Maven (Scrabble) on Scrabble. The problem with Alpha Beta is that some Scrabble endgames require 14 moves to play out, and it is not possible to search that deeply. This is not merely a theoretical possibility. When one player is "stuck" with a tile, then playing out all remaining tiles is impossible. In that situation the optimal strategy for both sides is usually to play one tile on each turn. Maven uses a different approach. The B* search algorithm is a selective-depth, progressive-widening algorithm that guarantees to find optimal solutions to two-player games when one can compute upper and lower bounds on
Scrabble letter distributions it is used in some borrowed words. Zhuyin Chinese-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles. The letter ㄙ ("S)" has no tile as it is almost exclusively used in the letter ㄕ (SH) in this edition. The letters ㄘ ("C)", ㄔ ("CH"), ㄈ ("F)", ㄎ ("K)", and ㄆ ("P)" are used in Zhuyin, but so infrequently that they have no tiles. Scrabble letter distributions Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule,