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Asked: 2026-05-27T14:08:26+00:00

Is there an algorithm to initialize the tiles on a scrabble board rather than

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Is there an algorithm to initialize the tiles on a scrabble board rather than manually laying them out like so:

board[0][3]->setType(ScrabbleTile::TripleWord);
board[0][6]->setType(ScrabbleTile::TripleLetter);
board[0][8]->setType(ScrabbleTile::TripleLetter);
board[0][11]->setType(ScrabbleTile::TripleWord);
...

It looks like there may be a pattern by looking at the board but it’s not immediately obvious to me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A Scrabble board is symmetric about both the horizontal and vertical centre lines. Therefore you could get some efficiency by setting up a quarter of the board, then flipping that to end up with half a board, then flipping that again to get the whole board.

    Edit: It’s also symmetric about the diagonals, so you should be able to seed the board from a small triangle and replicate it from there.

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