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Gaming the Scrabble System
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I thought this was interesting. The tournament winner has totally gamed the system to achieve success. To him, it's not even a word game, it's a mathematical exercise.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/...0040817-011447-9768r








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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Good article. The cynic in me is tempted to ask if he doesn't have something better to do with his time, but he just won 25k, so I will shut up.

As a random aside, I one knew a teacher who said she saw numbers as colours. Any neuroscientists on board?

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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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It is interesting also because music, his other profession, aside from being an expression of emotion interpreted as "art" is also, quite simply, a mathematical excerise.

I guess it just depends which cognitive mindset one chooses to use.
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As a random aside, I one knew a teacher who said she saw numbers as colours. Any neuroscientists on board?
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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [JRH] [ In reply to ]
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Reply again - the first one didn't take!

Re the art/numbers mindset thing:

Can you choose the mindset? or is it just the way you are wired?

This stuff goes over my head just below higer maths and physics does. I tried to read Fermats Last Theroem last year and it almost made me cry it was so impenetrable - I had to stop reading it.

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As a random aside, I one knew a teacher who said she saw numbers as colours. Any neuroscientists on board?


Synesthesia is the term. I see certain numbers and letters (and musical keys, by virtue of the latter) as colors. I have no clue what the mechanism is though.

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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [jhc] [ In reply to ]
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Just for fun...

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The funny thing is that the numbers seem to follow the usual ROYGBIV pattern while the letters don't...

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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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Everything is a mathematic exercise.
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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [goobie] [ In reply to ]
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I will try this response again:


Synesthesia is the experience of cross-modal perception/processing. A good, though old (1995), article:

http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/...he-2-10-cytowic.html

MIT has a concise definition, and a few links, if you don't want to read the whole article above: http://web.mit.edu/...www/synesthesia.html
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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [goobie] [ In reply to ]
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When my wife was getting her masters degree for special education they had a lady come in (PhD) who thinks in pictures not in language (that may not make sense to anyone but me). I'll look tonight and see if I can find her name.

I remember think that lady was crazy as hell, she was talking about what cows would be thinking about since she believes they think in pictures also.
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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [Shad] [ In reply to ]
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I think Tibb's is like that - except he only thinks in pictures of bike porn.

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Re: Gaming the Scrabble System [vitus979] [ In reply to ]
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I definitely could relate to that article, since I am not only a Scrabble and mathematics lover, but also was trained at Juilliard as a concert pianist and hold three degrees in music. But I have to admit that that quasi-mathematical approach would take most of the fun out of the game!

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