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  • Math scrabble implementedDatum14.09.2020 11:57
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #23
    No, I didn't. Check the history to find out that OliverGalvin edited the page for Math and Tamil.

    If I understand correctly, then Alexlatham96 edited the page for Math and Tamil. OliverGalvin just fixed a broken reference link at the bottom of the page to this forum yesterday.

    By the way, I do not personally like having fractional tiles. Decimal tiles which can serve only terminating fractions and not non-terminating repeating ones serve better for this purpose.
    There are lots of different fractional tiles possible for them to fit into Scrabble (Equate) board properly to form a valid mathematical equation.
    Everyone will have their own tastes of board layout and tiles distribution.

    Post 3 in this thread gives a distribution for 100 tiles for Maths Scrabble, without any blank tiles used at all. 3 blank tiles was an arbitrary number that was used by Alexlatham96 in Wikipedia page.
    Seeing the similarity in Maths Scrabble tile distributions in post 3 in this thread in this forum and Wikipedia page, I assume that Alexlatham96 only took that data for Wikipedia page from post 3 in this thread in this forum.
    Math Scrabble was updated to its latest version in Scrabble3D application on 12 March 2014 and Maths Section in Wikipedia article was created by Alexlatham96 on 2 May 2017. Link to Equate (game) in Maths section in Wikipedia article was added by OliverGalvin on 30 July 2020.
    I got hold of Scrabble3D application from the Wikipedia page on Scrabble tile distributions for different languages. When it said about Maths Scrabble I got the link from it, which I had been longing to play it for a long period of time and trying out with an experience upon it.

    Anyway that, in my own humble opinion that, for best results Maths Scrabble is to be played with separate racks for each of the players for digits, operators and =.
    Some kits available from shop make use of numbers ≥ 10, and that discourages forming equations with longer numbers.

    By the way, this is the tile distribution for Maths Scrabble according to the latest version of Maths dictionary that is uploaded to the sourceforge page for the Scrabble3D application.
    This information is not posted earlier on into this thread for Alexlatham96 to take that data from over hereby to adopt it in Maths section in Wikipedia article.
    I only kept on posting my own different versions of researched and optimal letter sets for Maths Scrabble earlier on into this thread for other people's reference and analysis purposes only.
    LetterCountPoints
    180
    063
    1101
    282
    374
    473
    573
    674
    765
    864
    964
    46
    ×46
    ÷37
    +46
    .38
    !110
    ^19
    ²110
    ³110
    37
    110
    110
    >110
    <110
    Total117437

    ∞, >, < are not good to be present in the letter set for Maths Scrabble.
    What mathematical equations have ∞? And lot of possibilities with < and >.
    < and > will not restrict possibilities. It will allow players to form wild mathematical equations with random high scoring points at player's wish.

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum13.09.2020 15:41
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1817520/equate
    To play, you have to put in a true equation on the board.
    Words such as those like 73, 3 ²/₄, 739 ²/₆ and 42 on Equate board and 54 and 46 on tile images on board and not that are played with actual tiles on Equate board does not make sense over thereby.

  • Tamil ScrabbleDatum13.09.2020 13:39
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Tamil Scrabble

    Who is Alexlatham96 (not me) who added up Scrabble letter distribution for Tamil Scrabble on Wikipedia page (just today!)? Anyone from here simply?
    I want to talk with you. Can you please register in this forum and talk with me? If you are a Tamilian, will you be interested in trying out an online game with me on 21×21 board with 220 tiles, may be to start up with?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_l...ributions#Tamil

    Some facts in that Tamil Section in Wikipedia article need revising. Scrabble3D application is a game in which board size, board layout, letter distribution, points for tiles, number of tiles in rack, dictionary words, etc. everything can be set according to player's wishes.

    Zitat
    Tamil-language sets use these 1000 tiles:


    I created 1000 tiles to experience 15×15×15 3D Scrabble board played games and to give people a precise idea on frequency of each Tamil letter in dictionary so that people will be able to downgrade or upgrade from there for smaller or larger letter sets depending upon their own wishes.

    Zitat
    Tamil scrabble is played on a 45×45 board, and 20 tiles are on a rack at a time.


    It can be also played with smaller boards with smaller letter sets, or larger boards with larger letter sets. I first tried it out on a 45×45 Scrabble board just simply to test if the dictionary is fine by running and executing a demo with only 4 of computer players, not as opponent players. And also for precisely representing the frequency of letters that are rarely made use of in Tamil language. Number of tiles in rack can also be anything between 15 and 20. Slightly lesser than 15 is also OK. But as that number gets too low, it does not provide much of flexibility to form words and open up board with larger boards for large and diverse number of (various) different letters in Tamil language.

    Was this statement made only solely by looking at my first post of mine in this thread and not remaining of the posts and screenshots of board positions and images that are attached in this thread?

    Zitat
    Also, ஙி, ஙீ, and ஙூ have no tiles because these letters do not exist in any Tamil words.


    This is only according to Tamil Lexicon dictionary, that is published by University of Madras, https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/tamil-lex/. There may be words that contain those Tamil letters that are not present in that dictionary at all. But that in Scrabble3D application, if a word does not exist in the dictionary, then it is not necessarily invalid, but can be accepted and placed on Scrabble board if other human players as opponent players (either online or offline) agree to it by means of consensus by making use of poll as a voting mechanism. While playing with other computer players as opponent players (only offline and never online), only approval from us as a human player is needed and a word will be accepted and placed on Scrabble word even if it is a phony for that particular language.

    Zitat
    2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)


    This is wrong. In my Tamil letter set that I prepared with, I did not make use of any blank tile at all and including that will bring with the count of total Tamil letters that are made use of to 1002. Please check it out by yourself also, with that thing.
    In my own humble opinion, by means of scaling from conventional English Scrabble rules, if blank tiles are used, then they will be 20 in number for 1000 tiles.

    Total number of tiles comes out to be 992 (excluding 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)) according to, as per my own calculations. Please check it out by yourself also, with that thing.
    One or more Tamil letters seem and appear to be dropped out and so that needs revising. I will come back with the revised data later on.

    ந் ×8 for 3 points seems and appears to be dropped out over thereby, isn't it?

    In my own humble opinion, Tamil section in Wikipedia article can be kept like this:
    Mention about Sorkalam game at first, https://twitter.com/sorkalam and https://www.instagram.com/sorkalamthegame/, which is played on 17×17 Scrabble board and makes use of 90 wooden tiles (for representing with pure vowel letters and for representing with pure consonant letters), 55 glass tiles (for representing with hooks that are added on to any of consonant letters) and 20 blank tiles. At most 1 glass tile can be overlapped on top of each of wooden tile. 1 blank tile is allowed per player per turn.
    Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game is played with 2 separate racks for each of players containing with 8 wooden tiles and 6 glass tiles. Post a link of Amazon version of that played game in the Wikipedia page, https://www.amazon.in/Sorkalam-Word-Boar...99995514&sr=8-1

    Or a link to separate Wikipedia page: 'See also Sorkalam (game)' for Tamil Scrabble section in Wikipedia article if one exists exclusively for it or that if that Sorkalam game designer will be willing to create one exclusively for it to discuss about everything in that Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game in detail.
    That will be in a separate Wikipedia page, just simply like 'See also Equate (game)' for Maths Scrabble section in Wikipedia article.

    After that, write that an alternate letter distribution by Scrabble3D application makes use of my letter distribution.

    I also think of creating a more difficult (keep it as separate) version of Tamil dictionary with 1000 tiles by making use of digraphs and trigraphs for representing each of Tamil letter. This will have larger and diverse number of (various) different Tamil letters and so number of tiles in rack should be as high as 20 so as to provide much of flexibility.
    In this version of Tamil Scrabble, letters like கெ and கொ can be considered as 1 single tile.

    People can choose to play between easy or difficult version of Tamil Scrabble depending upon their own tastes. In difficult version of Tamil Scrabble, digraphs and trigraphs are made use of for representing each of Tamil letter. In easy version of Tamil Scrabble, they are not.

    Note that I have not included with any blank tile because already 20 tiles in rack is used to provide much of flexibility. Also that if needed for difficult version of Tamil Scrabble in which digraphs and trigraphs are made use of for representing each of Tamil letter, one tile can be changed to blank tile per turn (Control + Right Mouse Click) if What-If-Only variant is enabled in it if players can be able to score at least 20 points or more in that turn (adjustable too). If that is not possible when one tile is converted to blank tile in a turn (Control + Right Mouse Click), that player has to pass with their own turn and that letter will remain as blank during the next turn as well. This is very much useful during endgame when some tiles, easy or difficult, are not possible to be pushed away, and it will remain as a race to several players whoever will be able to empty their racks at first and grab all of points from other players. Hopefully that in this situation, it should be possible to push away all of tiles in racks by any player without stagnating any thing at end and played game ending by all players passing away with multiple times.
    I have also not made use of any random tiles also to precisely represent frequency of each Tamil letter for 1000 tiles as they would occur in that Tamil Lexicon dictionary, that is published by University of Madras and to avoid redundant and difficult to play letters that come if they are ever included into them.

    So that Tamil Section in Wikipedia page on Scrabble letter distributions need revising. Please give me 1 week of tile to prepare about it.
    It can also say that Tamil language hooks of u sound (ு) and oo sound (ூ) are missing from Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game played with glass tiles and that Scrabble3D version handles them. They can be only used by blank tiles of which 1 is allowed per player per turn.
    Words containing 2 ு letters like நுணுக்கம் can only be played if 1 of ு letter is already there on board as blank tile and that another of ு letter should also only be played with blank tile. Words containing 3 ு letters like சிட்டுக்குருவி cannot be played until 2 of those exist already in board in straight line by using blanks with the correct distance inbetween them.

    In Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game, Sanskrit letters of ஸ, ஜ, ஷ, ஹ, க்ஷ, ஶ்ரீ and ஶ can also only be played with blank tiles. Tamil letters of ஶ், ஶ, ஶி, ஶீ, ஶு and ஶூ are not mentioned in Tamil section in Wikipedia article.
    I left out with ஶ because it is very rarely used in Sanskrit loanwords and Valluvan Tamil font does not support it.

    In most cases, Tamil letter of ச should be a good substitute for Tamil letter of ஶ except perhaps when ஶ் combines with ரீ to form with ஶ்ரீ.
    In Valluvan Tamil font, separate Tamil letters for ெ, ே, ை and ா cannot be properly represented. But that is for easy version of Tamil Scrabble. In difficult version of Tamil Scrabble in which digraphs and trigraphs are made use of for representing each of Tamil letter, words that contain with ஶ can be included back again whenever that I make use of Unicode Tamil font for best results, ever.

    I wonder whether exotic things like Scrabble with perfect squares, triangular numbers, Roman numerals, etc. along with their own letter distributions and points for each letter could be added up to that Wikipedia page.

    It is really very much of fun in playing by that way, just simply.
    Scrabble with mathematical equations should be open to everyone in the world and not limited to speakers of a specific language, if it would be made popular with everyone all round the world anyway and if any tournaments are conducted with them anyway.
    Scrabble with perfect squares and triangular numbers are lot of fun to play with 7 or 8 tiles in rack but cannot be played by people without the aid of any helper tools to be suitable for tournament play unless a player can by heart all such list of numbers by heart in memory and can recall from memory in an instant.
    Scrabble with Roman numerals is also a lot of fun to play with 7 or 8 tiles in rack and should be open to everyone in the world without the aid of any helper tools and should be suitable for tournament play.

    People may be downloading and using my own prepared Tamil Scrabble dictionary in Scrabble3D application.
    Either that just that they are not connecting with me to test and play games with me simply or that download statistics in sourceforge page may not be showing up properly.

    I say this because of the fact that points of each of Tamil letter in Tamil section in Wikipedia article have been prepared from my latest uploaded version of Tamil dictionary on sourceforge page and not from my earlier posts in this thread in this forum.

    Just simply that 2 downloads are shown in India, both by me in Windows operating system and in Ubuntu operating system as that of Virtual Machine inside that of Windows operating system by making use of Oracle's virtual box.
    And that I assume that most of Tamil official language speakers are only in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore for such countries to be shown in download statistics in sourceforge page. Tamil language may not make much of sense outside of these territories, isn't it?

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum13.09.2020 13:26
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    Scotty: Seeing post 3 in this thread, I just want to ask whether it was you who updated Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions for Maths Scrabble. If so, will you be interested to update it to a more spicy version, so that people might consider that as some standard for someone or some company to begin mass production of such Maths Scrabble tiles for them to be considered for any rated tournaments if they were to be held somewhere several years later on?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_l...tributions#Math

    Zitat von Raman im Beitrag #16
    This set of letter distribution for Maths Scrabble would be furthermore interesting and provides furthermore diverse set of mathematical operators and points for tiles of Scrabble with mathematical equations than the tile distribution given in Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions.
    The one that is loaded in free Maths dictionary that comes along with Scrabble3D application makes use of different 117 tile set than the one given in Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions, but makes use of manually unusuable mathematical operators like ∞, < and > and they are only present in few meaningless mathematical equations in the free Maths dictionary that comes along with Scrabble3D application.

    Math sets use these 100 tiles:

    2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
    1 point: ×18, 1 ×8, 2 ×7
    2 points: 0 ×6, 3 ×6, 4 ×6
    3 points: 5 ×6, 6 ×6, 8 ×5, + ×3, ×3
    4 points: 7 ×5, 9 ×5, × ×3, ÷ ×3
    5 points: ×2
    6 points: ² ×1
    7 points: ³ ×1
    8 points: ×1
    9 points: ^ ×1
    10 points: ! ×1, . ×1
    To play, you have to put in a true equation on the board.
    Zitat von Raman im Beitrag Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.
    So, I have made use of 61% of tiles as digits compared to 58% for yours (Wikipedia's). It encourages players to form maths equations with longer numbers. Does it make sense on a small 15×15 board?
    To balance, number of operators should be as much the same as number of = at least. I used 18 = with 19 operators, but you (Wikipedia) have made use of 20 = and 22 operators. Does it not cause problems in played game, whatever with furthermore number to stagnate at the end? Because short words does not exist in number Scrabble, it is very difficult to completely finish off with all of remaining tiles at the end of the played game. For rest of them assured if every digit in pairs such that equalities category can be made use of, or if some maths equation occurs with n×0=0, 0=0×n, 0=0^n or n^0=1 such that hooks can be attached onto them just simply, all of those maths equations does not exist as words within Maths language dictionary math.dic at all, within into upon upto.

    What-If-Only variant is well suited for number scrabble within adjustable number of tiles within rack.
    Number scrabble smaller board size, 2D or 3D played with 10 tiles in rack.
    Number scrabble larger board size, 2D or 3D played with 12 tiles in rack.

    Also that in IPA English, ɝ letter is missing in it, may be that ɝ ×3 would be good enough and ŋ ×1 may be updated to ŋ ×2 to bring the total to 110 tiles and seeing the frequency of occurrence of ŋ letter in CMU pronouncing dictionary, I think that it would be wise enough to have 2 tiles for it instead of 1 for 15×15 Scrabble board that is played with (approximately) about 100 tiles.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_l...ons#IPA_English

    I just came across Equate game from the Wikipedia page on Scrabble letter distributions for Maths Scrabble. It is played on 19×19 board with 150 tiles.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equate_(game)
    Everyone will have their own tastes of board layout and tiles distribution.
    https://www.conceptualmathmedia.com/
    Look at this:
    https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1817520/equate
    Fractional tiles like ½, ⅓, ⅔, ¼, ¾, etc. are used in that Equate board played game but no tiles like √, ², ³, ∛, ^, !, ., mod, ⁴ and ∜.
    It is possible to include mathematical equations with fractions in maths dictionary and simulate it in Scrabble3D application, unlike Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game in which overlapping of at most 1 single glass tile (for representing with hooks that are added on to any of consonant letters) on top of each wooden tile (for representing with pure vowel letters and for representing with pure consonant letters) is not supported.

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum12.09.2020 20:48
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    (Just fibbing) Make wooden tiles for Maths Scrabble and sell them for profit to raise money to finance the Premium Tariff for this Scrabble3D forum.

    Note: It will be much cheaper if they are printed on chart paper, pasted on cardboard sheet and cut with scissors. But that wooden tiles will be attractive to most people who would psychologically prefer playing with them. Just that it is worthwhile to compare the rates of wooden tiles with that of tiles made out of cardboard sheet and chart paper.

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum10.09.2020 16:56
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    Points for some of the difficult to play tiles could be higher, to give computer signal to take those tiles seriously and not to stagnate many of such tiles in its rack by giving priority to high scoring words formed by making use of next tier of high scoring tiles.
    This might not necessarily apply for playing with other human players, online or offline, along with other computer players as opponents or not because especially experienced human players tend to play wisely enough, by knowing which of tiles are difficult to play in what situations and that would be depending upon any of type of Scrabble board position also.

    This would be suitable for Tamil Scrabble especially when playing with digraph tiles and trigraph tiles for representing with each of 1 single Tamil letter, where there are a lot of letters which have a few words that contain them with.
    For Scrabble with mathematical equations, things like decimal point could be formed only with longer equations only when such suitable tiles for using it form beautifully upon player's rack especially with lower number of tiles in rack and it is furthermore difficult to play when board gets filled up as game progresses with fewer and fewer enough vacant spaces for playing it. The possibility of short words is completely ruled out in Scrabble with mathematical equations and so it is very difficult to push all tiles by players at end of played game, especially in 2D boards rather than, instead of 3D boards without ending games by all players passing with some number of tiles stagnated in each of player's rack. Shortest mathematical equations of length of 3 include 0=0, 1=1, 2=2, 3=3, 4=4, 5=5, 6=6, 7=7, 8=8 and 9=9 and there is no limit for longer ones. There are more and more mathematical equations possible as length of mathematical equations increases up.

    ⁼ 1 point.
    0 2 points.
    1 1 point.
    2 1 point.
    3 2 points.
    4 2 points.
    5 3 points.
    6 3 points.
    7 4 points.
    8 3 points.
    9 4 points.
    − 3 points.
    × 4 points.
    ÷ 4 points.
    + 3 points.
    . 10 points.
    ! 9 points.
    ^ 8 points.
    ² 6 points.
    ³ 7 points.
    √ 5 points.
    ∜ 10 points.

    Number of points in the scale from 1 to 10 would be assigned for at least for 1 single letter.
    It does not matter how frequently or how rarely that letter would be made use of for in the letter set of for larger 2D boards and smaller 3D boards.

    More tiles of smaller digits with lower points for them would be good enough because they are much easier to play than bigger digits or not necessarily, but that they would much more frequently occur in leading digits.
    I personally do not prefer leading zeros or trailing zeros after decimal point.

    And that more tiles for even digits with lower points for them would be good enough because they occur much more frequently at unit's place for multiplication and division than odd digits. Odd × Odd = Odd, Odd × Even = Even, Even × Odd = Even and Even × Even = Even. Similarly that would be also for digits 5 and 0 on an other hand viewpoint and that on an other perspective viewpoint.
    I personally do not prefer leading minus before a zero.

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum10.09.2020 14:49
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.
    Sure, ideally you get in contact with the original author. Otherwise I would take your "much better version" opinion without hesitation if there is another user's word. In case of math.dic it's not too difficult to check myself.

    8 types of possibilities can be considered for each of type of mathematical equation as follows:
    A+B=C, B+A=C, C-A=B, C-B=A, C=A+B, C=B+A, B=C-A, A=C-B.
    D×E=F, E×D=F, F÷D=E, F÷E=D, F=D×E, F=E×D, E=F÷D, D=F÷E.

    Having more numbers will encourage players to form mathematical equations with longer numbers, but that:

    If the ratio of numbers to operators and = in letter set is too small, then as the game progresses, all numbers can be easily pushed away in one move but operators and = accumulate in player's rack discouraging players to play mathematical equations with longer numbers.
    If the ratio of numbers to operators and = in letter set is too large, then at the beginning moves there might not be good balance of numbers and operators and = in player's racks to make good and valid play.

    So whenever designing a letter set for Scrabble with mathematical equations, these things have to be taken into mind.

    I am talking about this for large letter sets for larger 2D boards and smaller 3D boards which other people might not be patient enough and interested enough to play for that long, either short time games played at a stretch or long time games played over a span of lasting for several days.
    I don't think that most of other people would be patient enough and interested enough in playing games with Scrabble boards beyond that Classic Scrabble 15×15 2D board and Super Scrabble 21×21 2D board.

    I have created designs for board layouts for larger 2D boards and smaller 3D boards which I might only make use of.
    Different people will come out with their own designs for board layouts and nothing may be perfectly accepted standard right now and may be that would be so in the future also.

  • Word puzzles.Datum10.09.2020 11:56
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Word puzzles.

    Zitat von Raman im Beitrag Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.
    By the way that plural of bingo - which is correct, bingos or bingoes? It seems and appears that both are present, available and correct currently in CSW2019 dictionary that is supported and loaded along with latest version of Collins Zyzzyva PC application, not mobile application, that is 5.1.1, at the time of writing this and downloading that just into my own computer simply.

    BINGOS BINGOES
    CONGOS CONGOES
    MANGOS MANGOES
    DRONGOS DRONGOES
    FLAMINGOS FLAMINGOES
    all above are valid.
    AGGRI - AGGRY
    APPUI - APPUY
    BASSI - BASSY
    BENNI - BENNY
    BIALI - BIALY
    BLINI - BLINY
    BOOAI - BOOAY
    BUFFI - BUFFY
    BUSTI - BUSTY
    CAMPI - CAMPY
    CARDI - CARDY
    COMBI - COMBY
    CORNI - CORNY
    CULTI - CULTY
    CURLI - CURLY
    DASHI - DASHY
    DILLI - DILLY
    ENVOI - ENVOY
    FARCI - FARCY
    FILMI - FILMY
    FUNDI - FUNDY
    GLOBI - GLOBY
    GOBBI - GOBBY
    GUMMI - GUMMY
    HAPPI - HAPPY
    IMSHI - IMSHY
    KAURI - KAURY
    LASSI - LASSY
    LATHI - LATHY
    LURGI - LURGY
    MARRI - MARRY
    MOCHI - MOCHY
    MOOLI - MOOLY
    MURRI - MURRY
    MYTHI - MYTHY
    PAPPI - PAPPY
    PARDI - PARDY
    PARKI - PARKY
    PARTI - PARTY
    PENNI - PENNY
    PETTI - PETTY
    PRIMI - PRIMY
    PULLI - PULLY
    PUTTI - PUTTY
    RANGI - RANGY
    SATAI - SATAY
    SWAMI - SWAMY
    TANGI - TANGY
    THYMI - THYMY
    TUTTI - TUTTY

  • Maths Scrabble Puzzles.Datum10.09.2020 11:21
    Thema von Raman im Forum General

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.
    As you write in English, I think it is okay if you start a new thread here in the English section on General and call it "Maths Scrabble Puzzles".

    I actually thought that it would be much better of in a 1 single post in 'Maths Scrabble implemented' thread in 'More languages' forum in 'International' group in this forum,
    and especially if it were for this 1 single post, puzzles to be included here only for spotting a bingo and not for spotting a best move that connects 2 premium word score squares and not that connects 2 premium letter score squares and if puzzles are to be entirely from my own played games only and not from any other sources of other people, for example, Scrabble club WhatsApp group whoever would be primarily and only be focused upon entirely just English Scrabble only simply.

    Find a bingo in this board position.

    Find a bingo in this board position.

    Find a bingo in this board position.

    Find a bingo in this board position.

    Find a bingo in this board position.

    And that just simply that this is a compilation of 5 different puzzles from my own played games that have been posted at all of types of places in this forum and that would be primarily and only in 'Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application' thread in 'Bugreports & Suggestions' forum in 'English' group in this forum.
    By the way that why is it 'Bugreports & Suggestions' and not 'Bug reports & Suggestions'?

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum10.09.2020 11:06

    Some clarifications about your wordings in your forum posts:

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag Tamil Scrabble
    Don't find obvious issues with the dictionary. But since you replace every character my sanity checks don't bite. Some minor issues: I'm not happy with 1k tiles. It's easier to multiply the number (there is a control on top of the list) than shrinking. Maybe you have numerous rarely used characters that need a frequency of zero, which would multiply to n in that case. But even then, isn't it easier to adjust these zeros to ones? Perhaps I'm wrong and you cannot play classic Scrabble at all and need super large boards.

    Besides this, may I use your name and email address in the header? Credits and questions belong to the author.

    What do you mean by 'my sanity checks don't bite'?
    By the way, why do you use 1k tiles instead of 1000 tiles?
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #75
    >version of Lazarus IDE and FreePascal
    Try with 2.4, not sure. And perhaps Lazarus ~1.0, but if you compile from source it might be not so crucial.

    What do you mean by 'it might not be so crucial'?
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #77
    Sorry, it's not possible to have a letter more than once on the distribution table. And actually I think it would over-randomize the game.

    What do you mean by 'it would over-randomize the game'?

    Superscript equals (⁼) is used in maths dictionary instead of ASCII character of = because ASCII character of = is a reserved symbol in dictionaries.
    Earlier on modular congruent to symbol (≡) was used in place of superscript equals (⁼) to serve for that purpose, as it can be seen in earlier posts in 'Maths Scrabble implemented' thread in 'More languages' forum in 'International' group in this forum and in Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions.
    Right now that in maths dictionary, superscript equals (⁼) is used, because it looks much better than even subscript equals (₌), as it can be seen by anyone whoever downloads Scrabble3D application with maths dictionary and plays a game of Maths Scrabble in it, with its own default letter distribution or player's own modification of letter set of Maths Scrabble according to their own wishes, depending upon or not, whether meaningless, useless and incorrect symbols such as those like ∞, < and > are removed from letter set of Maths Scrabble according to their own wishes.
    Anyway that ≡, ⁼, ₌ are non-ASCII special characters and not be supported by making use of keyboard or even by making use of on screen keyboard for any of operating systems because of the fact that it is not even part of Latin Supplement category of character set or Latin Extended A category of character set or Latin Extended B category of character set.

    Reserved symbols in dictionaries, that cannot be made use of for in dictionary words, include that of:
    = separator between word and meaning in dictionaries and separator between placed words and other attributes in saved game files.
    ; separator between meaning and category in dictionaries and separator between placed word and connected words in saved game files.
    , separator between attributes in saved game files.
    ? made use of for jokers in saved game files until a letter is assigned for it during play (whenever that tile appears on rack and a letter is assigned for it during play either by making use of human players or computer players).
    , and ? symbols are not used in dictionaries but only in saved game files, so that confusion can be caused for computer whenever that making use of Scrabble3D application while in process of writing to saved game files and reading from saved game files, ever.
    On the other hand that ! symbol is only made use of in Scrabble3D application as a placeholder for not yet shown random tile chosen at the start of played game that are not shown to players until they come to player's rack and not shown to opponent players from a player's rack until that tile is placed upon Scrabble board (why is that so?) that is displayed as tooltip text whenever mouse hovers upon Scrabble3D application area to display all of tiles that are remaining in bag and that can switch over upon to display between player's scores, number of tiles that are remaining in bag and amount of time that is left for each of players.
    In any case that ! symbol is not part of reserved symbols in dictionaries and saved game files and can be made use of for in dictionary words. So that it can also be made use of for in replace characters in dictionaries without any doubt that it would not work out while in process of writing to saved game files and reading from saved game files. In Maths dictionary, it is made use of for in factorial symbol and so that I also bravely used without any of type of doubt as a replace symbol in my own prepared version of Tamil dictionary, whether making use of digraph tiles and trigraph tiles or not for representing each of 1 single letter in Tamil language by itself.

    Any random tile configured in played game in Scrabble3D application is assigned a letter at the start of played game and so that is assigned while in process of writing to saved game files and reading from saved game files.
    Only that specific and particular letter is not shown to players at start of played game and ! symbol is displayed as tooltip text whenever that mouse hovers upon Scrabble3D application area to display all of tiles that are remaining in bag ever.

    What if Scrabble game that is started to be played is saved at the start of the played game, then such mystery tiles would be openly known to all of types of players that are reading it and that human players as well as computer players would be available to play offline. Knowing random seed would let know sequence of tile generation in Scrabble3D application by making use of computer program (easy) or by making use of manual calculation (difficult) if a human player whoever would be playing offline allows and permits other human players and themselves to just do that simply.
    Online games that can be played only with other human players and not with other computer players does not allow saving of games played until they are completed. Best move calculation and seeing other player's racks are disabled until game played is completed, so is also seeing meanings of dictionary words whenever mouse hovers over upon any of type of placed word in any of type of language upon Scrabble board if challenge state is enabled until game played is completed. Online games played will be stored in server that would be visible to ordinary online players for 14 days since the last move had been made and after that they would be archived and that they would be made visible to ordinary online players only by the Scrabble3D application administrators and not by making use of any of type of ordinary online players.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum09.09.2020 20:42

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag Tamil Scrabble
    Don't find obvious issues with the dictionary. But since you replace every character my sanity checks don't bite. Some minor issues: I'm not happy with 1k tiles. It's easier to multiply the number (there is a control on top of the list) than shrinking. Maybe you have numerous rarely used characters that need a frequency of zero, which would multiply to n in that case. But even then, isn't it easier to adjust these zeros to ones? Perhaps I'm wrong and you cannot play classic Scrabble at all and need super large boards.

    Besides this, may I use your name and email address in the header? Credits and questions belong to the author.

    What are obvious issues that you would find in any dictionary that would be provided to you for uploading to sourceforge page?
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag Wörterbuch bearbeiten
    Die Verschlüsselung ist genau dazu da - verhindern, dass Unberechtigte das Wörterbuch missbrauchen. Du solltest dich in dem Fall mit dem Autor in Verbindung setzen und ihn nach der orignalen Klartextliste fragen. Falls es um das deutsche Wörterbuch geht (ich glaube, alle anderen sind unverschüsselt), dann wäre @Gero dein Ansprechpartner.
    Und falls du nur kleine Änderungen vornehmen willst, geht das auch im Dialog der Wortsuche.

    Who are unauthorized persons and what do you mean by abusing the dictionary in terms of an open source project?
    Any person can edit the dictionary at their own wishes for their personal use and unless the dictionary uploaded on sourceforge page is vandalized, it cannot be abusing the dictionary.

    math.dic is protected dictionary and if that dictionary were not encrypted then characters like superscript equals (⁼) which is used in math.dic could be replaced by some other ASCII character in Ubuntu platform where dragging and dropping of tiles by mouse from player's rack to Scrabble board does not work out due to some issue. But that this type of issue might have been occurring only for me so far.
    Anyway that it would be much better for me to create a much better maths dictionary for myself with my own new fundamental operators (like modulo and cube root instead of fourth root) and replace all of non-ASCII characters in the maths dictionary by making use of ASCII characters to make use of that in any operating system, either primary operating system in a computer or secondary operating system that is loaded into a virtual box in another operating system, but anyway that unless parsing of mathematical equations to check for validity and for computer play is implemented in Scrabble3D application, the number of mathematical equations is unlimited for a dictionary, may be too much even for upto a certain length.
    If I prepare and give you a much better version of math.dic, then would you be interested to upload that in sourceforge page to share that with everyone else in the world on top of another existing math.dic that is already existing on sourceforge page that is prepared by someone else?

    The more the number of equations in a maths dictionary, the computer would take more time to play depending upon the board size, larger 2D or smaller 3D. May be that it would be useful only for human players online or offline where a maths dictionary is not even required, opponent players can accept or decline any other human player's move by means of a poll.
    Anyway that maths dictionary also makes use of some meaningless equations like ∞>15, ∞=∞+1, 0=-0-0 and incorrect equations like 18+5=13, 18-9=7, 0^0=1. All of these types of things can be avoided if I were ever to create my own maths dictionary. Also that there are only 2 mathematical equations with ∜ in the maths dictionary, that are, 2=∜16 and ∜16=2.
    And also why fourth root operator is given priority to be included in the maths dictionary than modulo and cube root? Also that is there any absolute need for making use of a dictionary whenever playing with other human players online or offline? One of the fancy things about Scrabble3D application whenever making use of any dictionary is that meaning of words are displayed in tooltip text if they are included in the dictionary along with the words themselves whenever that mouse hovers over any placed word by any of the Scrabble players, human players or computer players, on the Scrabble word.
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #85
    "As of release 3.1.4 you may also place tiles per keyboard..." You enter the coordinates first and word afterwards. If your keyboard has no access to a character, which is the fact for square root, this procedure wont work of course.

    One of the ways to handle placing of non-ASCII special character tiles on Scrabble board by typing with keyboard in Scrabble3D application is to make use of on screen keyboard. It provides access to some more of non-ASCII special character letters but not all of them. It also supports Tamil keyboard, International phonetic alphabet and accented characters for some other languages.
    I do not make use of Tamil Unicode font for Tamil Scrabble because it would not be nice to have separate Tamil characters for ி, ீ, ு, ூ and ் both in Tamil dictionary and in Tamil language Scrabble board. So, I replace dual letters by making use of Latin Supplement character set and also Latin Extended A character set and Latin Extended B character set if making use of digraphs and trigraphs, the more difficult version of Tamil Scrabble needing more tiles in each player's racks if Tamil letters of ெ, ே, ை and ா are not separated and overlapping of at most 1 single glass tile on top of each of wooden tile is not supported as in Scrabble3D application.
    But that I observed that as like Latin Script character set, Scrabble3D application confuses uppercase and lowercase for Latin Extended A character set and Latin Extended B character set but not for Latin Supplement character set so that it is better to make use of another Unicode category of letter set for that instead.

    On screen keyboard does not support characters like superscript equals (⁼) which is used in math.dic. Is it possible to also include Unicode character set into it which can be scrolled across 256 different pages just by scrolling simply? More to look over upon that by researching upon the Internet just by browsing different websites and web pages simply.
    If the character set is small for any specific dictionary and if that particular dictionary is not protected, then non-ASCII special characters can be replaced by making use of some other ASCII character in dictionary, to handle placing of such tiles on Scrabble board by typing with keyboard in Scrabble3D application. Examples of them include maths dictionary, English phonetic dictionary with or without making use of digraph tiles like aɪ, eɪ, ɔɪ, aʊ, oʊ, tʃ, dʒ and language dictionaries of some of Western languages that are written by making use of Latin Script that also make use of some of accented Latin Supplement character set besides that of regular Latin Script character set that are also just included into them simply.
    Zitat von Raman im Beitrag #35
    Spot the bingo in this board position.
    These are good puzzles to give to people who are interested in scrabble with mathematical equations.
    I would not post anything furthermore about things that are not related to conventional English Scrabble in the KSSA main group since majority of subscribed players are not interested in it.
    But you had shown interest in them before itself.
    (My previously sent images and posted messages to you contain information and details about all of these types of solutions, I believe in them so).

    These are furthermore good puzzles also to give to people whoever would be just interested in scrabble with mathematical equations simply.



    Word puzzles thread in General Forum in English group in this forum could just be made use of simply for English Scrabble puzzles and that this thread or elsewhere for non-English Scrabble puzzles.
    Or that would new thread over thereby would be good enough exclusively for that? Anyway that it would not be good enough to post same things more than once in this forum and that I might not play again any more games of this like these for furthermore puzzles like this, and I might instead spend my own time furthermore on things that would pay me after enjoying enough of different flavours and variants of Scrabble in Scrabble3D application during 6 months of COVID-19 lockdown, and puzzles with a bingo move especially like this would require a lot of games to play than just to find out simply a best move in a board position or connecting 2 of premium word squares and not that of 2 of premium letter squares just for non-English Scrabble puzzle simply.

    By the way that plural of bingo - which is correct, bingos or bingoes? It seems and appears that both are present, available and correct currently in CSW2019 dictionary that is supported and loaded along with latest version of Collins Zyzzyva PC application, not mobile application, that is 5.1.1, at the time of writing this and downloading that just into my own computer simply.

  • Word puzzles.Datum06.09.2020 17:42
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Word puzzles.

    I think that these puzzles should be of interest to all of types of Scrabble word cracking gamers:
    https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/razorz/word-scrambles

    Insane anagrams!
    Can you fill this themed crossword where all the across words are anagrams of another across word?
    https://www.sporcle.com/games/BookishGir...-of-my-insanity

    www.sporcle.com is a website where people can play all of types of quizzes in all of types of subjects.

    In General Forum, in that main forum, and not in any of its subforums, I use 'Scrabble stories and spot the best play puzzles' thread to discuss about cracking words in different Scrabble board positions and 'Word puzzles' thread to discuss about cracking words in different situations that are not in Scrabble boards.
    Cracking word puzzles are related to Scrabble and hence to Scrabble related forum only. Though, I can talk about other off topic messages that are not related to Scrabble in Café forum, I am not paid for that and also that there is no end for that either.

    crosswordlabs.com is a website where people can solve all of types of crossword puzzles in all of types of subjects.

    Colour crossword:
    https://crosswordlabs.com/view/colour-bingos

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum05.09.2020 15:48

    So please clarify to me with these two things:
    (1) Please tell me what Pascal file in the source code handles placing of tiles by typing with keyboard, so that I will know about what Pascal file in the source code needs to be modified in order to suit with my own needs.
    (2) (a) Is it possible to save a protected dictionary by myself alone by making use of Scrabble3D application, or that is it only possible by the administrators (with what tool?)? Scotty, you could alone do that or can Bussinchen also do that?
    (b) It is possible to browse through even all of types of the protected dictionary words by myself alone by making use of File → Word Search (Ctrl + W) option as a feature in Scrabble3D application. Is it possible to convert a protected dictionary (such as math.dic) into unprotected one by myself alone by making use of Scrabble3D application automatically? Not manually browsing the words one by one and adding them to a text editor, That would be rather an impractical and unwieldy process in any way.
    I don't think that it would be possible because as the name says 'protected', the very purpose of protecting a dictionary is to restrict other people from accessing, reading and editing any of dictionary words. I just clarified with you about it, simply. So that there is no part (2) (b) question, sorry, just please answer only for my own part (2) (a) question, simply.

  • Word puzzles.Datum05.09.2020 14:45
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Word puzzles.

    Find out the 3 letter word from each of these following clues:
    https://www.sporcle.com/games/paranoid_a...3letterwordrace
    (i) Opposite of Cold
    (ii) Canine Animal
    (iii) Not In
    (iv) One More Than Nine
    (v) Sight Organ
    (vi) Drinking Establishment
    (vii) Female Parent
    (viii) Writing Implement
    (ix) Snouted Animal
    (x) Feline Animal
    (xi) Hearing Organ
    (xii) Not Dry
    (xiii) Male Parent
    (xiv) What We Breathe
    (xv) Not Near
    (xvi) Number Immediately Before Three
    (xvii) Not New
    (xviii) Not Wet
    (xix) To Cook in Oil
    (xx) Not Good
    (xxi) Male Child
    (xxii) Come First in a Race
    (xxiii) Female Bird esp. Chicken
    (xxiv) Upper Limb
    (xxv) Spider's Creation
    (xxvi) Number Before Two
    (xxvii) Flying Mammal
    (xxviii) Headwear
    (xxix) Not Thin
    (xxx) To Purchase
    (xxxi) Plural of Man
    (xxxii) Used For Unlocking a Door
    (xxxiii) Firearm
    (xxxiv) Lower Limb
    (xxxv) Female Sheep
    (xxxvi) Period of 24 Hours
    (xxxvii) Female deer
    (xxxviii) Coastal Water
    (xxxix) Not Small
    (xl) Pixar's '___ Story'
    (xli) Male Sheep
    (xlii) Honey Producing Insect
    (xliii) Unhappy
    (xliv) Insane
    (xlv) Past Tense of Hide
    (xlvi) Not High
    (xlvii) Stop Sign Colour
    (xlviii) Uncooked
    (xlix) One less than Seven
    (l) Deity

    Name off at least 10 3 letter body parts:
    https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/3letterbody

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum05.09.2020 10:25

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #85
    If your keyboard has no access to a character, which is the fact for square root, this procedure wont work of course.

    I expected that.
    By the way, keyboards in mobile devices contain some more non-ASCII characters, although not all of them, for them to be typed directly from the keyboard, but Scrabble3D application in mobile devices is not supported yet.
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #83
    Yes, see http://scrabble.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Usage:2D-View

    You answered to my question without reading and understanding my question fully, didn't you? I clearly mentioned non-ASCII characters in my question.
    ASCII characters are those which can be directly typed from the keyboard, along with 33 other control characters.

    English phonetic Scrabble, Scrabble with mathematical equations and non-English Scrabble in some of the Western languages that make use of Latin Script that also use some diacritic marks other than regular Latin Script characters have only small number of distinct characters in them for those non-ASCII characters to be replaced by regular keyboard characters and for them to be used in Scrabble3D application for placing them in Scrabble board by typing them with keyboard.
    Tamil Scrabble uses large number of distinct characters that they all cannot be mapped into ASCII character set just by replacing, whether using digraph and trigraph tiles for each of 1 single Tamil letter or not. Scrabble3D application currently does not support overlapping of at most and exactly 1 vowel glass tile on top of each of consonant wooden tile to form Tamil letter combo of consonant and vowel. Editing the source code and compiling it on my own with all the modifications done to do that would be a lot of effort if games of Tamil Scrabble are to be played in that way in Scrabble3D application and the search patterns of words for computer players as opponents also need to be modified if games of Tamil Scrabble are to be played in that way in Scrabble3D application.

    Just as I simply edited the source code and compiled on my own with all the modifications done to increase the maximum Scrabble board size to 100 and changing the Scrabble board co-ordinate labels accordingly, I can also do my own modifications to the source code to handle placing of tiles in Scrabble board in Scrabble3D application by typing with keyboard for all of those non-ASCII characters. For example, square root (√) tile can be typed by making use of UTF-8 format of encoding escape sequence: \xe2\x88\x9a.
    Playing around with the changes in the source code is all of them in my own hands right now and that placing of tiles by typing with keyboard is right now only needed for me for only my own made changes to the source code.

    I can also try out to fix the issues in Scrabble3D application that does not allow placing of tiles by typing with keyboard in columns (ranks) that have a '0' in them and in beyond those top 26 rows (A-Z files).
    So please tell me what Pascal file in the source code handles placing of tiles by typing with keyboard, so that I will know about what Pascal file in the source code needs to be modified in order to suit with my own needs.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum04.09.2020 21:41

    Sorry, I did not find the link that was given by you useful. It mentions only about the Latin Script ASCII characters.
    How do you place a square root (√) tile by typing from the keyboard? Its Unicode number is U + 221A, I believe. And there is no Alt + keystroke combination beyond the first 256 Unicode characters, I believe.

    It is needed when I try out to make my own changes to the source code, compile it on my own by making use of Lazarus Free Pascal compiler and run (execute) it.
    It is needed at least in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) where due to a missing function in gtk2 LCL widget type, it is impossible to drag and drop any tile by making use of mouse from player's racks to Scrabble board. In Windows, that is not a problem, but Scrabble3D application crashes with segmentation fault during computer's turn. In Ubuntu, that is not a problem.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum04.09.2020 10:19

    Is it possible to place tiles of non-ASCII characters and other Unicode characters by typing with keyboard? At least by typing Alt + 0215 or U + 00D7 that would be multiplication sign for example.
    Or at least by copying them from character map or Unicode table in web browser, for example, and pasting them in Scrabble3D application?

    For placing joker tiles, exact non-ASCII character need not be typed for placing with keyboard, instead we can choose an ASCII character in dictionary but that is not in player's rack.
    And then Scrabble3D application will always prompt for the letter to be substituted for joker tile when that tile is moved from one square to another in Scrabble board. Here I assume that at least some amount of ASCII characters, one or more will be used by every dictionary, including Tamil Scrabble, whether games in that dictionary using such Scrabble boards are played using digraph and trigraph tiles to represent with 1 single letter in each of such tiles or not.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum03.09.2020 22:21

    Zitat von Raman im Beitrag #79
    But nothing is perfect yet.
    More to investigate...

    Unlike Windows, it is not possible to drag and drop files from the rack to the Scrabble board.
    Mouse changes to a 'not allowed' icon on the Scrabble board.

    It is due to a missing function in gtk2 LCL widget type in Ubuntu in Lazarus Free Compiler. Switching over to some other theme might solve the problem, but the rest are all even worse which are loaded with 'sudo apt-get install' version of Lazarus in Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa).
    Switching over to gtk3 might solve this problem given that gtk is deprecated, but it is in alpha stage that comes along with Lazarus and not full developed version. May be that gtk3 latest developed version should be manually imported to Lazarus IDE and that might solve the problem.

    While making my own changes and compiling Scrabble3D application on my own with Lazarus, in Windows the Scrabble3D application crashes during computer's turn and in Ubuntu it is not possible to drag and drop tiles by mouse from player's racks to Scrabble board. May be that such things might work well and fine in some other version of Linux, who knows? I would be able to try that out with Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, OpenSuse and Novell versions of Linux.
    4 GB of RAM is allotted each time to Ubuntu Virtual Machine while running that with Oracle Virtual Box so that it executes with speed. Sometimes after keeping that Ubuntu Virtual Machine running for long period of time, Windows slows down. Windows requires restarting to get back to normal and original speed again.

    In Ubuntu, it is not possible to drag and drop tiles by mouse from player's racks to Scrabble board. However, it is possible to place by typing with keyboard. This should not present a problem for tiles of ASCII characters such as Latin Script letters used for English Scrabble and Roman Numerals, or ones played with pure numbers like perfect squares, triangular numbers, perfect cubes, etc.
    Is it also possible to place tiles of non-ASCII characters and other Unicode characters by typing with keyboard? This refers to playing Scrabble game with mathematical equations containing non-ASCII maths symbols, English phonetic Scrabble containing symbols from International Phonetic Alphabet, Tamil Scrabble and non-English Scrabble with other western languages that are written in Latin Script but those which contain special characters such as non-ASCII diacritics and accented mark letters.

    Is it also possible to place tiles of non-ASCII characters and other Unicode characters by typing with keyboard? At least by typing Alt + 0247 or U + 00F7 that would be division sign for example.
    If Maths dictionary were not protected by its own author, then every non-ASCII character could be mapped to ASCII character and played. But is it possible to save dictionaries without protection by using Scrabble3D application? And that all of protected dictionaries were only saved by using Scrabble3D application? In Tamil dictionary, there are too many letters to only use ASCII characters, even without using digraph and trigraph tiles to represent with 1 single letter in each of such tiles.

  • Find a bingo in this board position.
    Who is a genius (an expert) in cracking bingos (bingoes) that contain with one or more blank tiles in the rack?

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum01.09.2020 21:03
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    Zitat von xyz im Beitrag #8
    Could it be done automatically: change the letterset math symbol amount to zero if the corresponding category is not checked? Perhaps this is unnecessary.

    It does not make much of sense to change the letter distribution table count of a math symbol to 0 if a category is unchecked, but the other way does make sense.
    If a math symbol is manually changed to 0 in the letter distribution table, then the players can manually decide upon what other tile can be replaced instead of that math symbol, while maintaining the total count of all tiles, including jokers and randoms to a round number, say a multiple of 100 depending upon the size of the board, 2D or 3D.
    It would be good to maintain an overall balance percentage between tiles of numbers and tiles of (operators and =). In the ratio of 3:2 for 100 tiles (15×15 2D boards) to 2:1 for 1000 tiles (45×45 2D boards and 15×15×15 3D boards). This would be to always ensure balance and flexibility of number tiles and non-number tiles for smaller tile sets in smaller 2D boards and to encourage players to form mathematical equations that contain with longer numbers for larger tile sets in larger 2D boards and 3D boards, smaller or larger.
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #3
    I guess we need a little bit more flexibility to play smoothly.

    One way to have more flexibility is to increase number of pieces in the rack between 9 to 12, depending upon the player's tastes, size of the letter set (number of squares or cubes in 2D or 3D scrabble board respectively) and whether players have to be encouraged to form mathematical equations that contain with longer numbers.
    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #5
    Using more pieces on the rack provides more flexibility, of course. But what's about 1+1+1+1=4, or 5/2=2.5, 1<2, 7/3~2 etc.

    The other way to have more flexibility is to have multiple racks, just like Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game, one entirely for numbers (size would be 7 or 8), another entirely for operators and another entirely for = (size would be 1). May be that players should not be allowed to form mathematical equations that contain with more than 1 single =? I personally do not prefer that, but it would depend upon each of player's tastes. This set up will always ensure to form a mathematical equation to be played in Scrabble board most of the time and less of swapping of tiles and passing of turn at the end of the played game whenever there are not enough tiles that are left over in the bag to swap tiles, due to imbalance and lack of flexibility between number tiles and non-number tiles.
    For Scrabble with mathematical equations to be played interesting and enjoyed by players whoever would be playing it, a number tile should contain at most 1 single digit in it. Some kits that would be available from shops might contain tiles that would contain multiple digit numbers and that would discourage players from forming equations with longer numbers.
    Some of the things might be part of trade secret to fool customers whoever would be buying them, attracted by their pack and look and feel, for example that English Upwords larger size pack for ₹400 is 8×8 board with 64 tiles but that of smaller size pack, travel pack, for ₹225 is 10×10 board with 100 tiles.

    ு and ூ are missing from Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game and entire game is played by everyone just like a handicap, avoiding words that contain them. They are part of core Tamil and they are frequently used. They can only be played with blanks, and that is at most 1 blank is allowed for each player per turn. Words containing 2 ு letters can be only be played if one of ு letter is already there on board as a blank tile and that another of ு letter would also only be played with blank tile. Words containing 3 ு letters are impossible to be played.
    The cost of Sorkalam Tamil Scrabble game in Amazon is ₹1200. If everyone else does like what I did in my own 2014 make, printing out Scrabble board and Scrabble tiles on chart paper, pasting them on cardboard and cutting them with scissors, the entire process will merely cost only around less than ₹200 (first I did it for 21×21 English Scrabble seeing that it would be so much of cost to buy the real kit from abroad, then I did it for Tamil Scrabble and later on I did it for Scrabble with mathematical equations). That way, people can pick up their own letter distribution, points for tiles and printed extra tiles to ensure different letter distributions in different games. Still more and more people are interested in buying Sorkalam game from Amazon that does not even have the complete letter set (no ு and ூ vowel combos that are printed on transparent tiles which are part of core Tamil and those that are also frequently used). Wooden tiles are just a sign of attraction for people to buy them and that people psychologically prefer more to play with wooden tiles than ones made out of that from cardboard and chart paper, isn't it?

    This way that anyone could also run business and earn money by making and selling wooden tiles for Scrabble with mathematical equations, English phonetic Scrabble, etc. that might not be readily available in shops. Scrabble with mathematical equations is open to people all around the world and not limited to speakers of a specific language.
    Administrators of this Scrabble3D forum could also make profit by this type of way, may be to raise money to finance the Premium Tariff for this Scrabble3D forum for every year if it would not be possible for Bussinchen to pay money out of her own packet every year from Saturday 1 August 2020 onwards.
    Abhijit Shilotri of Karnataka State Scrabble Association (Bangalore Scrabble Club) owns Ahaa Furniture Store (https://www.ahaa.in/) and he can be able to make anything out of wood, Scrabble board, Scrabble tiles and Scrabble rack.

    My own provisional distribution of Maths Scrabble tiles for 100 tiles:
    Tile Count Value
    ----- ----- -----
    ⁼ 18 1
    0 6 3
    1 8 2
    2 7 2
    3 6 3
    4 6 3
    5 6 4
    6 6 4
    7 5 5
    8 5 4
    9 5 5
    + 3 6
    − 3 6
    × 3 7
    ÷ 3 8
    √ 2 7
    ^ 1 10
    ! 1 10
    . 1 10
    ² 1 8
    ³ 1 9
    ∛ 1 9
    Blank 2 0

    This set of letter distribution for Maths Scrabble would be furthermore interesting and provides furthermore diverse set of mathematical operators and points for tiles of Scrabble with mathematical equations than the tile distribution given in Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions.
    The one that is loaded in free Maths dictionary that comes along with Scrabble3D application makes use of different 117 tile set than the one given in Wikipedia page for Scrabble letter distributions, but makes use of manually unusuable mathematical operators like ∞, < and > and they are only present in few meaningless mathematical equations in the free Maths dictionary that comes along with Scrabble3D application.

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