Bøger af Francis Gurtowski

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Rubik Crossword: a puzzle consisting of a grid with overlapping niches and a schedule of the instances of the letters belonging in the coincident or separate squares of said niches, the object being to tile the squares with letters spelling out words.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

This is more an "art installation" than your run-of-the-mill coffee-table tome. Buy this book, take it apart, carefully, of course, and frame the dozen separate prints. A jagged red line is stuck in a maze and tries to extend its reach to all walls of its prison.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Rubik Crossword: a puzzle consisting of a grid with overlapping niches and a schedule of the instances of the letters belonging in the coincident or separate squares of said niches, the object being to tile the squares with letters spelling out words.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Follow along, move by move, as a brute-force-search (BFS) algorithm constructs a crossword puzzle in the manner of Scrabble.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.

Sunday Scrabble - which is played by arranging nine store-bought, off-the-shelf, Scrabble boards into a composite three-board by three-board (forty-five-square by forty-five-square) mega grid and combining the corresponding nine standard bags of one hundred tiles each into a single Sunday bag of nine hundred tiles all told - gets even better and better as you vary the minimum word-width from the classic two letters to seven letters, one more letter at a time. So says the author after 120, two-person games of Sunday Scrabble while meticulously recording the turn-by-turn results. Games 1-20 play two-letter words on up. Games 21-40 play three-letter words on up. Games 41-60 play four-letter words on up. Games 61-80 play five-letter words on up. Games 81-100 play six-letter words on up. Games 101-120 play seven-letter words on up

Shoot-Out Scrabble is played by sequestering the blank tiles until all of the letter tiles are out of the bag - and then playing blank tiles ... in spades.

Calling all parents, grandparents, teachers, and school Principals. Here is a series of workbooks for all seasons and all reasons. Your significant child, grandchild, or student colors both inside and outside the outlines of letters, digits, and more. The sooner the better he/she learns to think with his/her hands as well as their brain. And it is never too late to begin or resume the learning process. Mastering any skill requires a minimum of 10,000 repetitions. There are no shortcuts in life. Drill, baby, drill. Oh, and these are not just any letters and numbers stamped at random on the pages within. The visual schema has a deep alphanumerical underpinning in the branch of mathematics known as number theory. Yea there is some serious, subtle math going on - which furthermore engages both halves of the brain, and does so simultaneously. It all starts with 117 different, six-letter word squares - one of them per two-page spread of the workbook. Six words across and six more of the same down. A total of thirty-six letters in all per 6x6 grid. The respective pages on the left of each spread have a larger font for coloring just the word square itself during an initial pass through the workbook, while them on the right of each spread have two smaller fonts for subsequently coloring an intricate spin-off. That they are never thirty-six different letters is the first thing the budding mathematician notices. Far from it. Here is the algorithm. Assign the digit '1' to the first letter that appears more than once in the word square. Assign the digit '2' to the second other letter that appears more than once in the word square. And so on. The digits from '1' to '9' are insufficient. After '9' assign the symbols '*', '@', and '#' - a dozen does it. Assign the digit '0' to each of the remaining solitaires. So now we have encoded a word square composed of the letters of the alphabet into the corresponding substitution cipher with the added twist that the latter is composed of the numerical digits - and perhaps some symbols. As you see on the front cover, this is fine fodder for concocting a riveting, revealing representation of the original word square.

The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.