MTN Televised Scrabble Archive ------------------------------ I've been hooked on MTN_'s televised scrabble since Kate Bauer and I stumbled across it a few weeks back. The only on-line mention I can find of it is an old review_ in a student paper. I'm thinking of getting a group of folks together to play as a team semi-regularly, but while that's getting setup I decided to start archiving the games, because that's the sort of thing I do, I guess. I started out by looking to see if there already was a standard scrabble game notation. There are a few, but none of them are particularly well thought out. The most commons seems to be the log2_ format. It's human readable, but pretty fiddly syntax wise. Last weeks game as a log2 file starts like this: :: Hamil Mpls 8h CARP +16 16 MIXIWOD i7 WAX +25 25 h8 COPE +17 33 IIMODTL 11e MODEL +16 41 9g FOX +17 50 IITEYTG 10d GEY +28 69 In addition to creating a `log2 file`_ for the game, I created a first cut at an on-line HTML visualization as found here: https://ry4an.org/scrabble/games/2005-06-21/ The image on that page: |board| was created with the help of the board display tool by `Graham Toal`_. Once I get that page into a format I like, I'll probably create a CGI that converts log2 files to HTML visualizations on the fly. I, however, definitely don't have time for something like that now. .. _MTN: http://mtn.org/ .. _review: http://faculty.normandale.edu/~lions_roar/April%2029/scrabble.html .. _log2: http://web.archive.org/web/20030201164549/http://www.doe.carleton.ca/~jac/acdir/log2.html .. _log2 file: https://ry4an.org/scrabble/games/2005-06-21/scrabble-2005-06-21.txt .. _Graham Toal: http://www.gtoal.com/ .. |board| image:: https://ry4an.org/scrabble/games/2005-06-21/board.png **Comments** ------------------------- I think this idea is really cool. -Hamil .. date: 1119589200 .. tags: ideas-built