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Screenshot of complete Greedy Words Game. |
Greedy Words is a single player word board game App for the iPhone where your opponent, Greedy, is all offense and no defense. He always plays the highest scoring word with no regard for defense. Since you can't surpass his vocabulary you have to rely on your superior strategy in order to win.
Compete Against Everyone
Greedy Words utilizes the Game Center to let you compare your game scores, round scores, and win totals with your friends as well as players from around the world.
Improve Your Skills
Playing Greedy Words you will learn and remember new words in the context of the game since Greedy, unlike a human player, is just as likely to play an obscure word as a commonly known word.
Greedy always plays the highest scoring word possible, and you get to see the tiles before the play. This will help you spot new ways to maximize your scoring.
Rules
A game consists of five rounds. In each round Greedy plays the first word and the human player plays the last word.
The human player and Greedy share a rack of 7 tiles.
Words are played on an 11 x 11 board using standard placement and scoring rules. 15 bonus points are awarded for plays using 6 tiles and 50 bonus points are awarded for plays using all 7 tiles.
The tiles are drawn with replacement using the following letter likelihoods:
A-9.0%, B-2.0%, C-2.0%, D-4.5%, 12.5%, F-2.0%, G-3.0%, H-3.0%, I-8.5%, J-1.0%, K-1.0%, L-4.0%, M-2.0%, N-5.5%, O-8.0%, P-2.0%, Q-1.0%, R-6.0%, S-4.5%, T-6.5%, U-4.0%, V-2.0%, W-2.0%, X-1.0%, Y-2.0%, Z-1.0%.
The letter values are:
A-1, B-2, C-6, D-2, E-1, F-4, G-4, H-4, I-1, J-11, K-6, L-2, M-4, N-2, O-1, P-4, Q-13, R-2, S-1, T-2, U-2, V-7, W-4, X-8, Y-4, Z-10.
