From Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis:There are 3,199,724 unique combinations of seven tiles that can be plucked from a virgin Scrabble bag of ninety-eight letters and two blanks. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you can draw only one of those combinations at a time. It could be AEINST? [?=blank tile] with its sixty-seven possible bingos. But it also could be IIUUUWW or any other rack of dross. Mathematicians have determined that the possibility of choosing an acceptable seven-letter word from a fresh bag is 12.63 percent, or just over one in eight.
3 comments:
I think you have not finished because you are busy playing eight Scrabble games simultaneously. But I could be wrong.
I think you are right.
And now I own the Signature Edition Scrabble pictured here. When are we going to break it in?
Scrabble, ick.
Yeah, I said it.
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