Ultimate Scrabble battle: Grandmaster vs. AI! Game

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Ай бұрын

Hard to believe this series is over -- thank you all so much for your support and engagement! Be sure to tune in Wednesday for the recap video and announcement of the next series!
In this series, I'll be playing the AI-powered BestBot in 100 games of Scrabble! Who will prevail? Watch the videos to find out -- and hopefully pick up a few tips too!
BestBot is the upcoming ultimate Scrabble AI from Woogles.io, to be launched in 2024. For questions, please email woogles@woogles.io.
Want personalized help taking your game to the next level or a fun gift for a friend? Check out www.mackmeller.com/lessons! for more info or email me at mackmeller@gmail.com!

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@EmmsterGD Ай бұрын

Can’t believe I’m saying this for the last time this series. SPOILER BLOCKER COMMENT! It’s been a journey. I’ll be here for more series (pl) to block all those nasty spoilers ❤

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Can't believe it's over either -- thanks so much for all your dedicated spoilage blockage, and please keep it up going forward!!

@andrewbuck171 Ай бұрын

Appreciate all of these throughout the series. I got a few games ruined by spoilers but it happened rarely thanks to you. Some heroes don't wear capes.

@prodbymorii2058 Ай бұрын

Thank you for your service

@Ray_Ridley Ай бұрын

Thanks for keeping us entertained over the last 7 months or so with this great series. If the next one isn't going to be against BestBot, hope you'll consider a rematch sometime in the future.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words, and stay tuned for the announcement Wednesday!

@hankhees8622 Ай бұрын

Many others have said it already Mack, but I’ll also throw in my thanks for an entertaining and instructive series!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks very much Hank! Best of luck in Niagara this weekend, I see some big rating gains in your future :)

@AmaranthRBY Ай бұрын

Good to go out on a sick endgame, (e)W what a stunner. We don't need to talk about the rest of the game, or the series overall Excited for whatever you have in store next!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for all your support, really appreciate it!

@Alex64AS Ай бұрын

Win or lose, this has been an absolute blast to watch over the past half year and helped me get back into Scrabble. I’m so excited to see what excellent content you make moving forward!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words and support, really appreciate it! Stay tuned Wednesday for the big announcement :)

@33jtm33 Ай бұрын

I wanted to say that this series has been a fascinating contrast to the hastybot series, which I started watching partway through. Your accuracy is still incredibly good for a human, but this bot is good enough to claim every advantage and when luck is on its side it gets pretty painful! Looking forward to your next series, I love your channel, thank you!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind words and support, I really appreciate it! Stay tuned for the announcement of the next series tomorrow!

@NimbleRogue Ай бұрын

I found your channel halfway through your 100 hastybot series, and have been consistently watching you since. Sorry for the shitty luck through some of the games, but thanks for the incredible games, and great scrabble content. Also, I feel pretty satisfied that my win prediction was one game off.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your support, really appreciate it! And yeah it happens with the luck, I did draw pretty well against Hasty tho so can't complain too much :)

@abrasivepaste Ай бұрын

This has been so much fun to follow! It's consistently been the one series I always look forward to. Whenever I come home from a long days work and you upload an episode it's always what I put on to help me unwind. I never even knew competitive scrabble was a thing before I found your channel and started watching the hastybot series. So I guess my sister has you to blame for making her win rate plummet against me this last year or so 😆😆 Anyways I'm excited to see what videos you pull from the bag next!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Hahaha that's so awesome, I really appreciate your kind words and support!

@Joslinmeister Ай бұрын

Thanks for the wonderful series Mack! As much as I want to see a Best Bot series rematch, I think it may be worth to revisit another time. It will be nice to stop seeing the one-sided luck. Really looking forward to whatever you decide next!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Chase, really appreciate all your support! Stay tuned tomorrow for the announcement :)

@craiglarimer1173 26 күн бұрын

Thank you for the fantastic series. I learned to like your word when getting bad draw: “Yikes!”

@alexanderfrongillo5442 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot, Mack! These videos became an integral part of my daily routine.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, that makes me really happy to hear!

@tgdrape 29 күн бұрын

Great series Mack. I'm amazed at how well you did against a computer opponent that gets to see every move perfectly. I loved hearing your reasoning while playing. Thank you for sharing your gift!

@mackmeller 27 күн бұрын

Thanks so much Tom, really appreciate your kind words! Hope you'll be back for the rematch!

@labrador2818 Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed following this series and I'm excited for what's next. Keep up the great content!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate it!

@BigAsciiHappyStar Ай бұрын

Should have fished for ZEMSTVO at the start. Serves you right 🤣

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Hehe

@coolnath99 Ай бұрын

that was an epic journey. i was way off with my prediction. i was influenced by the way the start of the series was going. i have really enjoyed watching this series especially those great wins

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for all your support! Yeah I can't blame you at all with the prediction, you certainly weren't the only one and it sure was a rough start haha

@heyitsjustmejj Ай бұрын

Wow the final one. I found your channel around #25 ish, and it’s crazy to see it end. Excited for what comes next.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Yeah times flies when you're having fun! Appreciate your support, and stay tuned for the announcement Wednesday!

@stanloonaenft Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this series ❤🎉

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@Para20Site Ай бұрын

That (e)W setup by the bot was pretty sick. Kinda thing I see commentators go nuts over if it was a tournament game. Thanks for the series. It was fun to watch I only jumped in about halfway through. Can't wait to see what's next.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! And yeah that was pretty sick indeed, I hope I would've found it if the game was on the line/I had time but no guarantees, it's a toughie

@jahonasnapkins Ай бұрын

thanks so much for this series!! it was always such a nice thing to look forward to every other day. this ending almost feels poetic in a way😣 regardless- this series was so entertaining and can’t wait for the next one!!!!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much John, really appreciate all your support! Yeah was definitely reminiscent of the 4-game losing streak at the beginning, oh well... hopefully I'll get some revenge on whoever/whatever my next opponent is (stay tuned Wednesday to find out!)

@dailyinspiration8246 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the series and congratulations! You always make my day and even more so when you grasp the win against luckyBot. Will always be looking forward to your vids

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate your kind words and support!

@MisterMonopoli Ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this series, thanks for making it! From my novice perspective, your skills seem to be very well suited to go up against the cold, unfeeling machine. Do you think there are any other top players who would fair significantly better in the same format?

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! And fair question, I have to imagine Nigel would do a little better on average just because he's the GOAT, other top players I'd imagine would probably fare similarly to me but would be awesome to watch if one of them did a series too!

@squadxzo Ай бұрын

It's been so long I forgot about the prediction contest. I think I predicted you would win so I think I'm out of the running for sure. Looking forward to next series if I had to guess it would be blindfolded against hastybot or standard csw21 against hasty. Either way it's probably going to be dope so I look forward to it.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching, and stay tuned Wednesday for the announcement!

@phroney Ай бұрын

How much fun was this?! Thank you for doing it.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it! I had a ton of fun making the vids :)

@phroney Ай бұрын

@@mackmeller I would be interested in you doing a video about why you think the bot beat you. How was it better? Did you start to see any weaknesses you could exploit? ect.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

@@phroney I'll talk about this a little in tomorrow's vid!

@MosheSchorr Ай бұрын

+1 to everyone else here, Thank you so much for a great series! And i would love to see you play CSW :)

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your support, really appreciate it!

@Splax77 Ай бұрын

DEVISAL was pretty brutal and it would've taken some really good luck to recover from there, but it might have still been possible - hard to know for sure. In general though I've noticed you often fixate on fishing for bingos and just get outscored by the bot because you keep making 10-15 point plays and miss out on a lot of scoring potential. I would've cashed in the S early instead of holding on to it for half the game, it almost seems like a trap that loses its value the longer you hold it.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Yeah, that's definitely fair -- it's super hard to know when to just score or when there truly is a sense of urgency and you need to try to bingo ASAP

@stickman1695 Ай бұрын

Can't wait for game 200 😂 great series

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Haha thanks so much for watching!

@chrisessenhigh8849 Ай бұрын

Do you know about the odd board configurations which can be found in the Elise Scrabble Programme? Maybe worth a look.

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

I don't but I'll check it out!

@taylorbrewing Ай бұрын

Enjoyed every game!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, really appreciate it!

@AugustusMatthias Ай бұрын

Interesting fact about the series that I've just noticed after watching this video… BestBot won the first four and the last four games of the series consecutively (Games 1-4 and 97-100 were all won by BestBot).

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Haha I definitely noticed 😂... can't say I'm happy about it but is what it is!

@prodbymorii2058 Ай бұрын

Can't believe this series is over 😔. Hope the announcement is another series against BestBot!

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Yeah I know right, I can't believe it either -- stay tuned!

@iwersonsch5131 Ай бұрын

that was to be expected, TROOPER always misses the board

@andrewmilner-white9988 Ай бұрын

great series thank you! Of course the sample size is too small to prove much about relative ability. If we assume you are exactly the same standard as the bot (50/50), then there is still a 6.66% chance that the bot would win 58 games or more. Maybe that's what happened, it certainly seemed lucky. Is there any way to quantify and adjust for the luck factor?! (I think there is in poker)

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching! It's very hard to quantify exactly, since going based on a metric like blanks is an oversimplification (sure blanks help but timing of when you draw what tiles is often more important). I guess you could do something like what's your expected score next turn given your leave and what did you actually score, then if you scored more than expected you were lucky. This is also not entirely accurate though since it of course leaves out that you often sacrifice points for various reasons.

@Dashie- Ай бұрын

In bridge, what we do is we play the same dealt hands and compare how well we did vs others with the same cards. This isn’t possible in scrabble though, since not every player draws the same number of tiles through the game.

@Fexghadi Ай бұрын

So, my prediction was that you'd win 3 games for the bot's every 5 wins. You were one win away from getting a 3-to-4 record, which is definitely impressive. ~37% is common in probabilities (it's the limit of ((1-(1/n))^n), which determines the likelihood of something of probability 1/n NOT happening if you try it n times, in this case coming out with a positive record against the bot) so you still defied some odds, Mack! Any record under 37-63 would have been a bad omen for mankind against AI :P

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Ah yeah that would be 1/e, right? Take me back to my calculus days haha... in any case really appreciate your support!

@Fexghadi Ай бұрын

@@mackmeller That is indeed 1/e

@ogorangeduck Ай бұрын

Didn't the series just start!?

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Haha I'm afraid not, but glad you're here and I have another exciting series starting soon so be sure to tune in Wednesday for the announcement!

@AOOA926 Ай бұрын

22:12 I don’t see any reason besides having an s not tho play Mu(Z)JIK for 35

@mackmeller Ай бұрын

Yeah I mean the only drawback is of course burning the blank, it's a close call whether it's worth it

@nathanielsilver6752 Ай бұрын

You might consider transitioning to Collins, (as many American experts are doing), graduating from NASPA's diminishing pool of players.

@ronandance7365 Ай бұрын

You overp-prioritise bingo leaves. Score more per turn💪🏻

@anewfuture Ай бұрын

That is what I thought for a while, but he seems to know the entire dictionary(he almost never misses a bingo), so when a bingo is on his rack, he is probably going to see it. Knowing this, it makes sense that he leans towards bingo favorable racks.

@ronandance7365 Ай бұрын

@@anewfuture but even still. You need to score and leave perhaps one or two less letters, other than extremely strong racks

@iwersonsch5131 Ай бұрын

tones for the desperate A hook perhaps