Ultimate Scrabble battle: Grandmaster vs. AI! Game #68

[@anewfuture]

Mack took the antirisk approach near the end of the game.

[@mackmeller]

Yeah, I worked in finance for a few years and it's definitely a term I heard used there many times too... may have also been a source of the confusion haha

[@axcertypo]

CELLE* :O sometimes I must remember you're human

[@axcertypo]

ANTIRISK* too! Thanks for making me feel better about letting INCURL* go after challenging it last time it was played against me, missing SOBRIETY, blowing an endgame when any valid play wins with PELONS# and chickening out of FAKIE. Nobody asked but here we are

[@lizg6515]

Maybe he was mixing it up with SELLE.

[@mackmeller]

Dangit. I swear that's at least the 10th time I thought that 5 was good. Ugh. Sorry guys for the confusion

[@mackmeller]

@@axcertypo Lol, happens to the best of us (at least the best of us whose name is not Nigel Richards)

[@mavenofmacau6391]

Mack, how many of the 1000 new words do you already know? And every time you beat down Best Bot just makes my day

[@mackmeller]

Thanks so much for the support! And I studied all the new 2-8s, though I definitely need more practice playing with them as knowing the words and being accustomed to actually spotting them in a game are two very different things.

[@ohtani2024]

Lets make a video for the new words!!

[@rickb5314]

If you had played ANTIRISK* and bestbot had QUATRAIN, would the bot leave the play on the board or does it automatically challenge off invalid plays?

[@kub2039]

The bot would still have QUATRAIN after antirisk gets challenged off the board, so it's still better to challenge it. Though it's a good question whether the bot would challenge if a phoney opened up a big play that wasn't there before.

[@AlexDings]

It automatically challenges. Definitely something that should be developed in the future though.

[@mackmeller]

Great point! Alex is correct that the bot automatically challenges, but there are absolutely real-life situations where it's better to leave a phony on the board, so would be a cool feature to develop.

[@Splax77]

Very nice game! Glad to see you drawing well for once :) Seconding the suggestion for a video on the highlights of NWL23 - would love to see what new possibilities are opened up

[@mackmeller]

Thanks so much! And regarding the video suggestion, we'll see! Will Anderson already made a good one a while ago so I'll have to see if I can do so without duplicating his work

[@coolnath99]

congrats on the win. hopefully the bot hasnt studied nwl23 and you can catch it in the next games

[@mackmeller]

Thanks so much! We'll see haha...

[@GreaterJan]

I thought you played TRAIN intentionally because QUATRAIN is fewer points after that, crazy that you missed that 😅

[@mackmeller]

Yeah that was a rather strange lapse on my end, but these things happen!

[@theycallmeevan]

Would you be able to make a video talking about the most important words from NWL23? It would be nice to have words such as the new 3 letters words, new high probability bingos, and words with power tiles shown off. Plus any other words you deem important!

[@mackmeller]

Maybe! Will Anderson already made a good one a while ago, though, so I'll have to see if I can do so without duplicating his work

[@Mathemagical55]

AEIRLTS and AEIRNTS are probably the best possible racks (excluding blanks)

[@itchy7879]

Spoiler shield!!!!!!! 🛡️

[@Para20Site]

Honestly would be kinda funny if you play one of the phoneys from your videos in a game accidentally because you remember it being played.

[@mackmeller]

It's certainly possible!

[@judylevitt4555]

Axcertypo already stole my comment

[@asdfasdf4924]

On that EEELLSZ play, I don't think the other options other than ZEE that you considered were worth considering. The plays forming FETE were no good with 3 Ds out, and with a lead you don't want to be opening up the board. Also, if the bot does bingo after ZEE it's going to open a triple lane so you'll be able to make up the points, unless he hooks FET

[@asdfasdf4924]

I wish you would have played ANTIRISK for the content