My best "Z" score was 212 with "braziers" landing me on two TW and the "I" on a double tile points for a bingo. Ironically, it was within my first 10 times playing on the Scrabble app 3 years ago. I haven't beaten that yet, but I did get 167 score a few games later.
I remember someone playing “boo” on the top of the board. I fished twice and ended up playing bamboozled on there… triple triple, Z on the triple letter (words with friends)… the points were enormous - almost 400 points.
Hello, Will. I've played Scrabble for a while, and am starting to get better at it. I liked this video a lot. One thing I do want to ask is how the Z's value changes between dictionaries. For example, I know that Collins has ZA, ZE, and ZO as two letter words, making scoring so much more opportune than in the Naspa dictionary. Would you rate the Z a highers score if not in Naspa?
Great question! Yes, the Z is already extremely strong in the NWL dictionary, but gains even more power in the Collins dictionary for the reasons you described.
amazing infoz :D cant wait to see the "S" cuz asking myself: is the "S" is the only 5 star letter? even if i a german-dictionary newbie-patzer, i like to enjoy ur contend and try to transpose ur infos to the german-lang. typical german schachtelsatz ;)
Assuming "more often" means "more frequently" in the graph at 4:10 (consonants appearing with Z) - this is gathered by running over the lexicon once? Is it weighted by playability, as in a simulation? In the vowels graph (preceding) - for short words intuitively ZA could be weighted higher than OUZO but I don't know how that is shown in the graph if at all. Playability is very interesting to investigate and I wonder about the possibly over-randomized set of positions used to determine playability (it might be dangerous to under-randomize them but cross-tables might be an excellent source of sample games) (usually playability is found by doing speedy player quackle sims, as far as i understand it, but it's missing from zyzzyva now & that question has always been a mystery to me)
Yeah, I started doing these graphics using 3-5 letter words only and leaving out the two letter words (dealing with them separately) for this reason. Typically a lot of stats are generated by having Quackle play itself thousands of times.
You'll for sure see a *lot* of ZEN, ZIN, ZEIN/ZINE, ZONE, ZOON, AZON, etc. when you learn these words! I surely could have mentioned that. It's mostly that there are six N's in Scrabble and only two Y's, making the Y's high percentage quite surprising given its 4-point value (typically higher point value letters appear much less often in words).
@@wanderer15 I mean I know a lot of zy words like cozy,fuzzy,crazy,fizzy,analyze,catalyze,frazy,zygote,glizzy,glitzy,zazzy,enzyme,hizzy,kizzy,tizzy,shizzy,doozy,dizzy,lazy,jazzy,ritzy,ditzy,woozy,gauzy,zymic,frenzy,gleezy,frizzy,blowzy,snazzy,sleazy,whizzy,breezy,frouzy,boozy,fozy,hazy,dozy,oozy,zyme,izzy,gazy,yeezy,jizzy,buzzy,zizzy,steezy,wheezy,hydrolyzed,hydroxyzine,zesty,grizzly,zephyr, etc..
I absolutely love your videos, but I find it weird and somewhat disturbing that you have to “warn“ viewers that there’s about to be a bunch of graphs. It’s not like you’re doing calculus, or complex analysis. They are just graphs. As mathematical as Scrabble is, I think it’s insulting to imply that these graphs are in any way difficult to comprehend for a decent Scrabble player.
It was a joke. Warnings like that are used for things that could be traumatic, so this was just a play on how some people feel helpless with math. He isn't condescending in the math part either, which reinforces that it was a joke
My best "Z" score was 212 with "braziers" landing me on two TW and the "I" on a double tile points for a bingo. Ironically, it was within my first 10 times playing on the Scrabble app 3 years ago. I haven't beaten that yet, but I did get 167 score a few games later.
Amazing play!
I remember someone playing “boo” on the top of the board. I fished twice and ended up playing bamboozled on there… triple triple, Z on the triple letter (words with friends)… the points were enormous - almost 400 points.
My best “Z” score was “quizzical” through “camping” and “land” with 2 TW’s for 396 pts. Still have no idea how I got that lucky.
i like how he put a trigger warning before doing math
Thanks for this awesome video. It’s great having more scrabble tutorials.
More to come!
Finally got around to downloading Scrabble Go today and got my first 50+ pointer with Jazzer, so I like the Z for now
Nice job man!
@@wanderer15 thanks!
The ultimate range balancer!
Hello, Will. I've played Scrabble for a while, and am starting to get better at it. I liked this video a lot. One thing I do want to ask is how the Z's value changes between dictionaries. For example, I know that Collins has ZA, ZE, and ZO as two letter words, making scoring so much more opportune than in the Naspa dictionary. Would you rate the Z a highers score if not in Naspa?
Great question! Yes, the Z is already extremely strong in the NWL dictionary, but gains even more power in the Collins dictionary for the reasons you described.
Likewise to the J, and the J is a better example to illustrate the Collins - NWL gap! The J in Collins is even not an adverse letter!
Great video Will. I'll vote for H.
amazing infoz :D
cant wait to see the "S" cuz asking myself: is the "S" is the only 5 star letter?
even if i a german-dictionary newbie-patzer, i like to enjoy ur contend and try to transpose ur infos to the german-lang. typical german schachtelsatz ;)
Indeed S is an S-tier!
Mommy once earned so many BINGO wins that they complained.
Assuming "more often" means "more frequently" in the graph at 4:10 (consonants appearing with Z) - this is gathered by running over the lexicon once? Is it weighted by playability, as in a simulation? In the vowels graph (preceding) - for short words intuitively ZA could be weighted higher than OUZO but I don't know how that is shown in the graph if at all. Playability is very interesting to investigate and I wonder about the possibly over-randomized set of positions used to determine playability (it might be dangerous to under-randomize them but cross-tables might be an excellent source of sample games) (usually playability is found by doing speedy player quackle sims, as far as i understand it, but it's missing from zyzzyva now & that question has always been a mystery to me)
Yeah, I started doing these graphics using 3-5 letter words only and leaving out the two letter words (dealing with them separately) for this reason. Typically a lot of stats are generated by having Quackle play itself thousands of times.
Great Video - my favorite letter - the P
Reminds me that someone's alphabet countdown went viral.
3:04 But how do I get that version then??
Play games not using the NWL list. Aka outside of North America.
3:54
N: Am I a joke to you?
But fr, why wasn't N mentioned? It has a higher percentage than Y
You'll for sure see a *lot* of ZEN, ZIN, ZEIN/ZINE, ZONE, ZOON, AZON, etc. when you learn these words! I surely could have mentioned that. It's mostly that there are six N's in Scrabble and only two Y's, making the Y's high percentage quite surprising given its 4-point value (typically higher point value letters appear much less often in words).
@@wanderer15
I mean I know a lot of zy words like cozy,fuzzy,crazy,fizzy,analyze,catalyze,frazy,zygote,glizzy,glitzy,zazzy,enzyme,hizzy,kizzy,tizzy,shizzy,doozy,dizzy,lazy,jazzy,ritzy,ditzy,woozy,gauzy,zymic,frenzy,gleezy,frizzy,blowzy,snazzy,sleazy,whizzy,breezy,frouzy,boozy,fozy,hazy,dozy,oozy,zyme,izzy,gazy,yeezy,jizzy,buzzy,zizzy,steezy,wheezy,hydrolyzed,hydroxyzine,zesty,grizzly,zephyr, etc..
Abbreviations can now be used in scrabble? Za? I thought it was dictionary words only. Are we gonna play proper nouns and slang now too?
scrabble has its own dictionaries and has for a long time.
C
My favourite letter to get in Scrabble is the Z
Omg I know I've done it so many times on Scrabble go...because I am th Scrabble Queen!!
I will start calling pizza za in honor of the word
No one calls pizza a za. za (slang) means marijuana. Most people call it that
i mean the zy combination isn't really that surprising. dizzy,crazy,fizzy,fuzzy,lazy,jazzy,snazzy are some i can think off the top of my head
and rizzy
Do T next!
I think we should do letter R next ok?
4:42 this is saying 0% even though the word "quiz" exists
Quiz and squiz are the only 2 4-5 letter words. A lot of longer words involve multiple z
It's saying it's under 1%, doesn't mean it's 0%.
It's a fraction of a percent
As I said on Twitter.
I want s cuz its popular bingo
I absolutely love your videos, but I find it weird and somewhat disturbing that you have to “warn“ viewers that there’s about to be a bunch of graphs. It’s not like you’re doing calculus, or complex analysis. They are just graphs. As mathematical as Scrabble is, I think it’s insulting to imply that these graphs are in any way difficult to comprehend for a decent Scrabble player.
It was a joke. Warnings like that are used for things that could be traumatic, so this was just a play on how some people feel helpless with math. He isn't condescending in the math part either, which reinforces that it was a joke