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The game is especially interesting to implement because it can be broken down into two phases that are, from a computer's perspective, fundamentally different. The first lasts from the beginning of the game up until the last tile in the bag is drawn. During this phase, it is not known what the other players' tiles are, and the game has an element of [[randomness]]. However, when the last tile is drawn and the bag is empty, the computer can deduce from the overall letter distribution what letters must be on the other players' racks. In particular, when playing against a single opponent, the computer knows exactly the tiles on your rack and thus what your possible moves are for the rest of the game.

The best -known Scrabble AI player is [[Maven (Scrabble)|Maven]], created by [[Brian Sheppard]]. The official Scrabble computer game in North America uses a version of Maven as its artificial intelligence and is released by [[Atari]]. The official downloadable version which uses Maven was created by [[Funkitron]]. An open-source challenger to Maven has been created, called [http://www.quackle.org Quackle], which may soon surpass its talents. Outside of North America, the official Scrabble computer game is released by [[Ubisoft]].

==Computer versions==