• DOI:10.1145/42411.42420
Corpus ID: 13740467

The world's fastest Scrabble program

@article{Appel1988TheWF,
  title={The world's fastest Scrabble program},
  author={Andrew W. Appel and Guy J. Jacobson},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={1988},
  volume={31},
  pages={572-578}
}

Andrew W. Appel, Guy J. Jacobson

Published 1988

Computer Science

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An efficient backtracking algorithm makes possible a very fast program to play the SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game. The efficiency is achieved by creating data structures before the backtracking search begins that serve both to focus the search and to make each step of the search fast.