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The Computer Edition of the Scrabble Brand Crossword Game -- Game #1 Analysis

Hello friend-- It's a new series for the Scotty Euclid channel; I'm playing the 1989 MS-DOS version of Scrabble, which goes by the wordy title "The Computer Edition of Scrabble Brand Crossword Game". Produced by Leisure Genius, I believe it is the first computerized version of Scrabble for MS-DOS sold in the United States. After completing my first game ( part 1 and part 2 ), I decided to review how I did via the Quackle tool. This free software was produced by some major players in the Scrabble community and is used by the experts to review their games. I'm not an expert, but I thought it might be fun to look for some plays that I might have missed. Was there a bingo that I could have played in this game against Wordy? Well, yes, but it wasn't an obvious play. Let's take a look at the game. By the way, I used Quackle's Generate Choices command, but I didn't do any in-depth simulations or analysis. It's just a casual game against a 30+ year ol...