CS 27

CS 27


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Posted by TheWall812 (Ranked 284 on Scrabble (Zone) Ladder) on June 28, 2001 at 22:28:51:

1st player... guy I know little about, other than his rating is 1012.
I open with VIG, leaving 3 cons and a blank. Kept drawing cons, until rack something like QONLRT? appeared, no Q dump available, gave up and exchanged. Now held EEIINT?, with only ultra cheap and defensively outrageous hooks for 7's. Took cheap 8 instead (INTERTIE thru a T). He was swimming in vowels in the meantime. Two turns later I play FUNNEST. After 10, 291-168. Ended 462-257.

2nd game, good new player. He opens with TIDAL. Holding AAEHOPR, I give APHORATE* a whirl, and he accepts it. I think I confused EPHORATE and APHOLATE together. Lexpert says there were no legitimate bingos playable. An easy pickup of EEGINNT gives me ENTERING. He has a blank at this point, can't find a bingo (tho someone later pointed one out to him) and he exchanges. I have AAEFIIT, and play FIAT/TENTERING for 24, hoping to draw a challenge. He isn't paying attention (he later admits he WOULD have challenged!), because his attention is on playing double double RASpING. 7th turn, he dumps QUIRE for 28, inviting SQUIRE hook to triple lane. I'm holding EEHPSW?, am too stupid to see nEPHEWS for about 118 tho I look for a while. I play WHEEPS for 66 (maybe with blank and 2 S's gone fairly early, the retained blank actually IS worth 50 some points... but I doubt it). He challenges, it's good. I dump -AGUE onto VAGUE hooking the A as COXA. He starts opening triples as I start drawing nonstop consonants. I have DEFaCING through an I, but he takes the TWS lane alongside. A couple turns later I draw the J... the only reasonable bingo lane is from an open A, and it would give me ADJURiNG for 118 or so... but he dumps ATONE there. Near the end of the game now, ATONE opens the top right TWS, and I play JUDGeR/JO/UN/DO for 64, leaving me KN to play out with. Found INK/MACK for 29... ends 490 to 300.

3rd game... not so good player...
Going 2nd with EINNRTU rack, I gratefully play INTURNED to her D for 80. Her 5th turn, she tries BRININGS*. A couple turns later, she gives NAUSEAE* a go.
This is where my stem ignorance caught up with me. Had ACEILNS rack... saw unplayable INLACES... saw SANICLE, was on the verge of playing it, but it suddenly LOOKED wrong. Maybe my head was inventing it from things like MANCIPLE, MANIPLE, etc... so I reconsidered (unnecessarily). Didn't see SCALENI either. Finally frustrated, I just dumped the C onto OX for 12 where it neither created nor interfered with any bingo lanes. The C was replaced by P... and I played SPLENIA (not even seeing SPANIEL, PINEALS, or ALPINES... and who knows how many 8's... though I remember wishing that C I'd just dumped was accessible for PELICANS). She challenged (odd, since she's a nurse). The N in SPLENIA served me again 2 turns later, with AEFIOR? rack. FARINOSE is perhaps the most common F-containing 8-letter bingo. After 10, I'm up 396-175. Turns of 33 and 37 follow, and now I'm looking at ZIITJA? or something. ZITI is dumped, with TAJ still available several places for 26 or 20. I now have AAHJTI?. A DWS over the Z is too tempting, and I take AZoTH for 48, allowing her the TWS with EKES/EH. The 26 point TAJ is left intact, I take it, ends up 578-256.

4th game, new player, absolute novice. Crammed this one in late, and rushed it. 372-233, even with my pointing out a few better plays for her... otherwise she wouldn't break 200. Passed up INDENTER/INTENDER/INTERNED. Not even going to hazard a guess why or how.


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