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JW Insider
This was made from a Google Spreadsheet which will be shared between players so that a person with the link can edit it. (Will be sent by PM to whomever wants to play, and each updated screen can be displayed here after every valid play is made.) After any play, the player can tally up their points and will need to cross out the letters they used from the letter "pool."
The first two items are just an example. Let's say the first player plays QUETZAL in such a way that they get 120 points. (Double letter score on the Q and double word, and a 50 point bonus for using all their tiles.) Let's say the next player plays XI in such a way that the X counts for 16 (double letter) for the word AX, and 16 again for the word XI, and also makes LI, for a total of 34 points. And every letter used gets a strikethrough, or gets greyed out in the pool it was chosen from. After that play the game board would look like this:
Player 1
Player 2
QUETZAL
120
XI
36
Q
U
E
T
Z
A
L
X
I
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D
D
D
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
E
F
F
G
G
G
H
H
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
J
K
L
L
L
L
M
M
N
N
N
N
N
N
P
P
Q
R
R
R
R
R
R
S
S
S
S
T
T
T
T
T
T
U
U
U
U
V
V
W
W
X
Y
Y
Z
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Obviously, the first player has a great advantage in taking out the best letters. A final score will probably reflect this, and perhaps should be accounted for with a "handicap." Perhaps the handicap could be that the first play is split evenly among the two players, or a percentage of that first score is given to the player who goes second.
It's also possible in most browsers to actually just edit the game right here for each new play and then copy the final board now and then to the next post. You might need to check the scoring against an actual board, or look up the letter values on Google.
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