Play some Scrabble to some nice relaxing MIDI music.
Developer Credits#
The in-game dictionary contains hidden developer credits and dedications. Searching for these terms will result in these definitions appearing:
Search Term |
Dev Message |
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brenda |
BRENDA TRACY: Waiting to be recognized, heading for the great escape. |
brian |
BRIAN SHEPPARD: programmer extraordinaire and creator of the Maven artificial intelligence engine |
feinberg |
FEINBERG JIM: Karting fool. Or is that fool karting? Special thanks to Allen "The Fudge Man", Matt, Marilyn and Ceaser Feinberg. Go Ernie! RIP Friskie. |
groegler |
GROEGLER CHRIS: Hello Mom, Dad, Bob, Shelley, Ryan and Jason. Heyyo Mara. Go Wallace and Gordon! |
ish |
ISH aka GREG POLENS: Son of Donald and Marian. Brother of Donna, Ed, Ken and Shades. Father of Kamin. |
marystewart |
MARYSTUART CHILDREZ: A very special person. Hey Mom! |
meckley |
MECKLEY JIM: What is that, a chicken? A hunka hunka burning love... |
traylor |
TRAYLOR MIKE: He who lives by the trail. Freya: Goddess of Love. Special thanks to the greatest parents in the world: Wilbur and Catherine Traylor. Hey Robo, Chirp and Spit (wherever you are). |
Scrabble V2.0 (1999) and Scrabble Complete (2002) removed all of these entries except "BRIAN" (and added its synonym "SHEPPARD").
Unused Text#
At 4A687 in the executable is some text for testing out a modem. It is repeated six times in a row.
This is a whole lot of junk to test this freeking modem crap.
And this is more and more flipping crap to test more of the freeking modem crap!!!!!!Word List#
The word list used is in "DAWG" format and contains 172,083 playable words with the following distribution:
Word Length |
Count |
|---|---|
2 |
97 |
3 |
969 |
4 |
3878 |
5 |
8597 |
6 |
15183 |
7 |
23049 |
8 |
28376 |
9 |
24748 |
10 |
20199 |
11 |
15418 |
12 |
11258 |
13 |
7768 |
14 |
5096 |
15 |
3177 |
16 |
1940 |
17 |
1127 |
18 |
596 |
19 |
327 |
20 |
160 |
21 |
62 |
22 |
31 |
23 |
13 |
24 |
9 |
25 |
2 |
26 |
0 |
27 |
2 |
28 |
1 |
Total |
172083 |
The longest word recognized is "ethylenediaminetetraacetates". As for short words, the count of 97 for 2-letters is a bit unusual, as "DA" was removed from the OSPD3 release and not re-added until OSPD5 (with a new definition). This indicates the source of the game's word list to be possibly OSPD2 (NWL), plus MWCD10 for words longer than 8 letters.
Note that a standard Scrabble board is only 15 tiles across, making any word longer than that literally unplayable.
Because the in-game dictionary has definitions for only 100,469 words, this makes 71,614 playable yet without a definition. All words with missing definitions have more than 8 letters (some common e.g. "zoologist"), but note that some words with a root shorter than 9 letters may be found in the root entry (e.g. "zoologies" has a definition under "zoology"). Again, this is likely because the supplemental "long list" does not have definitions, while the OSPD2 source for shorter words does have them.
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Handheld |
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Game Boy (Color) |
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Windows, Mac OS Classic |
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PlayStation 2 |
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Game Boy Advance |
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