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Scrabble® Scramble (Posted on 2006-02-03)

In a Scrabble® set there are 100 tiles, consisting of: E (12); A, I, (9); O, (8); N, R, T (6); D, L S, U (4); G (3); B, C, F, H, M, P, V, W, Y (2); J, K, Q, X, Z (1); and 2 blanks that can be used as wild cards to represent any letter.

A player is selecting tiles prior to making the first move.

If the first six tiles drawn are A, E, N, R, S, and T, what is the probability that the seventh tile will complete a 7 letter word?

Submitted by Vernon Lewis

Rating: 4.0000 (2 votes)

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Solution The combination of AENRST forms seven letter words with 18 other letters. They are (with number of tiles remaining) :- B2; C2; D4; E11; G3; H2; I9; K1; L4; M2; N5; O8; P2; R5; T5; U4; V2; W2. In addition there are 2 blanks that may be used as wild cards. Total 75. There are 94 tiles remaining 79.7872% of the tiles allow a 7 letter word to be formed

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2024-02-15 08:28:40
Other Sets.	Vernon Lewis	2006-02-03 19:27:57
I don't know, this keyboard sucks!!!!!!!	Hugo	2006-02-03 14:23:28
re: Any better set of letters? (suggestion)	Jer	2006-02-03 14:16:06
Any better set of letters?	Gamer	2006-02-03 14:03:01
from my word list -- computer solution	Charlie	2006-02-03 11:36:00
Possible solution	Jyqm	2006-02-03 11:17:11
Possible Words	Jils	2006-02-03 11:08:44

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