The most useful piece of software for Scrabble aficionados with a Palm PDA is LAMPWords. After game postmortems can be quickly and easily done.
eg what word(s) can be made from HISRAVE?
Input: HISRAVE, press button ANA, answer is ASHIVER#
(the # denotes OSWi only, so not available in North America)
What word can be made from TRANDLE? None. But what about combining with some eighth letter on the board?
Input: TRANDLE?, press button ANA, answers are ANTLERED, ARDENTLY,DENTURAL
What front hooks can go onto OWE?
Input: ?OWE, press button PAT, answers are HOWE, LOWE, YOWE
The anagram search is the most useful. Pattern search is useful for eg hooks.
The program can be used as a word judge.
The software is free, generously provided by Canadian Scrabble player, Paul Sidorsky. The database of allowable words has been carefully assembled by Scrabble enthusiasts James Cherry and MW Thelen.
Lampwords http://members.shaw.ca/lampwords/
