![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes however she will just exchange some letters and you might have to pass again, which would be VERY dangerous, since after Maven exchanges letters she is increasingly likely to score a BINGO! which is very annoying. One more point: you can make Maven go first by passing. Scrabble Complete will then be a minimized icon at the bottom of your screen which you can click to resume play. This is also bad, but you can actually get to some other computer task while keeping the game by hitting the flying Windows key on your keyboard. Bad! Also the game works only as a full-screen game. Of course these stats can be fudged by quitting games you are losing before they are completed, which will keep your rating higher than it would otherwise be.Ī couple more points: You have to have the CD inserted in order to the play the game. Maven will keep these stats for your spouse and kids as well. This is not the same as your rating against Maven, which is displayed on what the program calls your "Player Card" as you set up a game along with your best single play, your highest scoring game, and the number of games you have won. Go to Mini Games menu and click on Professor Maven, and there it is. For example, "LIMITED (5E,20,O)." The characters in the parens stand for where the word started and which direction it went (5E: across), how many points were scored (20), and which letters were left in the rack after the play (an O).Īnother nice feature is that Maven gives you a National Association Scrabble rating for your play in the last ten games. Incidentally, when Maven gives a play in her analysis she gives a complete identity to the play. It would help if the program displayed these average values, but it doesn't. Thus playing "orang" is not as good as playing "along" as an opening word because, although they both score the same, if you play "along" you keep the "r" which is considered more valuable than the "l." This "value" is NOT how many points the letter is worth when played, but how valuable it is to have in your rack on an average basis. And then she gives an analysis of that play, your play, and other plays comparing the points scored and the value of the letters left in your rack. Thus 8H is the center square while 1A is the square in the upper left corner.) Plays that go across are identified as starting at the square beginning with the number, e.g., 8H while the beginning square of plays going down begin with the letter, e.g., H8.Īnyway, you can click on "Next" and Maven will reveal what is probably a better play. Well, I could find the better play now that you mention it, Maven, if the board displayed the coordinates! (Squares on the 15 x15 Scrabble board are identified by "A" through "O" across the top and 1 through 15 vertically. ![]() The four basic comments she makes are, "xxx is probably best," "xxxx is one of the best moves," "xxxx is a good move," and "xxxx was played." She follows the latter three comments with the question "Can you find a play at (e.g.) 8H"? or something similar. It automatically saves all your games and under the Mini Games menu allows you to retrieve each one and have Professor Maven critique your play (and her play as well, actually). Still it is a very good program and a lot of fun to play. Maven's annoying chortles after scoring are gone, so I suppose there is some improvement! But basically infogames or Hasbro or whoever is responsible for the software missed an opportunity to make this into an outstanding program. Also disappointing is the new music, which is as bad as the old music. They need to double-check.) There are no improvements, however, that I can see, and the claim on the package that it "Includes Merriam-Webster's Official SCRABBLE Player's Dictionary, 3rd Edition" is not quite correct since the program continues to disallow many words that are actually in that dictionary, including the frequently used "da." Use "da" in a play and Maven will dissolve it, spin your letters back into your rack, and take her turn! (Some of the people below who have experienced freeze up under Windows XP are probably using Scrabble 2, not this version. It will not freeze up and works smoothly on my machine. This is essentially the crystal box game (Scrabble 2) made compatible with Windows XP. ![]()
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