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You may have noticed the new page – Words With Josh
I play words with friends (a scrabble rip-off basically) with a few people on my iphone, and I wanted to wrap some intelligence around finding the optimal word based off what letters were already played. Now, I do not condone the act of cheating when you’re playing the game. I was more intrigued at the logic that your brain does to determine what words to play. Scrabble is a measurable science, and there is always a best word to play, it’s just a matter of whether you know that word and whether you recognize where to place it.
I at first wanted to write a complete scrabble game, that would track the entire board and value changing tiles, so that you could play against a computer. I could still do that, but I would think that no one really wants to play scrabble by themselves, right?
So I set off to at least code what could be useful -IF- you decided to use it as a reference tool. I made a version available through the blog but also a better mobile version for iphones and such here – http://sixf00t4.com/wordswithjosh. Give it a shot. It will help you find anagrams, words with letters in specific places, and even includes the option for blank tiles. I was thinking about adding the functionality to set letter spaces as score modifiers (triple letter, double word, etc), but I got lazy and really just satisfied with what I have now. It’s all php and mysql. Let me know what you think!
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