{"id":274,"date":"2011-08-20T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2011-08-20T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T00:52:41","slug":"fun-scrabble-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"Fun Scrabble study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of both scrabble and statistics, I enjoyed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-bloggers.com\/the-luck-and-skill-of-scrabble\/  \">this fun article<\/a>\u00a0about a study of Scrabble scoring. Among the findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player, mainly by making 50-point &#8220;bingo&#8221; plays possible.<\/li>\n<li>Each S is worth about 10 points to the player who draws it.<\/li>\n<li>The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty for having to deal with it due to its effect in reducing bingo opportunities, needing either a U or a blank for a chance at a bingo and a 50-point bonus.<\/li>\n<li>The J is essentially neutral pointwise.<\/li>\n<li>The X and the Z are each worth about 3-5 extra points to the player who receives them. Their difficulty in playing in bingoes is mitigated by their usefulness in other short words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of both scrabble and statistics, I enjoyed\u00a0this fun article\u00a0about a study of Scrabble scoring. Among the findings: The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player, mainly by making 50-point &#8220;bingo&#8221; plays possible. Each S is worth about 10 points to the player who draws it. The Q is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}