Eliot
Free Scrabble game
Eliot is an open source Scrabble game, freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.
This license statement covers Eliot's software. For dictionary word lists, website artwork, and referenced papers, check the reuse terms with their respective sources.
Eliot offers four different game modes:
The classic mode (called Free game in Eliot) is the standard one, ideal for having fun with your friends or family. The players take turns playing on the board, each with his own rack.
In the duplicate mode, all the players are faced with the same board and letters at the same time. It is mainly used in clubs and competitions since it takes away the chance (and tactics) component(s) of the game.
The training mode allows you to play alone and improve at duplicate. It gives more freedom than the multiplayer modes.
The arbitration mode lets you arbitrate very efficiently a duplicate game, possibly with a large number of players.
Eliot also provides many tools for advanced search such as the following:
- Search for the best move on a given board and rack. This search is almost instantaneous!
- Search for the possible connections, "Benjamins" (addition of three letters at the beginning of a previous word), or for all the words that can be composed with the letters of the rack.
- You can also use regular expressions to search in the dictionary.