Since, being lazy, I only play 4x 4, I have no experience with 5x5, thus can only extrapolate.
Yeah, the 16/30's aren't uncommon with 700 word plus boards. When you start adding in the x, q, z, k, j, the number of available words begins to shrink. So you get a 16/35 word that sits found on a board that isn't recycled potentially for years.
Sometimes I wish that when a longest/best word of a certain magnitude is discovered, the board would be recycled. Knowing that the word is there, like seeing 16/33, immediately reduces the search parameters. You know what you're looking for. It's like having an obvious piece for the jigsaw puzzle--not much challenge to find.
But I'm a computer halfwit, so have no idea what annoying procedures are required to tweak such things. Probably more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah, the 16/30's aren't uncommon with 700 word plus boards. When you start adding in the x, q, z, k, j, the number of available words begins to shrink. So you get a 16/35 word that sits found on a board that isn't recycled potentially for years.
Sometimes I wish that when a longest/best word of a certain magnitude is discovered, the board would be recycled. Knowing that the word is there, like seeing 16/33, immediately reduces the search parameters. You know what you're looking for. It's like having an obvious piece for the jigsaw puzzle--not much challenge to find.
But I'm a computer halfwit, so have no idea what annoying procedures are required to tweak such things. Probably more trouble than it's worth.
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