Better Know a Letter - Z
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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In the first installment of Better Know a Letter, Will breaks down one of the highest-scoring tiles in the game of Scrabble - the Z. How many stars out of 5 do you think the Z will get from Will?
My best "Z" score was 212 with "braziers" landing me on two TW and the "I" on a double tile points for a bingo. Ironically, it was within my first 10 times playing on the Scrabble app 3 years ago. I haven't beaten that yet, but I did get 167 score a few games later.
Amazing play!
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Hello, Will. I've played Scrabble for a while, and am starting to get better at it. I liked this video a lot. One thing I do want to ask is how the Z's value changes between dictionaries. For example, I know that Collins has ZA, ZE, and ZO as two letter words, making scoring so much more opportune than in the Naspa dictionary. Would you rate the Z a highers score if not in Naspa?
Great question! Yes, the Z is already extremely strong in the NWL dictionary, but gains even more power in the Collins dictionary for the reasons you described.
Likewise to the J, and the J is a better example to illustrate the Collins - NWL gap! The J in Collins is even not an adverse letter!
i like how he put a trigger warning before doing math
amazing infoz :D
cant wait to see the "S" cuz asking myself: is the "S" is the only 5 star letter?
even if i a german-dictionary newbie-patzer, i like to enjoy ur contend and try to transpose ur infos to the german-lang. typical german schachtelsatz ;)
Indeed S is an S-tier!
Finally got around to downloading Scrabble Go today and got my first 50+ pointer with Jazzer, so I like the Z for now
Nice job man!
@@wanderer15 thanks!
I remember someone playing “boo” on the top of the board. I fished twice and ended up playing bamboozled on there… triple triple, Z on the triple letter (words with friends)… the points were enormous - almost 400 points.
I will start calling pizza za in honor of the word
No one calls pizza a za. za (slang) means marijuana. Most people call it that
Thanks for this awesome video. It’s great having more scrabble tutorials.
More to come!
Great video Will. I'll vote for H.
Great Video - my favorite letter - the P
3:54
N: Am I a joke to you?
But fr, why wasn't N mentioned? It has a higher percentage than Y
You'll for sure see a *lot* of ZEN, ZIN, ZEIN/ZINE, ZONE, ZOON, AZON, etc. when you learn these words! I surely could have mentioned that. It's mostly that there are six N's in Scrabble and only two Y's, making the Y's high percentage quite surprising given its 4-point value (typically higher point value letters appear much less often in words).
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I mean I know a lot of zy words like cozy,fuzzy,crazy,fizzy,analyze,catalyze,frazy,zygote,glizzy,glitzy,zazzy,enzyme,hizzy,kizzy,tizzy,shizzy,doozy,dizzy,lazy,jazzy,ritzy,ditzy,woozy,gauzy,zymic,frenzy,gleezy,frizzy,blowzy,snazzy,sleazy,whizzy,breezy,frouzy,boozy,fozy,hazy,dozy,oozy,zyme,izzy,gazy,yeezy,jizzy,buzzy,zizzy,steezy,wheezy,hydrolyzed,hydroxyzine,zesty,grizzly,zephyr, etc..
The ultimate range balancer!
I want s cuz its popular bingo
3:04 But how do I get that version then??
Play games not using the NWL list. Aka outside of North America.
Do T next!
Omg I know I've done it so many times on Scrabble go...because I am th Scrabble Queen!!
Mommy once earned so many BINGO wins that they complained.
Reminds me that someone's alphabet countdown went viral.
My favourite letter to get in Scrabble is the Z
Assuming "more often" means "more frequently" in the graph at 4:10 (consonants appearing with Z) - this is gathered by running over the lexicon once? Is it weighted by playability, as in a simulation? In the vowels graph (preceding) - for short words intuitively ZA could be weighted higher than OUZO but I don't know how that is shown in the graph if at all. Playability is very interesting to investigate and I wonder about the possibly over-randomized set of positions used to determine playability (it might be dangerous to under-randomize them but cross-tables might be an excellent source of sample games) (usually playability is found by doing speedy player quackle sims, as far as i understand it, but it's missing from zyzzyva now & that question has always been a mystery to me)
Yeah, I started doing these graphics using 3-5 letter words only and leaving out the two letter words (dealing with them separately) for this reason. Typically a lot of stats are generated by having Quackle play itself thousands of times.
I think we should do letter R next ok?
Abbreviations can now be used in scrabble? Za? I thought it was dictionary words only. Are we gonna play proper nouns and slang now too?
scrabble has its own dictionaries and has for a long time.
As I said on Twitter.
4:42 this is saying 0% even though the word "quiz" exists
Quiz and squiz are the only 2 4-5 letter words. A lot of longer words involve multiple z
It's saying it's under 1%, doesn't mean it's 0%.
I absolutely love your videos, but I find it weird and somewhat disturbing that you have to “warn“ viewers that there’s about to be a bunch of graphs. It’s not like you’re doing calculus, or complex analysis. They are just graphs. As mathematical as Scrabble is, I think it’s insulting to imply that these graphs are in any way difficult to comprehend for a decent Scrabble player.
It was a joke. Warnings like that are used for things that could be traumatic, so this was just a play on how some people feel helpless with math. He isn't condescending in the math part either, which reinforces that it was a joke