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This tile-stick endgame will give you Scrabble nightmares!

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There's no worse feeling in Scrabble than having a tile that you literally can't play anywhere. All you can do is sit there, pass, and helplessly watch as your opponent accumulates huge numbers of points.
But that's exactly what happened to top expert Joey Krafchick in a recent game against fellow top player Orry Swift. Joey had an unplayable C, but he was up well over 100 points. Could Orry possibly conjure up a seemingly impossible comeback? It was an endgame for the ages, so you won't want to miss it!

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24 авг 2024

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@axcertypo 2 месяца назад

Worth mentioning that Joey has to block CZARIST/CLOG, no matter what he does, if he's trying to win 100% of endgames

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

Ah yeah good call -- I'd noticed that and meant to mention it then neglected to so so since DIFS blocked it anyway. Thanks for pointing it out man!

@JasonVaysberg 2 месяца назад

I had a game against Greg Edwards when I was a kid where I accidentally "L" stuck myself by playing all my other letters without checking for a spot for my remaining L. He had a full rack. I was up by around 140 or so points. Next thing I know, he sets up an triple letter score X-bomb for 50+, then makes pedestrian QUIRE into SQUIRE into ESQUIRE into ESQUIRED forming perpendicular plays with the S, E, and D. Each of these was over 20 points. He ended up winning by 1 point. It was an L.

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

That's absolutely wild! You don't happen to have a copy of the game by chance, do you? I'd love to make a followup video on that

@bearfinn 2 месяца назад

Lmao good pun

@JasonVaysberg 2 месяца назад

@@mackmeller unfortunately, I do not. :/

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

@@JasonVaysberg Dang. I know the feeling all too well though, I have several early-career games where something extremely notable happened (and would easily be video-worthy), but they're sadly lost to posterity

@usernameusername4037 2 месяца назад

Why didn't he play IT before ZIT?

@axcertypo 2 месяца назад

yeah, seems Orry left 3 points on the table when all was said and done. Still a brilliant sequence!

@JasonVaysberg 2 месяца назад

I was just about to comment this.

@micahuttecht 2 месяца назад

Agreed, thought of an first I believe it scores 3 more

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

Yep, good catch! That would've indeed gotten him 2 more points than the sequence he played. Luckily for him he still (barely) had enough!

@kamranrachlin2769 2 месяца назад

Given the point left on the final play, I am choosing to believe he had calculated everything to win by exactly one for content

@domino14 2 месяца назад

Fascinating. I solved the pre-endgame with Macondo looking down to 14 plies and it took over 4 hours. I got it to just solve the one move of INFUSED and it takes at least 15 minutes to finally see that it loses with the C (at ply 11). After 14 plies the results are: 👍: [A] [B] [I] [R] [S] [T] [Z] 👎: [C] So every letter wins but the C. Unlucky Joey. BTW it seems E2 DIFS is the second best play after E1 NEIFS, which wins by about a point more on average. Nice spotting it in a few seconds of thinking, it took Macondo more than 4 hours. Obviously there are many more optimizations we can make, but this should shed some light on why BestBot is so slow sometimes. Will keep thinking of ways to speed it up and optimize it more!

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

Really cool, thanks for the detail there! Good to have confirmation that Joey would've withstood a Z stick if he drew that after bingoing, I had a strong feeling Orry wouldn't be able to score enough but hard to know for sure.

@bernmahan1162 2 месяца назад

Really smart endplay from Orry!

@alexlatham6836 2 месяца назад

In Joel Wapnick’s book, there was another game where a player made a bingo (DRIBLET) that was a mistake. However, that player won by only one point because their opponent’s rack did not have one of the possible winning bingos (it only had a losing bingo).

@mackmeller 2 месяца назад

Interesting! Yeah it happens more than you'd think that passing up a bingo with 7 or fewer in the bag is correct to avoid emptying the bag, you'd be surprised how many points your opponent can make up by either sticking you or bingoing out and catching you with a bunch of unplayed tiles