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Challenge #75: Scrabble Word Finder

CBUSYINZER
7 - Meteor

Did it with no macro, separate flows for 0,1, and 2 blanks but essentially the same logic throughout until one point in the workflow. Can clean it up more but it works now so it is probably good.

DaisukeTsuchiya
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar
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Bobbyt23
12 - Quasar

Another really tough challenge, that scrabbled my brain a bit.

ChrisTX
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

My solution

snothando_hlongwane
8 - Asteroid

Challenge #75 Solution

martinson
11 - Bolide

A real brain scratcher, I think my solution is very efficient

Cheers,
martinson

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FilipR
11 - Bolide

This was very challenging and very fun!

 

 

MadyeIBT
8 - Asteroid

Wow! What a challenge! Would be really awesome to make into an app for users to input their own tiles.

myastarling
10 - Fireball

Here's my solution!

This was surprisingly not too difficult - the key was not to think about the number of permutations or the number of letters but to think about how the letters match to what is in your hand, do a few filtering joins, and then think about the scoring only as a function of the tiles you have, not the value of the actual words created. Granted, my solution is not the most efficient thing in the world because I tokenize the subset of qualifying words twice where if I spent more time on it, I could probably eliminate this step. 

But this runs fairly quickly (all three tasks run in under 30 seconds) and its configured that if you have super duper special Scrabble with even more than 2 wildcard tiles, you can change two tools to incorporate even more wildcards.