Scrabble GM vs. AI -- the Rematch! Game #31 

Bestbot: “I can’t win this any other way, let’s try to overload the flesh-being’s circuits.”

I was laughing so hard at what transpired at the end there. I feel like against any human, Mack would (correctly) infer that his opponent is just desperately hoping that he doesn't have an S or a blank to punish that move so they can reap the benefits themselves on their next turn. But, because it is BestBot, Mack immediately assumes this is some supergenius play where the bot wins by letting him have a 90 point play 🤣

JOGGLER is fine. I've made plays like this before. Happens more than you'd think, and I've seen Will and others make a play like this before, too. Scrabble preendgames are fun because all sorts of plays become optimal that seem nutty at first.

I once took a workshop on joggling. The teacher, Matt Feldman, had set a world record by running 100 meters in 13.3 seconds while keeping 5 balls in the air. Very disappointed to see that that's not what "joggler" means.

Ooh! I ran into that same bug when I made my Anagrams website. When certain events happened simultaneously, tiles would occasionally get 'eaten' just like the J. It was definitely a client-side bug-- information not getting updated onscreen like it should. Glad to see that even better programmers grapple with this issue.

My thoughts on the JOGGLER turn: If you hit that spot hard with a V, C or M, the bot has chances to play outbingos that leave you enough tiles on rack to win anyway. (V)ENTURIs, (M)UTINeER, (C)eEINTURE, (C)INCTURe, etc... I'm curious if the bot might calculate that opponents will want to get rid of the V more than most other letters, making the V a likelier floater to rely on. If the bot somehow gets the blank, it also has RE(F)UTING at the top. The Bot's POV shows 2 S's, 1 E and 1 blank in the bag, so there might be more outbingos when an unsuspecting player cashes in on the VIMS spot. Playing fewer tiles from the bot's POV also leaves more tiles on your rack when it outbingos. Of course why these gambly lines were chosen over other options, who knows.

How nice of the bot to show you some mercy 😂

BestBot simply ran out of juice and returned to HastyBot for that last play. Outstanding

JOGGLER the typa play my grandma would make no cap bruh

38:37 omg thanks for fixing your mic! Was sweating when your clock was ticking away while you sat there baffled 😂

on a streak now. clearly bestbot’s angle was to surprise you so much that you would forget to play and flag. almost worked too. 😮

It'd be interesting to see a Quackle sim of the JOGGLER position, to see if it's as stumped as you

Maybe the bot was like "for content let's play (JOGGLE)R "

Best bot trying to make you lose by flagging out because of what a weird move that was?

The bot just broke Mack hahaha. For the INBY turn, the bot is just simming, which people always assume yields the best results but often it really doesn't.

Bot starting out offensive with this one 🔥 🔥🔥

Most entertaining game I’ve seen on this channel, btw in scrabble tournaments what is the etiquette for playing non PC words?

Seems like getting up to a ~30% win% would be solid. I wasn't here for the last series, where did things end up?

0:21 The bot not hiding it's feelings toward Mack today.

From what I checked, joggler is the second best move. The best move is what I first saw, which is Turnip. Turnip apparently wins around 48%, and Joggler wins around 45%. I can understand Turnip. Your rack is terrible, so emptying the bag to give your opponent only one chance to bingo is probably your best chance. Fishing right now just doesn't seem to accomplish anything. I could never play Joggler.

after "joggler" i gave mack a 0% shot of winning. thought the out bingo was assuredly coming down and the game was over.

HI MACK❤

The first play is wild straight fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I thought slurs were removed from the word list a few years back.