quackle
Quackle crossword game artificial intelligence and analysis tool (by quackle)
macondo
A crossword board game AI, written in Go (by domino14)
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| quackle | macondo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | |
| 155 | 46 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 6.8 | 9.2 | |
| 9 months ago | 24 days ago | |
| C++ | Jupyter Notebook | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
quackle
Posts with mentions or reviews of quackle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-14.
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Is there a way to analyse Scrabble games similarly to chess?
quackle and macondo both have move analysis.
macondo
Posts with mentions or reviews of macondo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-10.
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Has there been a scrabble AI who can make predictions on the winning probabilities?
Yes! Scrabble AI has been around for decades. Quackle, Elise and Macondo in particular. All of these use similar strategies to find the best moves and to estimate win %. There's still lots of room for improvement though.
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An overview on Scrabble resources
But you can also go one step further, and I'd highly recommend you do. Quackle will run a simulation (i. e., a Monte Carlo rollout) of the game situation to find the move that leads to the best winning chances. This is still by no means a perfect solver of Scrabble, but it is a very instructive tool to understand how to play the game well. Elise does the same thing with some twists and additional features, but isn't quite as user-friendly and only runs on Mac. Both programmes are freeware. There is another engine, Macondo, currently in development that aims to improve on these existing ones. It does not have a GUI yet.
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Web game tile distribution question
you can see the AI code here: https://github.com/domino14/macondo
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Is there a scrabble engine, like an engine you have in chess?
Yes. The most popular one is Quackle, the best one in my opinion is Elise, and a promising new one is Macondo.
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Is there a way to analyse Scrabble games similarly to chess?
quackle and macondo both have move analysis.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing quackle and macondo you can also consider the following projects:
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
liwords - A site that allows people to play a crossword board game against each other
rttr - C++ Reflection Library
Wizium - Insanely fast crossword generator
jiminy - Jiminy: a fast and portable Python/C++ simulator of poly-articulated robots with OpenAI Gym interface for reinforcement learning
blacksquare - A Python package for crossword creators.
plog - Portable, simple and extensible C++ logging library
crossword - Scraping personal NYT crossword stats
FunctionalPlus - Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code.
CGal - The public CGAL repository, see the README below
linjat - A puzzle game