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by verisimilidude 4986 days ago
I'm going to love this game right up until someone creates a cheating app/site.
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The game is far more strategy-dependant than vocabulary-dependant. The word list comes nowhere near being exhausted on a given board within a game.

Now, is it possible to write an AI? Sure, and actually, an AI-contest for this game would be a whole lot of fun. It's not simply "generate words" - you could give everyone the word list and the game would still play well.

Not true, for example I've been ruining the game for the past couple hours with a quick (greedy) AI.

Play a couple rounds with words like 'tetrasyllabics', where you completely reverse their blocks, and people just give up :(

Actually, I'm hoping there's someone else out there doing this too, because then I'll need to throw in the blocking logic.

Sounds like a good weekend project to me!
True! Let me fix that.

I'm going to love this game right up until someone else creates a cheating app/site.

Seriously though, cheating apps totally ruin these word games. I remember loving Scrabulous (remember that name?) right up until everyone figured out how to cheat. Then the game just became tedious. Hopefully the tile-taking mechanic in this game will introduce enough strategy to keep play interesting for a while.

But it's not just about who can play a few 10-12 letter words. You need to use the corners and the squares around them to deny your opponent from quickly flipping them back to their color.