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Exotic dictionary - Scrabble with Roman numerals

2 points: M ×20, C ×20, X ×20
3 points: I ×19
5 points: D ×7, L ×7, V ×7

That is ideally played with 7 tiles in rack for obtaining within best results, but players can change this number freely enough depending upon their own wishes and depending upon their own tastes.

roman.py

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def Roman(n):
    cRomanString = ['M', 'CM', 'D', 'CD', 'C', 'XC', 'L', 'XL', 'X', 'IX', 'V', 'IV', 'I']
    cRomanValue = [1000, 900, 500, 400, 100, 90, 50, 40, 10, 9, 5, 4, 1]
    x = 0
    result = ''
    while n > 0:
        if n / cRomanValue[x] >= 1:
            result += cRomanString[x]
            n -= cRomanValue[x]
        else:
            x += 1
    return result
print "[Header]"
print "Version=100000"
print "Author=Raman Viswanathan <raman22feb1988@gmail.com>"
print "StandardCategory=Roman Numerals"
print "Licence=GNU General Public License, v3"
print "Comment=This dictionary contains all Roman Numerals from 1 to 3999"
print "[Replace]"
print "[Categories]"
print "[Words]"
for i in range(1, 4000):
    print Roman(i) + "=" + str(i)
 