Super Scrabble

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Jul. 15th, 2006 | 08:50 am

Super Scrabble was created recently, so I'd expect the letter distribution to be better. Having double the number of letter tiles (196) makes the best fit different for each dictionary:
Best fit for TWL:
11 tiles: E
10 tiles: S
8 tiles: A, I
7 tiles: N, O, R, T
5 tiles: L
4 tiles: C
3 tiles: D, G, M, P, U
2 tiles: B, H, Y
1 tiles: F, J, K, Q, V, W, X, Z

Best fit for SOWPODS:
11 tiles: E
10 tiles: S
8 tiles: A, I
7 tiles: N, R, T
6 tiles: O
5 tiles: L
4 tiles: C
3 tiles: D, G, H, M, P, U
2 tiles: B, Y
1 tiles: F, J, K, Q, V, W, X, Z

Barring the zero tile rule, J and Q wouldn't have any tiles. X would have one for TWL, but none for SOWPODS.

The Super Scrabble distribution does horrifically using this metric:
Mean squared error versus TWL:
Super Scrabble : 90.7515169087742
Best Fit TWL: 0.143839388321553
Best Fit SOWPODS: 0.180594466944665

MSE versus SOWPODS:
Super Scrabble: 91.4580904851635
Best Fit TWL: 0.165195680628715
Best Fit SOWPODS : 0.151734983822096




It looks like they just took the regular scrabble distribution, doubled it, and then tweaked it a bit. Hrm.

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