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- ↑ https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/a-computer-program-wins-its-first-scrabble-tournament/2800 A Computer Program Wins Its First Scrabble Tournament (subscription required)
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- ↑ "cross-tables.com". www.cross-tables.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
