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Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System
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."
What are they gonna do, send them a letter?
Scrabble: The Collectible Tile Game!
You bring your own tiles and devise a set that gives you optimal word options. And the loser is banished from the land of Dominaria.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
What is that, some kind of ripoff of Words With Friends?
...seriously? That's the sort of tenuous, grasping-at-straws discussion hijack the rest of us would come up with when we think we're JOKING about Stupid America's gun fetish.
Q: How many NRA members does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: More guns.