Sunday, May 27, 2007

Boggle and YAWL

I've been using the TWL06 (Scrabble) list. This is fine, but it only includes words up to 15 letters in length. For Boggle this is a minor problem, as it's possible to have 16-, or even 17-letter words if you use the "Qu". So I've switched over to the YAWL word list and started a new billion-board run using the 1992 4x4 Boggle cube set. This is perhaps a bit of second-hard paranoia, as my first billion-board run only found a single board with a 15-letter word - "intergradations".

After 500 million boards, the densest board was:

nslo
eiae
drts
eash

This includes 862 YAWL words.

The board with the highest standard (2311), house (2664) and Fibonacci (3784) scores:

dsti
laee
minr
dest

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