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Comment on CheckWord by Mick West

Mick West — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:55:27 +0000

Yes it will, very nice wildcard and pattern matching. You’ll like it.

Comment on CheckWord by Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:48:34 +0000

That sounds great! I just had a few apps auto-inform me of an updated version, so hopefully Checkwords 1.1 gets upped onto the App Store soon as well!

Just a quick question… will the 1.1 version have wildcard support?

Comment on CheckWord by Mick West

Mick West — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:51 +0000

The anagramming and word generation is already done in the version 1.1 update, I just need to get it approved by Apple and up on the App Store. They are having a few technical glitches in getting updates out there. Hopefully it will be out in a week or two.

It’s going to stay free as well.

Comment on CheckWord by Chris

Chris — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:46:13 +0000

This is a great program!

Is there any chance you’d incorporate the anagramming feature that’s been mentioned above? That would make this the ultimate portable Scrabble companion and I think a lot of iPhone/iPod touch users that play Scrabble would use this. I would certainly pay for this if it had a full anagrammer incorporated (like the lampwords program for Palm, or Lexpert).

Thanks!

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ent — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:02:32 +0000

Let me recommend this cool tool: MyEntunnel to avoid having to maintain a terminal window opened.

Congratulations Mick for this interesting blog.

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Comment on CheckWord by Mick West

Mick West — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:26:44 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions Lee, I’ll definitely do the first one - great idea!

Comment on CheckWord by Lee Rimar

Lee Rimar — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:25:28 +0000

Oh, if anyone want’s to try that scorecard mentioned in my last note, here are some of the less than intuitive instructions:

- Touch the player name captions to customize them.

- Enter scores on the keypad, numbers appear in the top field.

- Touch the number field UNDER each player name to award them the score.

A running tape shows up beneath the keypad, you can flick down to review it.

Comment on CheckWord by Lee Rimar

Lee Rimar — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:22:39 +0000

This is SO much better than my own webapp effort.

Suggestions:

1) When judging plays, allow multiple entries separated by spaces - then report the whole play as acceptable or unacceptable. Do not indicate which words (if any) failed. This is closer to how live tournaments are judged.

2) Word find and anagramming modes would be nice.

3) I would also like to see a companion “scorecard” app. I did my own web-app version, it works but it’s ugly.

ScoreCard

This is a Scrabble-specific scorecard app - in addition to keeping score the keypad has buttons to open Judge and Wordfind pages — framing content from a2zwordfinder.com :(

I’d be happy if someone else liked this idea and could do a nicer looking job of it :)