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by BurningFrog 549 days ago
It would be interesting to determine how few words a Scrabble program needs to know to be a world class player!
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It will be probabilistic, because of the randomness of the draw. More words = greater chance of high scoring words for this board and draw. It likely wouldn’t take many words at all to beat a workd class player 1% of the time, and a pretty substantial vocabulary to win 99% of the time.

Actually, 99% may not even be achievable because sometimes your opponent will just luck out with letters and board lineup.