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Word Square


Description: Place 25 randomly selected letters on to a 5x5 grid to score points for 3, 4 and 5 letter words.
Category: Puzzles
Number of Times Played: 29616

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Reviews for Word Square


Review by CHC

The odd consonants (W, Q, Z, X etc) are way over-represented and the vowels are way under-represented. Makes the game not very enjoyable. "Randomly-selected" should be weighted according to frequency of appearance in written text.

Review by Programmer

The letter pool is 64 letters. 2 W, 1 Q, 1 Z, 1 X. 22 Vowels.

Review by CHC

I counted the letter frequencies for all 5-letter words in the Tournament Scrabble Wordlist. If the least frequent letter appears once in the pool, you need a letter pool with 566 letters, as follows: 51 A, 14 B, 19 C, 22 D, 58 E, 10 F, 14 G, 15 H, 33 I, 2 J, 12 K, 31 L, 17 M, 26 N, 38 O, 18 P, 1 Q, 37 R, 59 S, 29 T, 22 U, 6 V, 9 W, 3 X, 18 Y, 3 Z.

Review by CHC

A player is lucky to get more than 6-7 vowels in a game. The most common vowel is a "U". On the other hand, I am sure to get at least one and probably 2 "W"s and probably 2 "Y"s.

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