"Your score is 92.14, higher than 98.29% of the people who have completed this task" Unfortunately "membrane" and "parameter" showed some correlation, as did "codex" and "shard" - but "enticement", "glacier", and "bunion" were pretty independent.
Can you provide a link to that study? I can't believe that a 16th century person could have only 14 living male relatives - unless "relative" is defined very narrowly.
The pic you chose is lovely and appropriate, but the gallery at Kuriositas is filled with images oversaturated for emphasis. Almost literally "gilding the lily." Sad that people do this.
Although the product's website declares "policing just got safer," I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that these will also wind up in the hands of criminals, dissidents, and other malefactors.
That would explain it. I just checked, and the only language in which R = 8 pts is Pinyin, but the others don't match up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions So apparently the artist didn't want a copyright issue with Hasbro/Mattel.
Sometimes the logistics requires that the towpath move from one side of the canal to the other - swampy ground, rocky outcrop, buildings etc. In that situation going under a larger bridge doesn't solve the problem.
Unfortunately "membrane" and "parameter" showed some correlation, as did "codex" and "shard" - but "enticement", "glacier", and "bunion" were pretty independent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
So apparently the artist didn't want a copyright issue with Hasbro/Mattel.