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The record book · 10,184 simulated games

The longest games, biggest turns, and strangest finishes.

The collection includes marathons, landslides, unlikely finishes, and one player who collected 34 tiles without ever opening. The rules engine reconstructed and verified each retained replay.

Curiosities, not strategy evidence.

These are deterministic extreme-value records from this simulation corpus. They explain what happened, not what will usually happen or what you should usually do.

01Corpus record · verified

77turns

The marathon

The longest verified game in the corpus kept finding one more legal move.

Game length
77 turns
Pool left
7
Result
Normal
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02Replay record · verified

24tiles

The great unload

One turn converted an enormous rack into a complete legal table and an immediate win.

This pilot retained detailed turn rows for a subset of games, so an unseen turn could have been larger. This is the strongest value with a complete verified replay.

Game length
69 turns
Pool left
6
Result
Normal
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03Corpus record · verified

34tiles

Never got through the door

A player accumulated the largest verified rack while never completing the initial meld.

Game length
77 turns
Pool left
7
Result
Normal
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04Corpus record · verified

73turn

The late arrival

The latest successful initial meld in the corpus arrived when the game was nearly over.

Game length
74 turns
Pool left
0
Result
Normal
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05Corpus record · verified

75turns

Nothing left to draw

The pool emptied and a complete circuit of passes ended the game with tiles still stranded.

Game length
75 turns
Pool left
0
Result
Blocked
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06Replay record · verified

46table changes

The table rewrite

The busiest verified turn broke apart and rebuilt more of the shared table than any other retained replay.

The full game rows contain a 49-table changes result, but its replay was not retained. This is the strongest value with a complete verified replay.

Game length
53 turns
Pool left
16
Result
Normal
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07Corpus record · verified

17turns

The sprint

The fastest verified finish wasted almost no time between the deal and the winning move.

Game length
17 turns
Pool left
43
Result
Normal
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08Corpus record · verified

289points

The landslide

The widest single-game scoring result turned the opponents' remaining racks into one huge total.

Game length
66 turns
Pool left
4
Result
Normal
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Method

How the record book is generated

The exporter scans completed experiment artifacts, ranks each category with deterministic tie-breaking, requires a retained replay, verifies it, and emits this website bundle. It flags any category where the numerical record lacks a replay. Future 100,000-game runs will retain every replay so one command can replace every record that has been broken.

Download the record book JSON

Built by Jerry Vaughan in Chicago.

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