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My Kingdom for an I

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After dinner tonight, Matthew, Claire, and I played a game of Scrabble.

For the record, I am not good at Scrabble. Yes, I can find words easily, I can often make 5 or 6 letter words. What I can't do is find words that are strategically good or positions for the words I do make or calculate the statistically feasibility of my getting that ONE MORE LETTER I NEED to make a 7 letter word.

I just like to make words from letters. The License Plate Torture game CLEARLY shows this.

In my effort of saying yes to social activities with my friends, even when I what I really want to do is hermit with a book or laptop, despite my clear Scrabble handicap, I said yes to this game.

And managed these opening tiles:

I nearly forgot there was an X, with this brilliant set of tiles.

My kingdom for an I.

Scrabble letter points

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PHP array of my scrabble to letter points.

$config['letterpoints'] =
    array('A' => 1,
          'B' => 4,
          'C' => 4,
          'D' => 2,
          'E' => 1,
          'F' => 3,
          'G' => 2,
          'H' => 3,
          'I' => 1,
          'J' => 10,
          'K' => 4,
          'L' => 2,
          'M' => 4,
          'N' => 2,
          'O' => 1,
          'P' => 2,
          'Q' => 10,
          'R' => 2,
          'S' => 1,
          'T' => 1,
          'U' => 2,
          'V' => 5,
          'W' => 4,
          'X' => 8,
          'Y' => 4,
          'Z' => 10,
          ' ' => 0);