Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! is a card game as well as word game by Hasbro. It was released on June 20, 2009. It is based on the popular board game, Scrabble. This game is also available on the Nintendo DSiWare in North America on April 26, 2010, and on "Scrabble Showdown" on The Hub. The game features 55 cards. Each card has 2 letters on them. One on the front and one on the back. The game can have 2 to 4 players. Each player pulls four letters out of the deck to form a four letter word. Afterwards, each
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