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To: Estimated Prophet who wrote (6265)	9/9/1998 11:38:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 49843

At 1st I thought it would be easy to write a program that could beat any human in Scrabble but it would be hard to program in a bluff level depending on your opponent. I'll put down words I know aren't real against opponents that don't know better. I also do things like trying to put down words I only know from my experience with animals against opponents with good vocabularies who know nothing about pets. I can usually get them to challenge a couple of real words. Nuances like that would be impossible to program. But then again you can't fool a computer, so you couldn't bluff it either. All and all I think a program could be written that would beat all but the best players in the world. The Scrabble CD-rom lets you play against the computer and at different difficulty levels but I never tried it.