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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Fwd: RE: Klingon Scrabble

Robyn Stewart ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

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I'm pretty sure tere are supposed to be 102 tiles, including the blanks,
so 100 non-blanks. <br><br>
At 05:39 '?????' 1/11/2013, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I just did a rough attempt,
having added all letter frequencies cited so far and trying to find a
comparable point value:<br><br>
Letter Number Points<br>
'101<br>
a101<br>
e81<br>
I81<br>
H61<br>
o61<br>
u51<br>
j51<br>
v51<br>
m41<br>
D42<br>
g32<br>
l32<br>
q23<br>
t23<br>
ch23<br>
b24<br>
S24<br>
p24<br>
n24<br>
w25<br>
y15<br>
r18<br>
tlh18<br>
Q110<br>
ng110<br>
?lank20<br>
10087<br><br>
The number of tiles (100) and the total point value (87) equal the
English version of the game. What do you all think?<br><br>
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Michael Roney, Jr. PKT
&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>&gt;
wrote:<br>

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<dd>On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Robyn Stewart
&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>&gt;
wrote:<br>

<dd>&gt; Another question from the Canadian Scrabble-maker:<br>

<dd>&gt;
<a href="http://www.creativetrophies.ca";>
http://www.creativetrophies.ca</a><br>

<dd>&gt;<br>

<dd>&gt; &quot;Another question, how would you advise me to make the
tiles; English and<br>

<dd>&gt; pIqaD letters and numbers to help learn Klingon and/or just
Klingon???&quot;<br>

<dd>&gt;<br><br>

<dd>Personally, I would be interested in a pIqaD-only set.<br>

<dd>But I know that there are plenty of Klingonists who have no
interest<br>

<dd>in learning pIqaD.<br><br>

<dd>I also know that I'd be more likely to get my wife to play if
she<br>

<dd>could read the tiles...<br>

<dd>A few years back, my wife gladly played with qurgh's set and my
pocket<br>

<dd>dictionary.<br><br>

<dd>Not knowing the costs to the tile maker, I'd suggest offering two
sets.<br><br>

<dd>&gt;&gt;Now does anyone want to suggest which letter frequencies we
diminish in order to bring the qaghwI' frequency up close to the 'at
&gt;&gt;frequency?&nbsp; I'm fine with leaving the letter values as they
are, even though it looks that tlh is overvalued, but it might improve
&gt;&gt;playability to have a few more qaghwI'mey kicking
around.<br><br>

<dd>I would take all of the frequencies that have been tossed out, and
do<br>

<dd>a bunch of math to get a more averaged frequency set.<br>

<dd>This way we're not basing it all off of one text or one person's
writing style.<br><br>

<dd>I would then stare at those numbers and study the distributions
here:<br><br>

<dd><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions";>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions</a><br><br>

<dd>And try to find something comparable.<br><br>

<dd>As it's 7:30 in the morning, I'm going to get some sleep and I'll
let<br>

<dd>someone else stare at the numbers...<br><br>

<dd>~naHQun<br>

<dd>--<br>

<dd>~Michael Roney, Jr.<br>

<dd>Professional Klingon Translator<br>

<dd>webOS Developer<br><br>

<dd><a href="http://www.twitter.com/roneyii";>
http://www.twitter.com/roneyii</a><br>

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