I played lots of crazy 9s in Clabbers. HastyBot took it personally.

[@frenchfryfan8366]

I would love to see a blitz or normal clabbers match against another top player, I feel like you'd have a big advantage with all the lower prob 9s played but maybe I'm not giving other experts enough credit

[@taylorbrewing]

Hey Mack! Big fan, seen hundreds of your videos. As someone who isn't really that well versed on the scrabble community, I would suggest writing out a description of what Clabbers is and how it works, as well as a description for your other series. You can just reuse the same description depending on what series it is, and it will lower the barrier of entry of new viewers watching!

[@mackmeller]

Thanks! And good idea, I actually created a Clabbers playlist too to make them easier to find and I'll add a description starting next vid

[@9tydegreez]

Appreciate the Michigan shoutout at 3:28 as a Michigander, I remember that video very fondly. Still waiting for the countries of the world edition (probably not going to happen at this point but whatever)

[@mackmeller]

It's still on my list, just haven't gotten around to it! Those videos are admittedly a lot more work than the playing or game analysis ones haha

[@100beep5]

It was already played, but QUART also takes a Z hook. Came up in a puzzle I was setting.

[@nautilus269]

Re 12:52, have never seen you that stunned over an AI play.

[@snowman99tetris]

Hastybot really said "call an ambulance... but not for me"

[@wordgameswithquinn]

The shortest word containing all the letters in Michigan if you're a CSW player is, however, MICHIGAN#.

[@mackmeller]

Whoa, I definitely didn't know that

[@mouykaing6483]

Do we know the equity value of each tile in Clabbers? I'm curious about which values are changed the most from regular Scrabble

[@mackmeller]

Good question -- I don't believe such a database exists, but to me the biggest difference has to be in the tiles JXZ. The Z in particular is amazing in Clabbers given how easy it is to play it for 60+, and the X is also great. And I think the J becomes a legitimately good tile in Clabbers despite being overall not great in Scrabble. The Q... I'm not so sure. QU is definitely better in Clabbers than it is in Scrabble. But Q without U is probably worse, since your options don't improve that much and the impact of not having a 7th tile to work with is undoubtedly larger in Clabbers. So if you average that out, the Q probably stays more or less equally bad. I think S's are the tiles that Clabbers devalues the most. Obviously they're still good, but the difference is while in Scrabble many words take only S's as hooks, in Clabbers that's rarely the case. So it's much rarer in Clabbers you'll get a situation where you need an S to hook a word/use a line, which is a large aspect of why the S is so strong in Scrabble.

[@LunaMygind]

13:10 I would've phonied with O(U)TGAYED too funny not to

[@Larsbutb4d]

outgay doesn't exist bc they know I'm outgaying everyone.