WYPS - Italian

Would it be possible to eliminate J, K, X, W, and Y from the Italian version of the game? These letters are not part of the Italian alphabet and are rarely used in Italian (usually in words of foreign origin).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_alphabet

Thank you

I agree... the game is becoming unplayable with all these letters. Every time one of these letters comes by it remains there until the end of the match, and it's not difficult to see Italian matches that end with 4-5 completely unused letters, hence playing as if the pool was made of 2-3 letters only!

Look at this match, for example:

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1299883&nmove=19

X, W and J are forbidden in Italian

Q and H are very rarely used

We are playing with 2 letters: R and U, the rest of 5 letters are just sitting there...

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zingarelli I change letters to: IIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOORRRRRRRTTTTTTNNNNNSSSSSCCCCLLLLMMMPPPUUUBBDDFFGGVVZ

I'm not sure what your link refers to.

There is a frequency table for all letters used in Italian here: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analisi_delle_frequenze .

As you can see J, K, X, W, and Y are not even listed.

I would definitely keep the Q and the H. The Q is rare but the Z is rarer. Also the Q appears in frequently used Italian words such as quarto (fourth), quadro (painting), quale (which), or quanto (how much). The H is actually more frequent than common letters such as B or F. It is used in normal words such as chiave (key), chiesa (church), or chi (who).

The problem with those two letters is that the Q needs the U and the H needs a C or a G.

I do not use frequency table but I calculate frequency according to words and letters in dictionary. For every letter I known its frequency and I can decide to use this word or not. In scrabble some languages are used all letters in alphabet - English, Slovak. In some languages (Italian, Portuguese, Polish) are abnormal letters removed.

I calculate number of stones with some letter as round(NumberOfStonesInGame x frequency). Because frequency of letter H is 0.539 % for 91 letters it is not enough. Letter Q has frequency only 0.08%. Letter Z more than 1.0 %.

Thanks!