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Letters of note
Pleased by the, errrm, feedback about our coverage of research on the comparative mortality rates of chess pieces (17 August), we turn to what over-engineered computer modelling can tell us about Scrabble, the game that has been both delighting players and igniting lexicographical arguments since 1938.
Feedback can’t be alone in finding that one of the joys of the game lies in making up words and swearing blind they are in the dictionary, just not that dictionary. Also contentious, however, is whether the values given to individual Scrabble…
