While Congresspeople Shut Down Government, Charles Reinke Shuts Down Scrabble Players' Hopes and Dreams
1st Charles Reinke's new goal to average 500 over a club season is proceeding apace, as he averaged 501 points per game while going 5-0 +856. His "worst" game of the evening was a "mere" 442 points against Richard Lauder's 395. Richard gets a pass however, as he was mauled by several bears on his way back from a month-long west-coast excursion, and through the haze of a heavy dose of morphine managed to find three bingos: REFUTERS, TANISTS (n. TANIST, the heir to a Celtic chief), and SHALIER. Charles bingoed with MACULATE (v. to mark with spots) and DELTAIC, but such a paltry amount of bingos did little to warm the burnt heart-husk occupying his chest. What did warm his heart was his 629-338 victory versus Lynda Finn, wherein he played PTOMAIN, BEGUILED, ABSOLVED, and the nine TITRATING (through the first T and the N). Lynda put up a good fight by playing CAROTINS and the Word of the Week, JACONETS (n. JACONET, a cotton cloth).
2nd Mary Becker overcame a rough start to the club season and forced her way into the top three, finishing 3-1 +234. Most of her spread was generously donated by June Scott, who fell to Mary 202-431. Mary played BOONIES in that one. Only Betty Hasselkus was able to throw a wrench into the ever-turning cogs of the Mary Machine, defeating her 371-342 with the help of bingos LOUSIER and LITTERS.
3rd Lynda Finn's 3-1 +51 was good for the bronze medal. She was one agonizing point away from the mystical 600, scoring 599 (to Andy Bohnsack's 391) and getting three bingos: LINTERS, FESTOON, and the 149-point nine-timer COTERIES. That combined score of 990 is the highest combined score so far this year. Lynda also squeaked one out against Thomas Reinke, 389-387. It just goes to show: the player who scores more points will usually win.
4th(?!?!?!?!) Betty Hasselkus missed out on third place by eleven spread points, going 3-1 +40. For her trouble she gets to be mentioned in the writeup.
Sue Goldstein on Two-Person Intermediate Group: "If You're Not First, You're Last"
1st Sue Goldstein went 1-2 -97, using the bingo of LETTERS to outscore June Scott 344-272.
| Experts | |
| Charles Reinke | 5-0 +856 |
| Mary Becker | 3-1 +234 |
| Lynda Finn | 3-1 +51 |
| Betty Hasselkus | 3-1 +40 |
| Richard Lauder | 3-2 +80 |
| Shayla Dunn | 2-2 +63 |
| Andy Bohnsack | 2-2 +22 |
| Thomas Reinke | 1-3 +86 |
| Buffy Hogan | 1-3 -220 |
| Helen Flores | 1-3 -327 |
| Peter Schmiedicke | 0-2 -385 |
| Intermediates | |
| Sue Goldstein | 1-2 -97 |
| June Scott | 0-3 -403 |
| Name | Win% | W | L | T | Avg | Opp Avg | Bingos | Avg | Phonies | % | v2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experts | |||||||||||
| Charles Reinke | 75.7 | 160 | 51 | 1 | 447 | 370 | 463 | 2.18 | 7 | 1.5 | 13 |
| Thomas Reinke | 70.4 | 150 | 63 | 0 | 437 | 368 | 435 | 2.04 | 11 | 2.5 | 13 |
| Mark Kenas | 66 | 35 | 18 | 0 | 440 | 377 | 113 | 2.13 | 10 | 8.8 | 1 |
| Andy Bohnsack | 62.9 | 95 | 56 | 0 | 428 | 382 | 337 | 2.23 | 11 | 3.3 | 9 |
| Bryan Benwitz | 60.1 | 134 | 89 | 0 | 406 | 379 | 415 | 1.86 | 21 | 5.1 | 0 |
| Aaron Bader | 57.7 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 421 | 415 | 54 | 2.08 | 4 | 7.4 | 0 |
| Richard Lauder | 55.8 | 92 | 73 | 0 | 385 | 381 | 287 | 1.74 | 33 | 11.5 | 12 |
| Lynda Finn | 54.9 | 130 | 107 | 0 | 393 | 384 | 353 | 1.49 | 18 | 5.1 | 32 |
| Mary Becker | 40 | 77 | 116 | 2 | 360 | 386 | 141 | 0.72 | 9 | 6.4 | 7 |
| Helen Flores | 38 | 78 | 127 | 0 | 352 | 395 | 182 | 0.89 | 9 | 4.9 | 4 |
| Renato Umali | 36.4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 384 | 408 | 17 | 1.55 | 1 | 5.9 | 1 |
| Intermediates | |||||||||||
| Sue Goldstein | 54.4 | 67 | 56 | 1 | 326 | 328 | 37 | 0.3 | 3 | 8.1 | 0 |
| Charles Reinke | 12 | GRANULE MACULATE DELTAIC METERED STIRRUP PTOMAIN TITRATING BEGUILED ABSOLVED LINEATED NONEQUAL REMISING |
| Lynda Finn | 10 | COTERIES FESTOON LINTERS TORULAE ANTIRED SERINGA JACONETS CAROTINS HOISTING FILINGS |
| Richard Lauder | 9 | REFUTERS TANISTS SHALIER PATIENTS OUTREADS STAMPERS GLEETING MELODICA MORALES |
| Andy Bohnsack | 9 | ALIENAGE PAYMENT TOADIES UNLEVIED TRIABLE TRAVAILS HANGERS PUNCHIER SIGNALED |
| Thomas Reinke | 9 | REWRITER CONATIVE AGONIES HALOIDS PACIEST TAURINE AROUSED SENATOR BOATELS |
| Betty Hasselkus | 6 | RECLINE UNGLUES IMPULSE LOUSIER LITTERS SPAYING |
| Shayla Dunn | 5 | SWIRLIER PLUNGES EBONITE EVADERS STEERING |
| Helen Flores | 4 | SAUTOIR ARREARS DECAYING BLESSING |
| Buffy Hogan | 3 | FOOLISH SONATAS stormer |
| Mary Becker | 2 | BOONIES WINTERED |
| Sue Goldstein | 1 | LETTERS |
| Peter Schmiedicke | 1 | OUTDARE |
| 9-Apr: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 16-Apr: Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games | 23-Apr: Scrabble at Covenant Church | 30-Apr: Scrabble at Covenant Church |
