Rachel King on Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:14:24 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: They Win!


> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:58:39PM -0400, Michael L Chalfant wrote:
> > > There are no 'z' characters in the Hebrew version, but there are more 
> > > than two zayin's.  I forget the point value though.
> > 
> > a zayin has a value of 7, independent of scrabble. 
> 
> I doubt that Hebrew Scrabble values take the numeric values of the hebrew
> alphabet.  If that were the case, any word with two Taf's would have at
> least 800 points, and there are way too many conjugated verbs that have
> two taf's out there to make this fair.

800?  A Taf should equal 32 alphabetically, right?  Are there "final"
letters in Hebrew scrabble? 

-Rachel 


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Rachel J. King
B.S.E., Computer Science & Engineering '99
Society of Women Engineers   *   Hexagon Senior Society
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