Andy "Mr. B" Bohnsack Takes Experts to School
1st Andy Bohnsack averaged 444 over five games, finishing at 4-1 +329. After being on the receiving end of a 500 game, losing to Thomas Reinke 320-515, he dished out two 500 games of his own, topping Peter Schmiedicke 518-384 and crushing Mary Becker 561-256. As if by magic, bingo-prone letters seemed to supernaturally will themselves onto Andy's rack, resulting in such plays as ETCHERS, ATROPIN, ESPRITS, and LIBELERS. And all those in just one game! His mystical two-tiles-at-a-time drawing technique is finally paying dividends.
2nd Charles Reinke went 3-1 +312 to get second place in the experts. His lone defeat was by one point, 388-389, to seasoned Scrabble veteran Mark Kenas. Like Andy, Charles also had a four-bingo game, this one coming against his brother Thomas: NONFOOD, DEAIRING, ISOGONE, and RAILERS were the bonus plays Charles unleashed in that fraternal fistfight, while Thomas managed DELATING and USAUNCES.
3rd Mark Kenas took third place honors by finishing 3-1 +300. He started off with two big games, 481-239 versus Mary Becker (playing OSTEOMA and SNORTIER <INTRORSE>) and 454-363 versus Peter Schmiedicke (finding RAISABLE and RETILES). Then the well of tiles ran dry, and he ended the night losing to Andy Bohnsack with a final of 358-392.
Honorable mention goes to Richard Lauder for also being 3-1, but with an inferior +200 spread. Richard played the word of the week, WOOMERAS, in the process of besting Lynda Finn 403-344. A woomera (or womera) is a device used to propel spears. Thomas Reinke also played two word-of-the-week candidates with SAVORILY (in a savory manner, unpronounceable enough to draw a challenge) and ALKAHEST (the hypothetical universal solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST).
Harwinder Dowd Romps in Intermediates
1st Harwinder Dowd's lossless record propelled her to first place in the intermediate group, 2-0 +15 being her final tally. As her low spread indicates, she won two very close games: 299-289 against Aki Miura and 317-315 against Sharlie Miura. She found and played the word SMELTED in the latter game - those 50 extra points sure come in handy sometimes.
2nd Sharlie Miura went 1-1 +35. She scored an upset win over Helen Flores, 347-310. Sharlie is now 4-4 against Helen in games played since 2011.
| Intermediates | |
| Harwinder Dowd | 2-0 +15 |
| Sharlie Miura | 1-1 +35 |
| Aki Miura | 0-2 -128 |
| Sue Goldstein | 0-2 -134 |
| Bingos | ||
| Andy Bohnsack | 11 | INFLAMED ETCHERS ATROPIN ESPRITS LIBELERS TESSERAE TALLEST MIGRATED SUITING REPEATED CHEWIEST |
| Charles Reinke | 9 | DISRUPT BORNEOLS INSANEST NONFOOD DEAIRING ISOGONE RAILERS RADIANS DEALATES |
| Richard Lauder | 9 | DIETARY WOOMERAS MOUTHING ASSWAGE AEOLIAN FEROCITY STATURES BUTTERED penites |
| Thomas Reinke | 9 | FRONTIER SPARKIER SAVORILY ALKAHEST TREADLER DELATING USAUNCES NEGATED UNGOTTEN |
| Peter Schmiedicke | 8 | LASHING BRAINILY TANDOORI PILSNER COALPITS CORDAGES ENCRUSTS proteine |
| Mark Kenas | 7 | OSTEOMA RAISABLE RETILES REWARMS STICKLE ALEXINES snortier |
| Lynda Finn | 6 | SINGLETS UNITIZES NATURES REVISED ANESTRI DENTILS |
| Betty Hasselkus | 3 | WRONGED FRUITED FOISTING |
| Harwinder Dowd | 1 | SMELTED |
| Helen Flores | 1 | HOOTING |
| Sue Goldstein | 1 | BELIEVED |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High T | Richard Lauder | DIETARY | |
| Low Y | Lynda Finn | ||
| High P | Peter Schmiedicke | COALPITS | |
| Low P | Helen Flores | ||
| High Games | |
| 561 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 532 | Peter Schmiedicke |
| 519 | Charles Reinke |
| 518 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 515 | Thomas Reinke |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2.25 | Charles Reinke |
| 2.25 | Richard Lauder |
| 2.2 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 2 | Peter Schmiedicke |
| 1.8 | Thomas Reinke |
| High Averages | |
| 445 | Charles Reinke |
| 444 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 430 | Peter Schmiedicke |
| 421 | Richard Lauder |
| 421 | Mark Kenas |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 301 | Harwinder Dowd |
| 314 | Sharlie Miura |
| 340 | Aki Miura |
| 346 | Mark Kenas |
| 346 | Lynda Finn |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 377 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 303 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 391 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 431 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 322 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 0 |
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Wednesday, January 22:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
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