How to create a game?

Two types of players:

• Human: may have a name (up to 6 characters long)
• Droid: stands for your smart-phone; his name reflects his skill, from Droid 1 (the weakest) to Droid 8 (the strongest)

Two types of games:

• Classic: from one to four Human or Droid players
• Duplicate: from one to four Human players (each player has the same letters and only the best combination is placed on the board)

Players may be created during game creation.
A player can be removed with a long clic on his name.

Important: to create a game, it is not sufficient to create players. You should also select at least one of them and clic on the green icon to confirm.

How to play?

go to next player
shuffle letters inside the rack or (long clic) pass (exchange letters if authorized)

Create a word by clicking or sliding letters horizontally in the rack.
Move a word by dragging it to the board.
Change the word orientation by dragging it through the right edge (switch to vertical) or through the top edge (switch to horizontal).

When a word is placed on the board, the score is displayed in green in the top right corner.
When this number is in yellow, it is the number of letters left in the bag.

When placing a word on special cells, some bonus applies:
double letter score
triple letter score
double word score
triple word score

When a player has validated a word (by clicking on ), the best solutions can be displayed (if specified in settings).
A yellow star appears in the top left corner, with the number of solutions whose score exceed the player's one. To see the best solution, click on the star. To see the next (previous) solution, slide the board to the left (right).

Endgame

A classic game is finished:

• when a player has no more letter (and the bag is empty)
• or when every player has passed twice in a row

A duplicate game is finished when there is no possible move (with the selected dictionary).

My Word Game is not Scrabble^®

Board, letter values and frequencies are not like the famous game.
The first player must start by placing its word at the center of the board, but this word has not its value mutiplied by 2!
If a player places all seven letters, the bonus is 49 points (7x7).
A player can change letters, even if there are less than 7 letters in the bag.

A word about dictionaries

English dictionary is a subset of the public domain YAWL dictionary. It contains about 170 000 words.

French dictionary comes from the Eliot Scrabble^® game. It contains about 300 000 words and is almost like the ODS (Officiel du Scrabble^®).

German dictionary comes from the Linux Suse distribution. It contains about 500 000 words.
Under GPL license, the dictionary is available here.

Spanish dictionary is available on the International Spanish-Scrabble Federation web site.

Some of these dictionaries are built from GPL/LGPL word lists. In order to comply with those licenses, source code to compile the dictionaries in the MWG format is available at this address: http://android-mwg.appspot.com/dictionary/gen.cpp.
GPL licence text is available here.

A word about definitions

Definitions are retrieved from Wiktionary (the free dictionary).
Be aware that some valid words are not (yet) defined in the Wiktionary. But they are valid!

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Note

I'm developing this app in my free time. I do not pretend creating an industrial application.
If you find a bug, please let me know which device you are using, and if possible, which version of Android.

And, if this game suits you, please, let a comment on the Market : it's encouraging!

Need help for translations

As you can see, my English is not good! (I'm french.) I hope it is understandable...

If you want to help me to translate the game in your language (including english), I can send you all the messages that may appear in the game.
Feel free to contact me for this purpose.

Thanks to Volker Siedler for the German translation and to Livio Ghisleni for all the ideas he gave me.