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  • Category: Word Games
  • Founded: Jul 29, 1999
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A list for programmers of word games. Very technical, no strategy or game tips. Contact wordgame-programmers-owner@yahoogroups.com for more information.

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Re: How to model probability of cheating?
... If this was on isc.ro, you have access to your opponent's rack during the game itself, at any time, and you can draw any tiles you want out of the bag. If
Posted - Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:31 am
 David Jones
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Re: How to model probability of cheating?
If this was on isc.ro, you do have access to all his racks after the game (and up to ten games back), with the examine feature. Some other site, couldn't tell
Posted - Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:43 pm
 Michael Turniansky
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Re: How to model probability of cheating?
The chances of the seventh letter being another E given TEASE? is 4.3%. But we'll never know the probability that he had a bingo that he could find in that
Posted - Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:00 pm
 Patrick Niesink
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Re: How to model probability of cheating?
Yeah, you're right...I should forget it. What I meant was not that he had any access to the letter sequence but that he was using Lexpert or some other
Posted - Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:44 am
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Re: How to model probability of cheating?
The probability of drawing 7 tiles which make a 7-letter word is about 12% -- not all that rare. If one of the two tiles left on his rack after TEASE was a
Posted - Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:25 pm
 Patrick Niesink
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