DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER BASED SCRABBLE GAME

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1              Background of the Project

1.2              Statement of the Problem

1.3              Objective of the Project

1.4              Project justification

1.5              Scope of the Project

1.6       Project Report Organization

1.7       Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1.1    Dictionary representation

2.1.2    Word generation algorithm

2.1.3    Game strategies

2.2              Theoretical Review

2.2.1    Review of Simulation Model

2.2.2    Entities

2.2.3    Activities and Events

2.2.4    Resources

2.2.5    Global Variables

2.2.6    Random Number Generator

2.2.7    The Calendar

2.2.8    System State Variables

2.2.9    Statistics Collectors

2.3       History of Games

2.4       Three Basic Types Of Game

2.4.1    Games for Young Children

2.4.2    Jump Rope Game

2.4.3    Games for Older Children

2.4.4    Games for adults

CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS

3.1              General Analysis of the System

3.2              Main Menu Design

3.3              Method of Data Collection

3.5              Data Flow Diagram

3.6              Limitations of the present system

3.7              Analysis of the Proposed System

CHAPTER FOUR

SYSTEM DESIGN

4.1              Objective of Design

4.1              Output Specification and Design

4.3              Input Specification and Design

4.3              File Design

4.4              File Design

4.4.1    Dictionary Table

4.4.2    Players Table

4.5              Project Modules

CHAPTER FIVE

SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING

5.1              System Requirements

5.1.1        Hardware Requirement

5.1.2        Software Requirement

5.2              System module Implementation

5.3.1    Test plan

5.3.2    Module Testing

5.3.3    Integration Test

5.4       Change over Procedures

5.4.1    Direct Changeover

5.4.2    Parallel Changeover

5.4.3    Phase Changeover

5.4.4    Pilot Changeover

5.5       Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation (BEME)

CHAPTER SIX

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

6.1              Summary

6.2        Conclusion

6.3        Recommendations

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A: Source code

APPENDIX B: User Guide

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1     Background of the Project

Scrabble is an old classic board game, with game rules that are not very complicated. Compared to other classic board games, such as Chess, there are more factors to take into consideration when making a move in Scrabble. Apart from anagramming and generating words, there are other crucial decisions to make. A player would probably find several legal moves in one round, and then would have to decide which one to place. Choosing the move that generates the highest score is not always the ideal way to go. It could be that making such a move would create a situation in the next round where nothing could be done, or let the opponent score highly.

Making the choice of which move to use include many factors, and there are several different techniques and strategies one can follow to make the decision easier. Hitting the bonus squares can generate an extremely high score, hence one strategy is to try to always hit the bonus squares and prevent the opponent from doing the same. Another way of being successful is to prioritize using letters with high score, since they would not only generate a high total score to the player, but could also create difficult situations in the future if not used as soon as possible.

Scrabble game is a simple game played by four, three, two even one person. Scrabble game is also played with tiles and encountered on a special and well-designed board. The game can be played with a board disserted with a cross-like path. In between any of the two arms of the cross path is a center square calved out as a square box, which has a symbol of star.

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At the down side of this board, there is a device called a Rack where the tiles are been placed before they are picked. This rack can be any colour depending on the developer or the user, titles and the rack can have the same colour. This rack is occupied by seven tiles at a starting and can be change or shuffle when the need arises. Each player has a starting point (middle) where he/she will place the tiles when picked. This spot is of different colour as the box (others) and is called the starting point. Other features of the board include smaller square boxes that make up the steps on the path which each tile steps on as it enters the path to produce a word. There are double and tripple word squares on the board. In the double word lines or square if two tiles that will generate a meaning are placed there, the player will score a high mark likewise the tripple word square. There are tiles, which are used to call for placement, which determine how the score is been ranked on the score device. Some makes use of the standard set number, while some make use of only seven (7) depending on the players.

When the game is being played, the objective of each player is to navigate his tile on the path to achieve a meaningful word. And any player whose tiles finished first wins the games or any player that scores the highest point wins the game i.e. top score or best player. But in other hand, the player whose tiles remain after number-of- players have finish, come last and become the worst looser. Each player must abide by the rules and regulation of the game that will be specified in subsequent chapters.

1.2     Statement of the Problem

Because scrabble game is played manually, young people do not have much interest in it. But making it computer based will make young people to enjoy it.

1.3     Objective of the Project

The objective of this study is stated as following:

To make scrabble game join the most other games in computer “world”

To handle cheating in scrabble game and to standardize the game.

To simulate scrabble game using computer.

1.4    Project justification

This project is justified because making scrabble computer based enhances learning.

1.5     Scope of the Project

The scope of this project is to design a computer based scrabble game.

1.6 Project Report Organization

This    project   is     organized    into    six    chapters.   Chapter   one     is    the

Introduction, chapter two is the Literature Review, chapter three is the

Methodology and System Analysis, chapter four is the System Design,

chapter five is the System Implementation and Testing and chapter six is

the Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation.

1.7 Definition of terms

Anchor square: Vacant board square adjacent to a placed tile.

Bag: Tiles that have not been drawn by players.

BOR: Balance on rack player.

BS: Bonus square player.

Cross check set: Set of possible letters on an anchor square with regard to adjacent word going vertical from named square.

DAWG: Directed acyclic word graph.

HSW: High score word player.

Vowel ratio: Ratio describing how many of the total number of tiles are

vowels.

Game: game is any activity which is executed only for pleasure and without conscious purpose

Programming: The act of instructing a computer to do your bidding

Center star Square: This is a start square n the board that doubles the

word.

Database:      Organized store computerized data.

Entertainments: This is a condition that is considered favourable

Exchange: The act of taken and replacing.4