After selecting the language, click on New Game.
You will have the following options:
| Number of players: |
With the + and - buttons, you can change
the number of players. There can be at most 6 players. |
| Number of letters: |
This means the number of letters you will have on your
rack each round. In the official Scrabble rules, this should
be 7, but you can vary it. |
| Names of players: |
In the text boxes provided, you can enter your names. |
| Computer players: |
By clicking the little boxes to the right of the names,
you can have some players taken over by the computer. The
computer will choose itself a name. You can control how good
the computer player will be, by clicking the up and down buttons
that appear when you select a player to be a computer player.
The stupidest is Strength 1, whereas at Strength 100 it will
always place the word that yields most points. At Strength 50,
for example, each turn there is a 50% chance that it will find
the best possibility, 25% for the second best etc. If the
computer cannot find a word at all, it will exchange all its
letters (which it will do very often at Strength 1). |
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Note: The higher you set the Strength, and the bigger
the dictionary for the language you select, the longer the
computer will have to think before it places a word. On a
Pentium II with 400 MHz, it takes up to 1 minute 30 seconds
at Strength 100 with a dictionary as large as the one for
English. (It gets faster as the board gets filled though.) |
Then click on OK to start the game.
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