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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. I thought you'd nearly scratch the 400 but the last move really took the score a notch higher. Nice finish. RUS is a proper noun since it ...

Ok, start a new game and give us more time for suggestions. This could be fun. It already takes about 3 hours to play a game at 10 minutes per move ;) And it takes a lot of thinking since I don't look up words or anything... if I give people loads of time between words I think they will be more inc...

Clearly this tune which Vanilla Ice thought up whilst on the toilet one day is a derived work and not a copy

Other words I considered this game, and have now checked OVO - no JUTED - no. JUTE is good though which is why I thought of it. VOO - no TOVE - no. "'Twas brillig, and the slithey toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe" is the opening line from Jabberwock (Lewis Carroll poem) but that is fa...

I'm definitely better against the CPU when I do something like this and have to explain my thinking and take my time. Usually I'm half drunk and playing first good word I see :lol: Your suggestion at the end was good too, better than QUA and left a better rack. I wouldn't mind playing the QL one but...

In case you are wondering, QANAE is not a valid word ;) I think there is something a bit like that which also has a Q in it though which is probably why I thought it might be ok. RAZ and TAZ both bad good job I didn't risk those either. I think FRITZ was the only risky word I played that game. Today...

Rag across Fritz? Yeah that's good, think I will play that then, cheers! Can it play out or will I get another go to try and beat the 400 barrier? https://i.postimg.cc/1XyyXsnP/game3rack15.png It plays PUR, in the same spot as the last game I think lol ;) https://i.postimg.cc/HWtpKcRL/cpu3-14.png S...

Japanese Ri — The Distance Walked in an Hour Don't know why it's not in the list though. It's a bit arbitrary which words are allowed from Foreign languages. LI is something similar (Chinese) and that is allowed. RI is (sort of) pronounced as LI in Japanese anyway ;) I think RE is the only 2 letter...

sn3j wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 10:20 pm my tip was Cure across Beaty fwiw, but too late again

I don't think RI is allowed? (I'm correct about that)

QANAE is ringing a bell but not going to try it lol. I will look it up at the end though. I might want to keep hold of F and L in case I draw the U for JOYFUL

Just realised I had moved an extra tile from my "letters played" section of the scrabble box from the "letters available" side of the box (or I started with one in the already played section that was hiding). Letter was an E by the way ;) But that took a while to sort out (had to...

Demo beneath Beau ? Nice opening btw. That would have scored 29 (maybe 30, can't do maths for some reason tonight lol) so was better than my play! I'm not that good at spotting long parallel plays, well done. Could play ANODE/OBO/BED/AE but not sure about OBO. Must be something better anyway I thin...

Well still have all the tiles at hand from my Scrabble set and not got much else to do. If you participate remember no cheating searching for words until after the game... If you do cheat to find a good play put it in a spoiler so I don't see it. I go first again (3rd time in a row!). Finally see a ...

I realised I could play COATINGS to bingo out as well, thought I'd check if there were any other possibilities, one with a C in position 4 would have been ideal for a 9x bingo, looks like none available though https://i.postimg.cc/t4zDd7Px/anagrams.png Didn't know COTINGAS. Didn't even consider AGNO...

Some people are incredibly consistent at beating Nethack though (I've never beaten it since it is so damn hard of course!). That has had years of balance applied though I spose. Similar thing applies to other "random" games like FTL on PC (which is also excellent)... they are so well balan...

Export to C is probably best option yeah. * Not too hard to convert C to ASM if you need to speed it up as long as the C compiler emits understandable and readable code. You may want an option to export data as DB or DW or DG though. DB for binary data, DW for tables of pointers, DG for graphics (si...

Think I am going to be COASTING to another win lol, right at the end ha ha. It should have blocked that one if it doesn't challenge. LOL it knew about it, didn't challenge, obviously does not consider moves I may make even when it knows exactly what I have left. Maybe it doesn't even know what tiles...

Well OoT was written in C.

You want specific objects to communicate to nearby spaces the actions they have available probably so if you are standing there it adds it to your available actions. May want priorities for the actions then obvs.

Well that's just Ocarina of Time which was probably first game to do that right. Not that hard to design and program.

Decided to risk STATION with DAT, pretty sure it will be denied though I want to find out one way or another whether DAT is good though so I remember it lol https://i.postimg.cc/TY3Drr5X/risk.png Gets challenged... Yup it's bad. As you were :( Still got STATION on rack though. Let's hope I don't get...

I agree... played it. No challenge. It's a variant spelling of FUSE I think. OE n pl. -S a whirlwind off the Faeroe islands? Might have another meaning as well. Thought that would be a proper noun otherwise. New rack, still no blank, looks ok though https://i.postimg.cc/ZnFhfB9k/game2rack10.png CPU ...

I’d not heard of Scrabble Deluxe for the Spectrum. I wonder why it’s in black and white when the original had plenty of (and useful) colour? I’m sure some Googling would tell me but I’m currently warming myself by our fire pit in the garden and I can’t be bothered trying to figure it out on my iPho...

So I think I want to hang onto FUZ + S cos I know FUZE(s) is good, seen this very program play that against me before. There's only 3 E's left in bag though but there are still 2 blanks missing. XJ only big scoring tiles left and there's the K (=5) still in the bag too. So wanna play with BII I thin...

you could use blp for bloop nvm, too late Yeah I was looking there earlier as well. Let's see if ENE was ok... Yup ENE n 1: the compass point midway between northeast and east [syn: {east northeast}, {ENE}] I would have thought that was capitalised always myself, allowed in SOWPODS though So missed...

I decided to go with RETUNED. ENDURE scores 3 less and I'd rather have an E instead of a U on rack. ENDURE leave of TE is good though as well. RETUNED is challenged. Of course it is valid, computer just doesn't know about it. (valid in SOWPODS and US). Well I did pick up a Q immediately afterwards l...

Note / At / Me ? That only scores 18 and still leaves triple lane wide open... think I have to use one of the triples to minimise the damage on the CPUs next turn. Also the rack leave is poor UERE. RETUNED just keeps an E. Don't think I've got a bingo through the D. I've also got ENTERED for 24 but...