As a fan of tournament-play Scrabble I wanted to try a run of this game, but my dreams of a speedrun showing off crazy vocabulary for tons of points was dashed when I realized the best speedrun strat is to play no words at all.

Basically, four passes in a row ends the game immediately. Fortunately the dumb AI never seems to exchange tiles and will simply pass when it can't play anything. When the game ends, each player with remaining tiles gets the point total of those tiles subtracted from their score. In order for this strategy to work, I needed to wait until I got a game setup with 1) an opponent with an unplayable rack and 2) for that rack to be worth more points than mine. Amazingly I only needed to wait 2 frames for this exact situation to show up.

Noxxa: Judging.

Noxxa: The Vault rules state that board games are ineligible for the Vault. This movie falls in the same boat as the recent Othello submission. While Scrabble, unlike Othello, has an intrinsic element of randomness in the run, it still depends on terrible decision-making by the AI to work. The random aspect of the gameplay is not visibly pronounced in the run either, nor is this, as Nach put it with Othello, "a run which portrays TASing mastery over regular game playing", as neither player even successfully makes a move. As such, rejecting.

CoolHandMike: Re-judging due to Movie Rules allowing trivial games and board games making this an acceptable game choice.

CoolHandMike: This is optimized for the goal of completing a game as fast as possible. There are no triviality rules restricting this from being accepted, and board games are also allowed now. This submission uses the Novice difficulty to complete the game. The author uses rng manipulation so that the opponent has no tiles that can form words. The author passes on their turn each time, and in the final calculation whoever has the highest point loses. I tested out to see how common this was and I had to wait an additional 70-ish frames for the same situation to occur.

Accepting to Standard with goal of "Novice".

Good job!

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