My best "Z" score was 212 with "braziers" landing me on two TW and the "I" on a double tile points for a bingo. Ironically, it was within my first 10 times playing on the Scrabble app 3 years ago. I haven't beaten that yet, but I did get 167 score a few games later.
Hello, Will. I've played Scrabble for a while, and am starting to get better at it. I liked this video a lot. One thing I do want to ask is how the Z's value changes between dictionaries. For example, I know that Collins has ZA, ZE, and ZO as two letter words, making scoring so much more opportune than in the Naspa dictionary. Would you rate the Z a highers score if not in Naspa?
Great question! Yes, the Z is already extremely strong in the NWL dictionary, but gains even more power in the Collins dictionary for the reasons you described.
I remember someone playing “boo” on the top of the board. I fished twice and ended up playing bamboozled on there… triple triple, Z on the triple letter (words with friends)… the points were enormous - almost 400 points.
amazing infoz :D cant wait to see the "S" cuz asking myself: is the "S" is the only 5 star letter? even if i a german-dictionary newbie-patzer, i like to enjoy ur contend and try to transpose ur infos to the german-lang. typical german schachtelsatz ;)
You'll for sure see a *lot* of ZEN, ZIN, ZEIN/ZINE, ZONE, ZOON, AZON, etc. when you learn these words! I surely could have mentioned that. It's mostly that there are six N's in Scrabble and only two Y's, making the Y's high percentage quite surprising given its 4-point value (typically higher point value letters appear much less often in words).
@@wanderer15 I mean I know a lot of zy words like cozy,fuzzy,crazy,fizzy,analyze,catalyze,frazy,zygote,glizzy,glitzy,zazzy,enzyme,hizzy,kizzy,tizzy,shizzy,doozy,dizzy,lazy,jazzy,ritzy,ditzy,woozy,gauzy,zymic,frenzy,gleezy,frizzy,blowzy,snazzy,sleazy,whizzy,breezy,frouzy,boozy,fozy,hazy,dozy,oozy,zyme,izzy,gazy,yeezy,jizzy,buzzy,zizzy,steezy,wheezy,hydrolyzed,hydroxyzine,zesty,grizzly,zephyr, etc..
Assuming "more often" means "more frequently" in the graph at 4:10 (consonants appearing with Z) - this is gathered by running over the lexicon once? Is it weighted by playability, as in a simulation? In the vowels graph (preceding) - for short words intuitively ZA could be weighted higher than OUZO but I don't know how that is shown in the graph if at all. Playability is very interesting to investigate and I wonder about the possibly over-randomized set of positions used to determine playability (it might be dangerous to under-randomize them but cross-tables might be an excellent source of sample games) (usually playability is found by doing speedy player quackle sims, as far as i understand it, but it's missing from zyzzyva now & that question has always been a mystery to me)
Yeah, I started doing these graphics using 3-5 letter words only and leaving out the two letter words (dealing with them separately) for this reason. Typically a lot of stats are generated by having Quackle play itself thousands of times.
I absolutely love your videos, but I find it weird and somewhat disturbing that you have to “warn“ viewers that there’s about to be a bunch of graphs. It’s not like you’re doing calculus, or complex analysis. They are just graphs. As mathematical as Scrabble is, I think it’s insulting to imply that these graphs are in any way difficult to comprehend for a decent Scrabble player.
It was a joke. Warnings like that are used for things that could be traumatic, so this was just a play on how some people feel helpless with math. He isn't condescending in the math part either, which reinforces that it was a joke
