Re: Final call for Scrambled Words

[Cameron Browne <browne@research.canon.com.au>]

Hi Chris,

That's a very valid point.

Part of the difficulty in this competition is finding a game with usable 
words (they exist but are limited). Your suggestion would open the doors 
for many more entries, so please go ahead.

All entries will be considered but good entries satisfying more stringent 
constraints will be regardly more highly. In other words, a story with 
two-and-three-letter words removed would have to be *really* good to beat a 
story using all words.

Cameron

At 06:31 PM 6/25/2002 +0000, dissemblers address wrote:
>It's probably too late to suggest a rule change/enhancement at this point 
>to this competition, but in looking at some of the Scramble games I 
>noticed that they all appear to contain those words that seem to exist 
>only for the sake of Scrabble players, those two-letter combinations that 
>never occur in a real conversation.  Given this, I wonder if you might not 
>be better off restricting yourselves to those words four letters and 
>longer, as suggested for all word games in the wonderful book of word 
>games Botticelli and Beyond (containing mostly children's games, but a 
>good 10-12 of very complex abstract strategy games using words, including 
>Sid Sackson's Last Word, for instance).