Timeline for What are the odds in Scrabble of not being able to make a legal move on opening turn
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| Aug 12, 2020 at 12:27 | comment | added | Stef | I love the simplicity of this approximation. Would be even better if it could also give an upper and lower bound on the true probability by estimating by how much it is off. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 21:42 | comment | added | Comic Sans Seraphim | @borrible Fair point, and I was a bit off. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | borrible | I like the approximation approach but your problem is that your false positives and false negatives are highly unbalanced. In particular, there are a huge number of all consonant combinations that include valid words. The top problematic short valid words being HS, HNT, CH and HM. | |
| Aug 10, 2020 at 13:40 | history | answered | Comic Sans Seraphim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |