Successful fundraiser; site humming along

Thanks to all who contributed to the fund drive this year, and prior years, too. I wouldn’t have put so much work into maintaining and moving the site without faith in our community who have consistently supported the site for many years.

Let me know of any of your friends who missed the transition to ShuffleRack. I’m aware of Zeffly, who I’ve tried to assist, but no others so far. The forward for the old site should expire any day now, if not already.

I have not been informed of any issues since a few weeks ago when I cleared up the last bits I knew about. All it all, it went pretty darn well. It took a lot of of my spare time for quite a while, but I’ve recovered partly thanks to a couple hiking adventures in the mountains near Tucson and Tubac, Arizona, and just have my regular job wearing me out now 🙂

I received a few queries about a small change I made in the 2-player games using the “OWL” latest lexicon. This is the one used in North American club and tournament play, and the National Scrabble Association changed the official end of game scoring about ten years ago and I finally made the site score in the same way on both ChezMoi and Gladiators. For ordinary 2-player games using OWL, the player who goes out receives 2x the sum of opponent’s remaining tile scores. This only applies to 2-player games (which is all that’s played in clubs and tournaments). If no one goes out, then both players have an adjustment at end in which their own remaining tile score sum is deducted from their own score (as it was before, too).

To summarize the lexicons in use:

SOWPODS: CSW24.

OWL: 2023 word list update

OSPD: 2023 word list update

French: a few years old, I have not figured out how to update it for a while now. I think this is from about 2015.

Word reference I use is Zyzzyva, which I update every now and then.