS is though. Not 100% on TOS either. TO takes T and ER takes A or S on right hand side. Agio is a financial term, Itali...

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2024 10:07 pm I looked up XUS after the game yesterday. It's not allowed, XU only.

I'd want more points for an S than that though I think. I want to play either FLAX, FLUX or take out one of the triple word scores on the right.

Right, I thought Xus is ok.
Za / Agio then, maybe.

Maybe Stag, then cross with Xus. If Stag is valid.

CPU is now 100+ short. Interesting to see if this is going to beat the previous score.
I'm occasionally off now.

Yeah Za/Ag and then maybe Stag on it, if it's valid though.
But I suspect it's closing the Ag somehow.

Nice move.
I think Zag is valid.

btw Fret was valid but not Fel
Yeah, great rack but board's a bit messy.

What about Bret, Fret, Treb? Anything valid?
Vibe would open up the triple, not so good.

Thx. The rack looks like you could get a Bingo, if you're careful.
Problem is the words are all lumped together at the moment.

So it's used up 2 'E's. How many vowels are in play?

Ok, sure. And Jetbike sounds unfamiliar to me btw.

Shouldn't it count 59? 3x 9 + 3x 10 + 2 (EL). I'm no Scrabble player btw. Just unsure.

Yops. It's also securing the triple to the right.
CPU might try to add an 'S' or 'ON' though (Jeton).

Jet across Artic methinks, to lock the triple

Or Art and then put Ice in front of it. Just a thought.

AR ? Just to prevent building upon it.

My idea for the last tiles was RUS across Ghosts (old name for Russian tribe) but that would have caused trouble as it's not valid for some reason I don't know. And IN to get rid of the N.
I thought you'd nearly scratch the 400 but the last move really took the score a notch higher. Nice finish.

well done

Rag across Fritz?

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 10:27 pm I don't think RI is allowed? (I'm correct about that)

Japanese Ri — The Distance Walked in an Hour
Don't know why it's not in the list though.

my tip was Cure across Beaty fwiw, but too late again

Demo beneath Beau ? Nice opening btw. Oops, I didn't see your recent edit for some reason. Nvm then.

If you're into word games then have a look at this little Flash gem: https://flashmuseum.org/alpha-assault/

You could use the Plot routine to do that (mentioned a bit earlier here ). You just need to derive from it a new routine that checks the bit at position in DE. Then you can do this: ld de, 0x0000 ; pixel pos where to check: (0,0) = top-left corner ld hl, 0x0080 ; pixel pos where to draw: (0,128) ld ...