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A PEACHY-KEEN PROGRAM

#7818
From: Richard Vannoy
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:05
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So here's a question for programmers.

If you are allowed to pick any seven tiles in Scrabble,
what seven letters (no blanks) would you pick that would 
let you make the most seven letter words?  (Answer below.)

How do I know?  Well, out of curiosity, I wrote a program 
that takes various combinations, like:

    - Just the seven tiles you have (for the first play
      in Scrabble), and you get a list of all words in
      the English language that can be made with any 
      combination of from 2 to seven tiles.  (My Quick-
      BASIC program spits out from just a few words to 
      200 words, depending on the tiles used, in about 
      3 to 8 seconds.)

    - Input the seven tiles you have, and the cross tiles
      you can make words with.  The list shows all possible
      cross words you can make, in order of the point 
      values assigned to Scrabble tiles.

    - Enter just six tiles and you get a list of all 
      possible words you can make using a blank.

Each of the first two variations can search a specially 
prepared 55,000 word dictionary for all possible  words 
that can be made from the given letters in under 10 
seconds.

Now that I've written this wonderful, peachy-keen program,
my question is what do I do with it??  Other than a "How
to Cheat at Scrabble" program, has anyone any ideas on how
this could be packaged or marketed as Shareware in a way
that might benefit Shareware users?

And the answer to the question above is for you to pick the 
following tiles:  E I P R S S T
There are seven different seven letter words you can make 
from these tiles.  I challenge anyone else to pick a better
seven letters.
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From: richard.vannoy@filebank.cts.com (Richard Vannoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: A PEACHY-KEEN PROGRAM
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Date: 26 Jan 93 17:05:00 GMT
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