Two FIFTEEN-letter words wasn't enough to win this Scrabble game!

[@jacobwolfe3304]

Two fifteen letter words? Am I hallucinating, or is the air around me dehydrogenizing? Either that, or someone around me must be decarboxylating some THCA.

[@mackmeller]

Amazing comment. That deserves a pin

[@JDHinten]

Even in CSW you cannot escape the 9 timers containing JACK 😩

[@johnwilder4789]

Solved both the 15s but only bc I knew they were coming, and wouldn’t have been sure they were words otherwise. This is incredible, major props to whoever designed this one

[@mackmeller]

Yeah for sure, I was shocked to see someone beat it and even more shocked when I saw the 15s

[@lovemathboy]

​@@mackmeller I wouldn't be too surprised to see it get beaten using a far larger dictionary :P. We did look into the 15s back when constructing this challenging using NWL, and I think we eventually decided that none of the 15s were viable.

[@heichan8657]

so basically, study chemistry if you want to play 15 letters words

[@bbateson]

Not just the 15s. Plenty of good 7s and 8s on the periodic table (along with their compounds), the classic front hook of an M onto many words beginning ETH..., and I've had AZO challenged incorrectly more than once by beginners.

[@Unchained_Alice]

6:12 I was waiting for that play as soon as I saw hydrogen. Didnt know exactly what it'd be but knew there would be something so worked with a dictionary to work out what it was going to be

[@AOOA926]

The thumbnail still shows that word clearly

[@ketsu_pl]

In your previous video you scored less points in whole game against Will than some of those single words gained. Btw, a ridiculously beautiful game and ends in a tie😂

[@thegodofpez]

Long story short, this was beautiful. Non-Scrabble players will never understand the will. Zero pun intended. But… ❤ Will anyhow.

[@amirilan4435]

I love the many chemical words haha

[@davidstone9981]

That is REALLY remarkable. I miss the days of the old Scrabble News; this would have made a terrific article (and made a terrific video instead!). Nice job.

[@AmaranthRBY]

Well well well... looks like I have to head back to the kitchen. Really nice layout

[@mackmeller]

Haha I believe in you! With all the additional 2s and bingos in CSW your overlap strategy could be significantly enhanced, so I feel like it’s doable

[@craiglarimer1173]

Amazing game. Well presented.

[@nimbletim]

this is so entertaining! but it surely takes a huge effort to set it all up.

[@Teehee5772]

Not really, I only made the layout and a brute force program that I ran while doing some other things

[@JasonVaysberg]

I wanted to play around with this challenge, but was too busy at the time. Maybe this will inspire me to try now.

[@mackmeller]

You totally should, it’s fun! But fair warning, it’s also addictive haha

[@Teehee5772]

@@mackmeller Can confirm (I made this btw)

[@mackmeller]

@@Teehee5772 thanks so much again for taking the time to do this and send it (and sorry it took a while for me to finally get the vid out)!

[@dimitriskontoleon6787]

Try the biggest possible score with only one player, and of course only with only bingos (and the last 2 letters)

[@Dashmast3r]

How long does it take to plan out a game like this? And how different is the skillset of a board constructor vs a top level tournament Scrabble player? I'm sure there's a lot of overlap, but it wouldn't be perfect.

[@Teehee5772]

I'll start off by saying that I'm a terrible scrabble player and a very good programmer (I like to think I'm one at least). It took me a total of around 25-50 hours to find this game, though only ~5 hours of that was spent coming up with a layout, and the rest was spent running my brute force program.

[@Dashmast3r]

@@Teehee5772 Meaning, you came up with the final board layout without programming assistance, then ran the program to find the sequence of letter draws that could result in the layout? Still damn impressive, just finding the layout! You must've had to look up some of the words...

[@100beep5]

GODDAMNIT! I was *just* about to start work on a board with a similar idea... okay, it's back on now, I'd *better* beat this...

[@mackmeller]

Haha! Please let me know if you do :)

[@throwaway1743]

12/25 tie! Merry early Christmas to me!

[@caseydahl1952]

how many 15 letter words that contain within them 8 letter words are there?

[@Teehee5772]

only a few hundreds, I forgot the exact amount

[@canthishamstergetto2ksubs530]

You could get a better idea by ending stuff with the “-ization” 7 letter suffix

[@Wouter10123]

Why are Americans so resistant to using the international dictionary?

[@mavenofmacau6391]

Because it has even more words than no one considers words. The North American dictionary already has enough of those.

[@mackmeller]

Maven’s response is the main reason, and another deterrent is a lot of folks dislike the 5-point challenge rule the international lexicon uses since they feel it devalues word knowledge.

[@Wouter10123]

@@mackmeller Thanks! I'm a new player (not from NA) wondering which dictionary I should use. Probably the international one. The amount of words is pretty overwhelming, but then again, so is the NA dictionary.

[@eighthcoda]

Other reasons: In America, most tournaments use the North American-specific dictionary. Those tournaments tend to be better-attended, with weaker competition and better prize money, which means higher expected value. Finally, once you begin studying those extra words, it becomes very difficult keeping them distinct from the smaller lexicon. It's been 10+ years since I last looked over the international lexicon, but I still have dictionary confusion on a regular basis. Personally, I like the exoticness of the international words and would gladly switch if it became expedient to do so. I do agree that the 5/10-point challenge rule is too weak and devalues the psychological complexity of bluffing.

[@Teehee5772]

I wouldve used the NWL dictionary, but I couldnt get my hands on a text file

[@tommihommi1]

I was expecting "Dehydrogenation" from the thumbnail, wasn't aware of the synonym. Guess it's not in the american dictionary because nobody uses it.

[@Trizzer89]

What is UR?

[@Mattdean76]

its a collins only word

[@Zekses]

mom (sorry, I had to do it)

[@JDHinten]

I think it is meant to be "earliest" or "original" like in the word URTEXT, but for some reason the prefix is treated like an adjective by itself in CSW.

[@Ian07_]

variant of UH or ER

[@eric-smith-egg]

@@Zekses ur mom

[@loxwjman]

Was just thinking about dehydrogenizing my epopoeia with my manjacks to vanquish my neurotic xerafins when decarboyxlatingly it all just happened in this game.