So the title may be a reaction when someone read the recent addition of words such as COQUI into the new Official Scrabble Word List from Collins, the Collins Scrabble Words (CSW2015). Indeed, there are many un-English-looking words that one is…
I recently came across a chart showing where letters are used in an English word. Here, the author took a corpus of English works and used it to count in which position a letter most often occurs. This inspires me…
After my simulation of 1000 tourneys of 45-rounds pure King-of-the-Hill match between 50 of the world’s top 100 Scrabble players, Adam Kretschmer asked if having 100 players in a pure KotH tournament will reduce the likelihood of excessive repeats between…
In my previous post I ran a simulation of 1000 tournaments with 45 games of King of the Hills with repeats among 50 of the world’s top 100 Scrabble players, to see how many repeats potentially may happen at worst with that…
Michael Tang today announced his intention to bring back the Grand Causeway Challenge during the 1st week of December 2016. This will be an individual tournament, as opposed to the traditional Causeway Scrabble Challenge which is a team tournament, revived…
Singapore Open 2014 is ongoing now and tomorrow. Updates will be posted below after every round, 8 rounds each day. Hover over the charts / values for additional info. Learn About Tableau
Quick and dirty: something I like to use to interactively compare performance of players. At the moment only until round 17, will add more later. The current default compares Malaysia vs Singapore, but you can change the filters yourself. Edit:…
During Causeway Scrabble Challenge 2014, information on the power tiles and the bingos were collected with the help of all the participants (statistics on the power tiles and the bingos can be found in my earlier post). A total of 712…
Causeway Scrabble Challenge (CSC) 2014 has concluded with team Singapore beating team Malaysia 102.5 vs 97.5 . The individual results shows an expectedly-dominant Nigel Richards way ahead of other players, but yet not enough to power the Malaysia team to…
After a hiatus following a successful 10 year-run, The Causeway Scrabble Challenge (CSC) is making a comeback this year on Saturday-Sunday 5-6 July 2014 in Singapore. At its peak, CSC was the most prestigious Scrabble tournament in the world, with…