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Spent a bit of time last month on multilingual scrabble: what set of ~100, or 150 tiles will allow us to play a good scrabble game in language $X? There's plen
by h2odragon 2y ago
Spent a bit of time last month on multilingual scrabble: what set of ~100, or 150 tiles will allow us to play a good scrabble game in language $X?
There's plenty of word lists on the net to give a sense of "what is a language", and a scrabble simulator script was fun to come up with. So now i have a script that can take a proposed tile set and play a bunch of scrabble games with it in a given language (or group of them) to help judge the viability of the set.
I took it that far because my wife is learning Czech and wanted a tile set as a study aid. Our ~128 tile English set is providing fun on our refrigerator for the whole family as a "walk by crossword game", and the 150 tile czech set seems to be working for the wife. 98 wouldn't be enough for czech; simulator said, and it was right.
I was excited at first about the possibility of sharing the results of my work, but "crossword / scrabble game" is apparently a very narrow niche. Most of the world I can talk to doesn't appear to need a better scrabble set.
I had fun with it, and that's reward enough.