My best wins on pos1999's Scrabble (Hard & Pro) Click the Flag to start animating my 5 best Games played on @pos1999's amazing Scrabble project then: Click the Stage to see the next Play ... and repeat. Use the Down arrow button to jump to the next Game. Use the Up arrow button to restart the current Game, if it had started, or jump back a Game if it hadn't. ***NOTE***: If you want to take on @pos1999's game at the Hard or Pro Levels, it might be worth looking through these games and committing to memory some of the many weird words you will discover are actually real words and can be played. It is extremely important to learn as many of the allowed 2 and 3-letter words as you can.
Thanks mainly to @pos1999, for sharing his fantastic Scrabble project, about a week before I made this one. He got me playing Scrabble again for the first time in 20 years. I had to create this project since the Hard Level game here, was the highest score I'd ever got in a game of Scrabble, which is not bad considering I hadn't played at all in the intervening 20 years & I didn't know many of the words his AI plays. Eg. in that game I did not know DINGE, MEG, ZEDA, KUFI, ZA, OPA or POI. Backdrops were created using the (Save Image as ...) option when right-clicking on the Stage, at the end of each Game I'd just played. Tile highlighting & masking Sprite costumes (modified) & most Sounds, all from @pos1999's amazing Scrabble project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/531246040/ The Code by me, highlights each play in each game. I may have remembered the order of the plays slightly incorrectly, but the actual plays and who made them are correct. GAME 1: This game is 2nd on the Hard Level Leaderboard! I got lucky drawing all 4 S's, both Blanks & 3 of the big 4: Q, J & X, but you make your own luck. I played longer words than the AI using considerably more Tiles (57) compared to the AI (41), so if I'm drawing more tiles I'm going to draw more than my fair share of the good ones. However that being said, I did have some unbelievably good luck, late in the game. I didn't know that ZEDA was a word, but the AI played it, so it must be, so I had a lucky guess that it was a noun taking an S, so I played LEASH, for a nice score. BUT the most lucky thing about that play, was that it actually made it possible to get CRAVING on the board. It wasn't possible to place it anywhere else & I nearly ran out of time (each turn was timed when I played it) trying to find a spot for it. That play was worth 101 points. GAME 2: This Pro game told a similar story where I used 52 tiles & the AI only used 44 (although it did get stuck with 4 at the end of the game when I went out). GAME 3: After AI played ENGS, I had PIANIST but couldn't get it on so I passed. Still couldn't, so I burnt a few minutes trying to find an 8 & luckily found MISPAINT. After I played QUIN, I had a Blank & an S but couldn't find a Bingo, so I exchanged a couple of problem tiles & drew well to have a few options & I got SPEARED on for 101 points. My margin was only 8 points shy of my then best at Pro level, but it really was my best, as the AI had bugs then. GAME 4: This game is 2nd on the Pro Level Leaderboard (making it my new best winning margin at that Level). GAME 5: Contains what I think is my best ever play in a game of Scrabble, 109 points for the 5-letter word QUEAN & it's the only time I've scored over 500 points in a game. FYI: I was runner-up in the inaugural Australian Scrabble Championships in 1981.
