1st Charles Reinke secured first place in the nightly standings with a comfortable two-game lead over his next-closest competitor, finishing at 5-0 +464. He played four bingos (VARMENTS, RETINOID, SOLACED, and PEARLIES) in what was otherwise a closely-contested game against Thomas Reinke, who played SINUATED and DIAGNOSE. The final tally in that one was 461-453 in Charles' favor. Charles' bingo output would only go lower from that point forward, but he continued his winning ways, including a 485-273 win over Helen Flores. Helen got down a nice find of VASTIEST, while Charles had DOVECOT and WANGUNS. WANGUN is a Native American word for a chest of supplies at a labor camp, but what Charles was most concerned with was the fact that it scored him 78 points.

2nd Thomas Reinke went 3-2 +352, losing two games to his brother but winning the rest. Surprisingly, his highest score of the evening was in the game described above, which he lost 453-461. The other encounter against Charles also ended unfavorably for Thomas, the final score being 437-468 despite Thomas' finds of TRUEBORN and GOONDAS. However, a big win against Richard Lauder, 427-335, ensured that Thomas didn't lose too much ground in the yearly standings. His bingos there were BIGUINE and the always-useful AIRIEST. Fun fact: AIRIEST has now been played 37 times at our club since modern recordkeeping began in 2011. The only bingo played more often is ETESIAN, played forty times. EASIEST and ATONIES are the other two to have been played more than thirty times.