Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @07:03AM from the and-anagram-generator-detection dept.

innocent_white_lamb writes "A researcher says that some letters are over valued and some are under-valued in Scrabble, due to recent changes to the lists of allowable words. Z and X are now much easier to play and should be worth less, while U, M and G should be worth more than they are now. Joshua Lewis wrote a program to re-calculate the value of each letter to better reflect the current usage. The co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association says that he often hears criticism of Scrabble's scoring system, but any change would bring about 'catastrophic outrage'. A spokesman for Mattel says that they have no plans to change the game."

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Aww, that's cute... by korgitser · 2013-01-16 07:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Did the engineer lose a game to his momma again? Suck it up, big boy!

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Change Scrabble!!!??? by Boawk · 2013-01-16 08:19 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I bet that scofflaw Bush is behind this. Him and Halliburton.