WHAT – Wolfberg’s Helpful Anagramming Tool
The PC-based program for personal and club use. Simple to use and very powerful. Great for common requests.
WHAT has extensive documentation, including tutorials and examples.
Lexicons: WJ3, WJ2, OWL2, OSPD4, TWL98, OSPD3, Collins 2007, French ODS5, Spanish FISE2009, Collins2012, Collins2015
After 10 years of charging for this program, it is now available for free downloading, and support is offered at the discretion of the author. It is not yet available for hand-held devices.
Use typed WHAT commands or a point-and-click interface to build commands
· Make postmortem queries; get challenge rulings; record challenged words; NASPA-approved for adjudicating OWL2 challenges in tourneys
· WHAT does single- and double-word anagramming, pattern matching, anagram steals with
or without rearrangement, blanagrams, etc.
· Do complex finds, such as word reversals, longest words with no repeated letters, highest-scoring opening plays, and lots more
· Enter racks and see many results; ask WHAT for small hints
· WHAT also does query filtering and can present the output by various criteria, such as word lengths, scores, probabilities, hooks, number of anagrams, etc.
· Sort based on single or multiple criteria; arrange words in rows or columns
· Create and manage customized flashcards; present sequentially or randomly
· WHAT can quiz you with random racks, or increase the likelihood of racks with answers; specify a canonical ordering for rack presentation
· Export/import word lists and other data; WHAT can show you imported definitions
· Make and print study lists which may include anagrams, hooks, “unhooks”, etc.
· New with Version 2: Set up tiles on a Scrabble® or Super Scrabble® board and output the board in a few formats Find all the plays on a board from a given rack. Record and playback games. Postmortem games.
· Solve Big Boggle (5 x 5) grids; produce random grids; use WHAT‘s game timer
· Play the Wordsmith Game, which old TIVO DVRs had, and solve for these games.
· And more, and more – flip this sheet to see the Common Queries Reference
WHAT is the best anagramming tool for Scrabble® players!
For more info visit http://what.wolfberg.net or e-mail Mike Wolfberg at .