WScrabble 1.10

Presentation

WScrabble is an automatic "robot" or "bot" designed to entertain an IRC chatroom by offering people to play to a Scrabble/Anagrams game.

Like in the Scrabble game or on TV, 10 letters are drawn randomly : Players must then compose the longest word possible using these letters.

The player who found the longest wins points, with a bonus if the word uses all letters. As in the WQuizz script, the bot stores the score of each players and can display a ranklist of the 3 or 10 best players of the week or the year.

Usage

WScrabble is not a mIRC script but a small standalone Windows program in console-mode. It is however highly-configurable, through the file "WScrabble.ini" which you will have to modify before first use.

That way, you will be able to change as you like :

IRC connection settings (including password)
colors and texts displayed
number of letters drawn
the dictionnary of valid words
the letters distribution (to alter the frequency of each letters)

Download

WScrabble 1.10 in US english
(includes TWL98 dictionnary: 169092 words, based on the Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary -OSPD-, used in tournaments in North America)
WScrabble 1.10 in UK english
(includes SOWPODS dictionnary: 216553 words, based on OSPD + Official Scrabble Words (Great-Britain), used in English Scrabble World Championships, and other tournaments around the world...)
WScrabble 1.10 in french
(includes ODS dictionnary: 364370 words, "L’Officiel du Scrabble", used in French Scrabble World Championships)
Sources of WScrabble 1.10 (Visual Studio project)

With all the program settings, WScrabble can easily be adapted to other languages.

And now, let the game begin !

Thanks to l'Internet Scrabble Club for the dictionnaries and thanks to Laurent Ovaert aka Melon aka L!OL!O for the idea

Have fun, and take a look to my other mIRC bots: WQuizz and LinkBot

See full versions history for more details