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From: loosemor@esunix.UUCP (Sandra Loosemore)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: looking for scrabble source code / references
Message-ID: <370@esunix.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 12:40:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: esunix.370
Posted: Sun Jun 21 12:40:23 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 05:45:29 EDT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Keywords: computer scrabble

I recently dug up a scrabble implementation for VAX/VMS that I think
originally came off a DECUS games tape a few years ago (it calls itself "P?S
SCRABBLE").  This thing really plays a mean game!!  I got to thinking
about what kind of algorithm it uses -- besides having a huge vocabulary,
it's also quite speedy, so I suspect that it must be doing some kind of
hashing or preprocessing on the dictionary instead of just a brute force
search.  Is there any literature on heuristics for scrabble?  Better yet,
does anybody know of a PD scrabble game I could get source code for?

-Sandra Loosemore
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