@@alexanderbateman5581That’s not how crosswords work. They work more like regular Scrabble, with words going in rows and columns without immediate parallelling, where shapes like those that are the subject of this video would never appear.
@@alexanderbateman5581Yes, I do them every weekend. Newspaper crosswords never do long overlaps like this. It’s very rare for a word to even have *two* consecutive letters shared with others, let alone any more than that!
I think the second overlap is more obvious than the first simply because now the idea has already been brought to attention. Before that, it was just a normal game with no crazy overlaps, but once you get a 7/7, you might pay more attention to that group. "Haha, wouldn't it be funny if I drew tiles to make a third ov... wait a second!!!"
Wait until it becomes used enough as a phrase that it becomes a word with a definition something like "A word in scrabble that has been misspelled but not noticed by the opponent until too late" and thus becomes a valid word
Hey, former European Scrabble champion here! just wanted to say love your content. It's fantastic to see you bringing Scrabble to the forefront of social media, much like chess has been. Keep up the great work!
literally watching this with my jaw on the floor. Thank you for reporting on this and your wonderful commentary, you are absolutely an essential core part of the scrabble community
3:52 I was literally googling in another tab to try and find out the maximum possibly number of 7 tile bingo overlaps in scrabble.. I'm glad you predicted that question haha
That's absolutely outstanding wow. 3 way overlaps are hard to even construct, having it come up organically in a real game truly feels like a once-in-many-decades event. Amazing, thanks for putting this game on my radar Will
@@xwddydfy_3 8x8 is possible: LATERALS AXONEMAL TOEPLATE ENPLANED RELANDED AMANDINE LATEENER SLEDDERS 9x9 probably doesn't exist, but that afaik hasn't been proven. Other languages with bigger lexicons have 9x9 or 10x10 though.
I love how much passion and work you put into your videos. It’s really evident especially in a video like this. I know the meta is to have a Clickbait title… But I will say this one video really lived up to the Clickbait.
Thank you! I try not to overdo it with the clickbait. One thing I really can't stomach is doing the "RUclips face." Anytime I include it in a video I'm doing it ironically.... :O
To anyone curious I also wrote an algorythm to try and find the most bingos you could stack on top of each other (I'm gonna be honest I just didn't trust Will (sorry Will if you read this, it's not you, it's me...)) and got to the same 2 ONLY ways you could possibly stack 5 bingos. There are 25 331 7-letter words in the english language; There are 89 457 ways you could stack 2 bingos on top of each other; There are 974 932 ways you could stack 3 bingos on top of each other (my computer won't forget this); There are 23 707 ways you could stack 4 bingos on top of each other (at this point I thought no way there's only 2 5stacks of bingos, turns out I was wrong); And there are only 2 ways you could stack 5 bingos on top of each other.
Coming back here after hitting a six-tile overlap for I think the first time ever. My opponent started off the game with MEANER, and I was holding ADDENOU, giving me the opportunity to play DUODENA overlapping UM, OE, DA, EN, NE and AR.
Great video as always, Will. Do Scrabble tournaments ever give brilliancy prizes for spectacular individual games, as some chess tournaments do? This game seems like it definitely would merit one if they do!
Yeah many tournaments give prizes for “highest scoring play” of the tournament, which is pretty close to what you’re asking. In this case though, if this was a major tournament then 112 probably isn’t going to win the highest scoring play prize, as it just takes one person triple tripling to pass that.
There are lots of prizes of this type, but I'm not sure there's a general brilliancy prize - typically it's either high scores as John described, or "best ____ word" depending on the holiday, season, etc. There probably should be brilliancy prizes!
Were you searching only consecutive bingo overlaps from top to bottom, or were you allowing plays above as well? That might make a difference if the words going across are only valid when truncated one way rather than another.
For example in the top left 3x3 square at the end: PAT AMA CUR could be played by playing AMU and aligning TAR, and adding PAC, because AT, MA and UR are valid. But you can't play AMU and then PAC because CU is not valid. So the order matters
@@Jkfgjfgjfkjgit wouldn't, because order matters in terms of forming valid words, but it seems this has already been taken into account so it is indeed exhaustive
@@Jkfgjfgjfkjg you still don't understand. The sequence matters. Imagine 3 words, let's call them A, B, C. They can form a triple overlap ABC, but BC forms a valid double overlap and AB doesn't. You can't start this string with A or you won't be able to play ABC-- you have to either start by playing B or C first and playing A only after you have already formed BC. If you search only top to bottom, you won't find ABC because AB isn't a valid overlap.
Impressive bit of software. I was thinking a bit further last night … envisioning other permutations like “A lays down a bingo, then B lays another one underneath (or overtop) but with a blank row/column in between, then (Shazam!) somebody fills a bingo in between creating 7 short words. Boggles!!
Amazing video! One thing i want to ask: do your calculations at 5:09 take into account that certain letters are gone from the bag, being played on board already? e.g. AMARONE is somewhat less likely to be drawn, as PATAMAR already uses AAMR. of course, i don't expect this to significantly impact the overall probability (and it can cancel out in parts, like CURETTE possibly being _more_ likely to be drawn, with "only" ERTT being gone, vs 10 other "useless" tiles)
As a bystander the Collins dictionary just seems more enjoyable for allowing more words to be played, and playing words is the fun part of scrabble. Will you're kinda the Wayne Gretzky of poker
I do understand people who are put off by the archaic nature of some of those words, but once you embrace the "letter strings over actual words" mindset, the sky's the limit
Now I'm wondering what the biggest fully filled rectangle of scrabble tiles is that could be made with valid plays. None of them have to be bingos though.
that's it. i've been following for a while, but it took being a bit tipsy for me to scream LOUDLY, and TWICE, watching one of your videos. What a game, and what a way to cover it man !!
Hey Will, what is the shortest a game can end in a stalemate (no legal moves by either player irrespective of how many times the tiles are recycled)? What is the fastest time a game has reached this state in tournament play?
Not in tournaments and not quite a stalemate, but consider VAV in the middle and v(A)v reply, the initial player holding KKSSSSA will win by passing. Check a Mack Meller short.
The fastest board that reaches a semi-locked state is XU/UH in a 2x2 square. The board can still be opened with DUH or HUH, but if you don't have a hook to UH or a play like TA(XU)S which would probably not be a good play, you're locked.
The single 5x7 stack that you found can be made by first playing PATAMAR and then the other words below it or by starting with AMARONE, then placing PATAMAR on top, and then the other words below.
is there any other stack that doesn't require it to be in sequential order? for example you have to do row 1+2 then row 4+5 then row 3 last so in this example you needed valid 2 letter words and 5 letter word rather than 2,3,4,5? also other combinations can remove the requirement of 3/4 letter words at the cost of needed more valid 2/3 letter words. Maybe then a 6 stack might be possible (probably not still)
If they aren't done in order, maybe you could stack more bingos. Like, maybe there are some possibilities that were ruled out because they wouldn't have been valid as two bingos, but maybe they'd be possible if you did the first and third row before filling the second row in. Maybe there's a way to get 6 or more like that
Is there a longer sequence of 7 letter bingos that can be done by using overplays rather than underplays? What about a combination of using both overplays and underplays?
Question for you, Will. I loved the theoretical 7x5 stacks and how they were formed, but is there an algorithm that looks at stacking either on the top or bottom on each consecutive bingo? Because your examples look like they're just a series of stacks underneath each previous one, which is cool, but technically they could be placed above.
Yes, the algorithm for this one did look and both top and bottom as possibilities. If you look at the example at 5:45, that stack was formed with words filling in both on top and on the bottom of the existing stack.
I paused the video at 1:30 since I was pretty sure I knew where this was going and tried to figure out what word would fit there, which was fun although I couldn't find one (figured there had to be an S in there somewhere!)
What's the largest area solid rectangular block possible from the beginning of the game if not every word is required to completely overlap as it's played? Same question but bingos aren't required?
Is there a way to stack 5 bingos other than downwards only? You could obviously to the second one first, then the second, then 3,4,5. But are there any other ways?
Awesome video. What is the maximum number of consecutive bingos that could be played to start a game? Is it theoretically possible that every play could be a bingo in a game?
If you ever find yourself with "amarone" going first in a tournament game, do not despair! You don't need to pass your turn, you can just play it in the hopes that your opponent has patamar to play above you. The order of the first two words is irrelevant! :)
did you check for 6 or more parallel 7-letter words stacked with the collins dictionary? (since you said there were 800 combinations for 5 parallel words)
It's not a complete lock, but the closest thing Scrabble has to "opening theory" like chess is the XU/UH opening square. The board isn't totally dead thanks to DUH and HUH but unless you have a hook to UH it's pretty well trapped.
The necessity of only one dictionary is a requirement at this point. Just to make the odds of this happening that much better. ;) How do pros that go back and forth between regions make sure to keep the dictionaries separate in their mind? English is English. Should be the same. I have a house rule that any valid word counts. (Our vocabulary is not extensive as pros, so we hope to recognize on our jumbled rack of letters, to use any word we happen to know.)
Question is , is the board locked at that point? I think there is 1 s remaining so I guess not! But have you ever seen a game where no play is possible? For both players?
This ryan guy is alright, absolutely destroyed him at scrabble online when I was bored at work , he managed to take a few games off me though so props to him.
I do not believe that's ever happened - triples have a tendency to get used up long before plays of that nature can ever happen, but I couldn't say for absolute sure that it's never occurred...
if you ever got that 1 in octillion five bingo overlap it'd be inda hard to continue the game after? I guess you'd hvve to make room with patamars, but not much room to play with?
lol @ how in like in *_ALMOST_** EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.* of these videos, there's always some obscure short word that references... *WEED.* :D And, of course, in 99% of cases it's almost certainly *COMPLETELY MADE UP* by the compiler of the dictionary... :P .
Couldn’t it be 2 in 57 octillion? You could start with reseeds and go upwards, plus some tile sets people will always want to exchange on their first turn so it might be as common as 3 or 4 in 57 octillion. That said I won’t be holding my breath.
No. because the short words wouldn't work in reverse. PA to PAC to PACE to PACER all work for instance. But in reverse, it would be ER to CER* and ACER* which are not words.
@@JasonVaysberg Still, AMARONE could be played first (in row 8 of course) and then PATAMAR (in row 7). So there is indeed a factor of 2 here. I'm also not sure if Will factored the blanks into his calculations? Also, perhaps there are some sequences of overlapping bingos that can be built from the bottom up, or the inside out?
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Orla Judge playing "gutted" and "gulp" feels like foreshadowing for that insane play of doing another 7 letter, 7 overlap bingo.
I said GUTTED felt very appropriate 😂😂😂
OMG, I didn't even notice this. Well spotted
the first time that a scrabble board ACTUALLY looks like a crossword puzzle lmfao
No, they always look like crossword puzzles.
@@DrWhoFanJ I mean like one you would find in a newspaper that has big blocks of words like this.
@@alexanderbateman5581That’s not how crosswords work. They work more like regular Scrabble, with words going in rows and columns without immediate parallelling, where shapes like those that are the subject of this video would never appear.
@@DrWhoFanJ ...have you ever looked at a newspaper crossword? Like the New York Times or something? They literally all look like this.
@@alexanderbateman5581Yes, I do them every weekend. Newspaper crosswords never do long overlaps like this. It’s very rare for a word to even have *two* consecutive letters shared with others, let alone any more than that!
I think the second overlap is more obvious than the first simply because now the idea has already been brought to attention. Before that, it was just a normal game with no crazy overlaps, but once you get a 7/7, you might pay more attention to that group. "Haha, wouldn't it be funny if I drew tiles to make a third ov... wait a second!!!"
Hadn't thought of that, but it's definitely true
HIARNETS will soon become an inside joke in the Scrabble community, I'm calling it
it already has been for like 15 years lol
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Wait until it becomes used enough as a phrase that it becomes a word with a definition something like "A word in scrabble that has been misspelled but not noticed by the opponent until too late" and thus becomes a valid word
@@Ganpan14O If this happened, it would be in good company with words like “mondegreen” and “eggcorn”!
The Parker Hairnets
About to play 57 octillion scrabble games guys, I’ll keep you updated
You might get lucky and get there after only 56 octillion
update?
@@prestonhunter6012currently 2 games in
Where update?
Waiting for the update
The AnGeRED under NEURITE is already impressive, but my goodness here he briefly turned Scrabble into a crossword puzzle, absolutely insane of a play
I bursted out laughter when I saw (H)IARNETS, but the ED didn't fit onto my board
Grammatically yeah. But Scrabble-wise? Bursted is good.
@@nightwishlover8913 that's the point of the joke
ChatGPT would have been able to play it outside of the board.
old: Scrabble is a game where you make a crossword puzzle
bold: Scrabble is a game where you fill a spreadsheet
With ‘hiarnets’ Nigel has become like the Goat Guy from my hometown.
Others were playing scrabble but Ryan was playing Tetris
7x5 stack = Scrabble Rebirth
Will knows block that's my goat
@@wanderer15 NES Scrabble when? :P
@@wanderer15 rebirth mention
Hey, former European Scrabble champion here! just wanted to say love your content. It's fantastic to see you bringing Scrabble to the forefront of social media, much like chess has been. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Reuben, I appreciate it!
Those visual aides for the 5-bingo sequence were hilarious!
literally watching this with my jaw on the floor. Thank you for reporting on this and your wonderful commentary, you are absolutely an essential core part of the scrabble community
The hiarnets callback was beautiful
(0:39) LOL, that "HIARNETS" reference gave me a good laugh!
3:52 I was literally googling in another tab to try and find out the maximum possibly number of 7 tile bingo overlaps in scrabble.. I'm glad you predicted that question haha
That's absolutely outstanding wow. 3 way overlaps are hard to even construct, having it come up organically in a real game truly feels like a once-in-many-decades event. Amazing, thanks for putting this game on my radar Will
I'm so so excited to see Ryan on your channel! He's such a lovely, eccentric guy. Thanks for reviewing the game!
To be fair, if I had played a 7-letter overlap, the first thing I'd look after would be another one.
Some day, when enough words are added to the lexicon, we'll be able to have the fabled bingo square.
Brilliant idea for giving us the theoretical 5x7 stacks of words! Kudos to Ryan Wee for this 3x7 blocks amazing feat!
astonishing. thank you for your continued amazing coverage of Scrabble!
The most beautiful would be a 7x7 tile with all overlapping bingos, but I'll take a 3x7 too, real slick stuff, impressive and beautifully spotted.
There are valid 7x7 squares even, they just can't be created from successive parallel bingos
@@AlexDingswhats the max n x n square that can be made in scrabble? also i wanna see the 7 x 7 square because it seems fascinating
@@AlexDingswill using CSW make it easier?
@@xwddydfy_3 8x8 is possible:
LATERALS
AXONEMAL
TOEPLATE
ENPLANED
RELANDED
AMANDINE
LATEENER
SLEDDERS
9x9 probably doesn't exist, but that afaik hasn't been proven. Other languages with bigger lexicons have 9x9 or 10x10 though.
@@galoomba5559 for completeness sake can you please show the order of building it?
not every day i audibly shout over scrabble but holy shit
FOR REAL!
Spaz bro...
The MIT Mystery Hunt writers for next year are going to have a field day with this one
I love how much passion and work you put into your videos. It’s really evident especially in a video like this. I know the meta is to have a Clickbait title… But I will say this one video really lived up to the Clickbait.
Thank you! I try not to overdo it with the clickbait. One thing I really can't stomach is doing the "RUclips face." Anytime I include it in a video I'm doing it ironically.... :O
To anyone curious I also wrote an algorythm to try and find the most bingos you could stack on top of each other (I'm gonna be honest I just didn't trust Will (sorry Will if you read this, it's not you, it's me...)) and got to the same 2 ONLY ways you could possibly stack 5 bingos.
There are 25 331 7-letter words in the english language;
There are 89 457 ways you could stack 2 bingos on top of each other;
There are 974 932 ways you could stack 3 bingos on top of each other (my computer won't forget this);
There are 23 707 ways you could stack 4 bingos on top of each other (at this point I thought no way there's only 2 5stacks of bingos, turns out I was wrong);
And there are only 2 ways you could stack 5 bingos on top of each other.
This game was so crazy that it was featured in yesterdays Times scrabble puzzle
and here i am with my best play being "jingo" from the last letters of ahi, yen, and eng
Coming back here after hitting a six-tile overlap for I think the first time ever. My opponent started off the game with MEANER, and I was holding ADDENOU, giving me the opportunity to play DUODENA overlapping UM, OE, DA, EN, NE and AR.
Great video as always, Will. Do Scrabble tournaments ever give brilliancy prizes for spectacular individual games, as some chess tournaments do? This game seems like it definitely would merit one if they do!
Yeah many tournaments give prizes for “highest scoring play” of the tournament, which is pretty close to what you’re asking. In this case though, if this was a major tournament then 112 probably isn’t going to win the highest scoring play prize, as it just takes one person triple tripling to pass that.
There are lots of prizes of this type, but I'm not sure there's a general brilliancy prize - typically it's either high scores as John described, or "best ____ word" depending on the holiday, season, etc. There probably should be brilliancy prizes!
Were you searching only consecutive bingo overlaps from top to bottom, or were you allowing plays above as well? That might make a difference if the words going across are only valid when truncated one way rather than another.
For example in the top left 3x3 square at the end:
PAT
AMA
CUR
could be played by playing AMU and aligning TAR, and adding PAC, because AT, MA and UR are valid. But you can't play AMU and then PAC because CU is not valid. So the order matters
He was looking at plays above. One of the animations towards the end with the more lenient dictionary showed bingos filling in the top then bottom
@@Jkfgjfgjfkjg My example disproves your statement
@@Jkfgjfgjfkjgit wouldn't, because order matters in terms of forming valid words, but it seems this has already been taken into account so it is indeed exhaustive
@@Jkfgjfgjfkjg you still don't understand. The sequence matters. Imagine 3 words, let's call them A, B, C. They can form a triple overlap ABC, but BC forms a valid double overlap and AB doesn't. You can't start this string with A or you won't be able to play ABC-- you have to either start by playing B or C first and playing A only after you have already formed BC.
If you search only top to bottom, you won't find ABC because AB isn't a valid overlap.
that is absolutely crazy
Impressive bit of software. I was thinking a bit further last night … envisioning other permutations like “A lays down a bingo, then B lays another one underneath (or overtop) but with a blank row/column in between, then (Shazam!) somebody fills a bingo in between creating 7 short words. Boggles!!
1) This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
2) Good lord, CSW has the dumbest non-words. 😂
I have a video coming next week which is going to blow your mind re: #2
Amazing video! One thing i want to ask: do your calculations at 5:09 take into account that certain letters are gone from the bag, being played on board already? e.g. AMARONE is somewhat less likely to be drawn, as PATAMAR already uses AAMR. of course, i don't expect this to significantly impact the overall probability (and it can cancel out in parts, like CURETTE possibly being _more_ likely to be drawn, with "only" ERTT being gone, vs 10 other "useless" tiles)
They do, the denominator for my calculations was 100 choose 7 for PATAMAR, 93 choose 7 for AMARONE, etc.
As a bystander the Collins dictionary just seems more enjoyable for allowing more words to be played, and playing words is the fun part of scrabble. Will you're kinda the Wayne Gretzky of poker
I do understand people who are put off by the archaic nature of some of those words, but once you embrace the "letter strings over actual words" mindset, the sky's the limit
Amazing video. Keep them coming!
Wonder if you could have overlaps that formed words diagonally too...
I thought 'this reminds me so much of the word squares created by Bob Lucassen', until I saw that the ones in the video are also created by him!
lmao ja how does he do it
His code to generate these is shockingly simple/elegant!
delightful stuff
I can stack 5 letter words but never stacked 7 letter bingos before.
Now I'm wondering what the biggest fully filled rectangle of scrabble tiles is that could be made with valid plays. None of them have to be bingos though.
These are fun to watch.
the hiarnets joke got me lol
that's it. i've been following for a while, but it took being a bit tipsy for me to scream LOUDLY, and TWICE, watching one of your videos. What a game, and what a way to cover it man !!
Hey Will, what is the shortest a game can end in a stalemate (no legal moves by either player irrespective of how many times the tiles are recycled)?
What is the fastest time a game has reached this state in tournament play?
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Not in tournaments and not quite a stalemate, but consider VAV in the middle and v(A)v reply, the initial player holding KKSSSSA will win by passing. Check a Mack Meller short.
The fastest board that reaches a semi-locked state is XU/UH in a 2x2 square. The board can still be opened with DUH or HUH, but if you don't have a hook to UH or a play like TA(XU)S which would probably not be a good play, you're locked.
The single 5x7 stack that you found can be made by first playing PATAMAR and then the other words below it or by starting with AMARONE, then placing PATAMAR on top, and then the other words below.
is there any other stack that doesn't require it to be in sequential order? for example you have to do row 1+2 then row 4+5 then row 3 last so in this example you needed valid 2 letter words and 5 letter word rather than 2,3,4,5?
also other combinations can remove the requirement of 3/4 letter words at the cost of needed more valid 2/3 letter words. Maybe then a 6 stack might be possible (probably not still)
There probably would be many more stacks like this - the numbers in this video are all sequential stacks.
If they aren't done in order, maybe you could stack more bingos. Like, maybe there are some possibilities that were ruled out because they wouldn't have been valid as two bingos, but maybe they'd be possible if you did the first and third row before filling the second row in. Maybe there's a way to get 6 or more like that
Is there a longer sequence of 7 letter bingos that can be done by using overplays rather than underplays? What about a combination of using both overplays and underplays?
The search for 7x5 stacks was done searching for both over- and under-plays.
The fact that the word was "Amended", nominative determinism.
Question for you, Will. I loved the theoretical 7x5 stacks and how they were formed, but is there an algorithm that looks at stacking either on the top or bottom on each consecutive bingo? Because your examples look like they're just a series of stacks underneath each previous one, which is cool, but technically they could be placed above.
Yes, the algorithm for this one did look and both top and bottom as possibilities. If you look at the example at 5:45, that stack was formed with words filling in both on top and on the bottom of the existing stack.
I paused the video at 1:30 since I was pretty sure I knew where this was going and tried to figure out what word would fit there, which was fun although I couldn't find one (figured there had to be an S in there somewhere!)
A huge portion of the big 7x5 blocks have not only all 4 Ss, but also both blanks designated as S too!
What's the largest area solid rectangular block possible from the beginning of the game if not every word is required to completely overlap as it's played? Same question but bingos aren't required?
I believe there are some examples of 8x8 blocks!
Is there a way to stack 5 bingos other than downwards only? You could obviously to the second one first, then the second, then 3,4,5. But are there any other ways?
Many of the 800+ Collins dictionary examples are done with a combination of stacking on top and below!
ryan thought he joined a crossword tournament 🗣️
Wow, that is amazing! 😀👍🏼
Awesome video. What is the maximum number of consecutive bingos that could be played to start a game? Is it theoretically possible that every play could be a bingo in a game?
Fantastic Video. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Is that the largest completely filled rectangle in tournament scrabble ever? Or has there been a 4x6 or 5x5 overlap play at some point, for example?
Good question...and it might be possible to figure this out. I'll try to get that answer.
What bingos other than amended could he have played there? Some analysis of the probability of the actual play would be interesting.
I’ve always gotten 6 overlaps.. still looking for one ^^
my dumbass thought he was gonna pull out a triangle or smth 😭😭😭
@wanderer15 You may already know, but both Orla and Ryan are keen ZDS Scrabble players
Lol I'm gonna need definitions for all those obscure wordds resulting from those overlaps, because I've never heard of some of those words before.
Crossword looking Scrabble board
That’s a story he’ll be telling his grandchildren who will unfortunately never recognize how brilliant this is.
I dunno, Scrabble runs in families...
@will - how on earth do you unearth all those possible overlaps??
That was an assist from a coding savvy volunteer, Bob Lucassen!
If you ever find yourself with "amarone" going first in a tournament game, do not despair! You don't need to pass your turn, you can just play it in the hopes that your opponent has patamar to play above you. The order of the first two words is irrelevant! :)
'oo', 'er', 'li' , 'ee', 'oon', 'ane' aren't words, no matter what any dictionary says.
Ikr….. I don’t understand lmao
If you google scrabble dictionary, you can see that those are valid words. Except 'er' because that's just 're' backwards
did you check for 6 or more parallel 7-letter words stacked with the collins dictionary? (since you said there were 800 combinations for 5 parallel words)
If there was he probably would have let us know.
Yes, 5 is the maximum!
Is there any set of stacked words that complete lock the game if they are the only plays?
It's not a complete lock, but the closest thing Scrabble has to "opening theory" like chess is the XU/UH opening square. The board isn't totally dead thanks to DUH and HUH but unless you have a hook to UH it's pretty well trapped.
playing 2 7 letter overlap bingos is insane
crazy but impressive.
Are large overlaps that rare? I've had 5 on a bingo before, and I don't often play people who put their own bingoes on the board.
Is it still 5 if you allow overlaps as well as underlaps?
I remember a rated game with several consec bingos in the Aus Champs. But not sharing it in comments.
Video idea: Scrabble players DnD alignment chart.
It is amazing what can be done with make believe words.
The necessity of only one dictionary is a requirement at this point. Just to make the odds of this happening that much better. ;)
How do pros that go back and forth between regions make sure to keep the dictionaries separate in their mind? English is English. Should be the same. I have a house rule that any valid word counts. (Our vocabulary is not extensive as pros, so we hope to recognize on our jumbled rack of letters, to use any word we happen to know.)
Question is , is the board locked at that point? I think there is 1 s remaining so I guess not! But have you ever seen a game where no play is possible? For both players?
It happens, usually near the end of the game. Something like one player is stuck with the Q and the other with a V.
Do you happen to have a discord or other contact for game sharing, since you mentioned it
Sure, I should be reachable on discord at "gmwanderer".
This ryan guy is alright, absolutely destroyed him at scrabble online when I was bored at work , he managed to take a few games off me though so props to him.
0:38 u got my ass lol
weird, i was playing around with stacking bingos last night.
Incredible 🎉🎉
Has anyone ever played a 3x3x3, bingo or not, outside of deliberate setups like oxyphenbutazone?
I do not believe that's ever happened - triples have a tendency to get used up long before plays of that nature can ever happen, but I couldn't say for absolute sure that it's never occurred...
sick
🧩That AMENDED play could be a sign of a future CRUCIVERBALIST!🧩
They are playing the game where the box moves left to right abd you try to drop it on the other boxes.😂
Any annotation of the Game?
www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=48951#0#
if you ever got that 1 in octillion five bingo overlap it'd be inda hard to continue the game after? I guess you'd hvve to make room with patamars, but not much room to play with?
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5:45 -- wait, what's *"PELA/S"* ??
don't find this anywhere...
That word is only valid in the international Collins word list. (Yes, it's crazy that there are two standard English lists in widespread use)
@@wanderer15 so what does it MEAN ???
You're making some of these words up - or somebody is!
Nigeria getting a shout out
I wonder if 6 overlaps exist.
lol @ how in like in *_ALMOST_** EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.* of these videos, there's always some obscure short word that references... *WEED.* :D
And, of course, in 99% of cases it's almost certainly *COMPLETELY MADE UP* by the compiler of the dictionary... :P
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Couldn’t it be 2 in 57 octillion? You could start with reseeds and go upwards, plus some tile sets people will always want to exchange on their first turn so it might be as common as 3 or 4 in 57 octillion.
That said I won’t be holding my breath.
No. because the short words wouldn't work in reverse. PA to PAC to PACE to PACER all work for instance. But in reverse, it would be ER to CER* and ACER* which are not words.
@@JasonVaysberg Still, AMARONE could be played first (in row 8 of course) and then PATAMAR (in row 7). So there is indeed a factor of 2 here. I'm also not sure if Will factored the blanks into his calculations? Also, perhaps there are some sequences of overlapping bingos that can be built from the bottom up, or the inside out?
@@JasonVaysberg ah your right i didnt think about that. still think its 2 or 3 in 57 octillion due to the exchange idea tho