Scrabble with worse tiles worth more points! 

7:13 Mack, when asked what advantages he still has over Quackle: "I have iNF(ERE)NCES!"

Mack: plays a 10-letter word Quackle: what a DORK, my 4-letter word scores more

Yes! I've always thought the tile values needed to be tweaked as new words were added. The Z is particularly overpowered, especially in Collins.

I wonder how Scrabble would play with: - O worth 2 - U, G worth 3 - B worth 4 - W worth 5 - V, X worth 6 - Z worth 8 - Q worth 12 - an extra copy of K, one less copy of I Might that even out the static leaves by a lot, and make scoring leaves more competitive with bingo leaves?

Adjusting each tile's value by its static leave value is a nice idea. However, vowels' static leave values are low because having too many vowels is bad, and don't take into account how good a vowel usually is in combo with a consonant. So your new tile values over-reward maintaining a good vowel/consonant ratio.

I have a suggestion for a modified game. Play Scrabble but the tiles of the same letter have different points that are the first few multiples of their original points. So the 4 Ds have 2, 4, 6, and 8 points, the 2 Ms have 3 and 6 points, and the 12 Es have 1, 2, 3, ..., 12 points. That means all tiles are different. You can pull a 1 point R from the bag but you can also pull a 6 point R.

This is a great concept, but may need further adjustments as the static leave values are informed partially by tile frequency. for example, having four points for O is clearly too high as there are 8 of them

It would've been really funny if the "buffed" Q actually just ended up hurting Quackle even more when it ended up stuck with it, unfortunately he's too good Sick 10

ey! Thank you for playing my suggestion! Can't wait to see how it goes. EDIT: oh my god 7:07

So glad you finally make video for this concept!! Look so forward to your later adjustment!

Do the static leave values still make sense given the new tile values? e.g. Z has a positive 5 static value, but surely that should be reduced as the tile value is now only 5? This is obviously circular - would need some decent maths to work out the "correct" value.

Since score bonuses involve doubling or tripling the tile's face value, I think changing the face value by 1 changes its static leave by a lot more. Also I'm guessing static leave doesn't fully capture the tiles strategic value in playing. Makes me think a "scrabble tile tier list" video could be fun. Also the Q has a -7 static leave with QI legal. How atrocious was the Q before that?

This is a pretty cool idea

iNF(ERE)NCES!

Obviously the tiles in *this* game have different static leave values, so what if you figured that out and did a second round of adjustments? A third? Would tile scores eventually stabilize with everything having either zero static leave value or worth zero points?

Hey Mack. How about making the best tile in this format worth 0, and then scaling all the other ones up relative to that one? Ignoring the blanks, let's say E is the worst tile in this format at a value of -12 (random number just to illustrate the point). E becomes worth 0. Then any tile worth -8 would become a 4, a tile worth -3 would become a 9, etc. Or can scale up from 1 instead of 0, too.

The math doesn't really make sense since you can score double or in two directions

23:55 It was setting up the theme for idiotism.

What about scrabble but each letters are worth 5 or 10 extra points ?

what program, how do you change tile values, and does the program work on linux

By the way, "zlote" is pronounced "zwoteh," it's Polish currency. Source: spent two months in Warsaw

If the tiles were about how frequent they are then how is H worth 4 points? The most common english word has an H... Scrabble shouldn't be giving them certain points because of how frequent they are in english, cuz for Z and Q to worth both 10 points is insane to me when Z is easier to play than V. Then again Z worthing 10 points devalue the tile cuz Scrabble ever be creating some Z words that's not actual words in oxford dictionary. It's worth 10 points for a reason that it's not used much and should be hard to play but everyday Scrabble have a new Z word for what? Now the Z don't value it's 10 points