Stats for November 13, 2013

Lessons Learned: If You're Playing Andy Bohnsack, You Might As Well Just Give Up

1st Andy Bohnsack was the only player not to experience the crushing, chest-constricting agony of loss, going 4-0 +396.  Three of his winning scores were rather pedestrian by his standards: 442, 442, and 408.  The fourth was anything but pedestrian, a 574-329 bomb dropped on the unwitting Bryan Benwitz.  Bryan actually outbingoed Andy, playing three bingos (AERATION, AMNIOTE, and CALORIES) to Andy's two (GREEDIER and ATTRITS).  The vast gulf in scores can be chalked up to a) Multiple 60+ point power-tile plays and b) the fact that GREEDIER was a triple-triple.

2nd Charles Reinke went 3-1 +428, a spread large enough to beat out three others who also went 3-1.  He had three bingos in each of his three wins, but only got two in his 405-442 loss versus gold-medal-winner Andy Bohnsack.  Two of his wins could be classified as blowouts: 483-309 against Lynda Finn and 509-287 against Matt Rust.   INSIDERS, PATINAE, and ENDOSTEA were played in the former while COINFER (v. to infer jointly, or a noun meaning "a misspelling of CONIFER"), BEELINES, and EPHORAL (adj. pertaining to an ephor, an ancient Greek magistrate) were played in the latter.

3rd Richard Lauder's 3-1 +306 record was impressive enough to garner third place honors.  In a shrewd move that only a veteran Scrabbler could pull off, Richard cleverly conserved all of his luck for the last game of the night: his first three games were all under the 400-point threshhold, but his last game was a whopping 569 against Helen Flores.  In that game, Richard played a dizzying five bingos, showing off decades of word study: SATINETS, EPIDOTES, GENEROUS, BROODER, and CEILAGE.  Helen got down INSULTER, bringing the total amount of bingos in the game to six.

The two other 3-1 players were Chris Vergeront and Thomas Reinke.  Chris and Charles shared bingo king honors with 11 each, while Thomas played the word of the week, VOLPLANE (v. to glide in an airplane). 

Harwinder Dowd Learns the Importance of Spread

1st Harwinder Dowd claimed first place by only 26 spread points, going 1-1 +12.  Her win came against June Scott, 371-313.

2nd Dave Gilligan also learned the importance of spread, finishing with a final record of 1-1 -14.  He earned his first win at club by beating Harwinder Dowd 373-327, playing the word SPOOLER along the way.  SPOOLER has three anagrams: LOOPERS, POOLERS, and RESPOOL.

For the second straight week, a new player made an appearance at our club.  Abhishek Anurag played in the expert division, and while he didn't win a game, he got two nice bingos: NUTTERS and SLOVENLY. 

 



Bingos
Charles Reinke11INSIDERS PATINAE ENDOSTEA DECURION DEFIERS UNORNATE AMIDINES MATERIEL COINFER BEELINES EPHORAL
Chris Vergeront11MISTAKEN EERIEST HEREINTO CLEANEST REENLIST COINERS SALTING LUCKIEST INSHORE AMENTIA unbagged
Richard Lauder10CLATTERS STRANGE TARDIES SEALANT SATINET GENEROUS EPIDOTES BROODER ionomes ceilage
Andy Bohnsack7GREEDIER ATTRITS WREATHS HELVING BRACELET SOOTIER PROTEAS
Peter Schmiedicke7SEISING CASHING EMAILED ALEURONE INCASED VISCERAL strifed
Thomas Reinke6OUTSNORE SCORNER REEDITED VOLPLANE OATLIKE COZENAGE
Lynda Finn6ISOLATED HOODIEST VACATES TONIEST MOUSSED EROTICA
Susan Vergeront5SATIATE SCORNED STATURES DEBTORS SERIATE
Helen Flores5RIDDLES ATONIES REBIRTHS INSULTER outpegs
Bryan Benwitz5AERATION AMNIOTE CALORIES TALLIES INVOLVED
Barb Besadny4TASTIEST MOLDIER SORTERS SWILLER
Mary Becker4LIMITER DEAREST SOAPIER SEAMIEST
Matt Rust3LEADERS STINGIER OUTSIDE
Abhishek Anurag2SLOVENLY NUTTERS
Betty Hasselkus2FOUNDER TOWARDS
Harwinder Dowd1PLASHES
Dave Gilligan1SPOOLER

High Averages
467Andy Bohnsack
457Charles Reinke
434Chris Vergeront
415Thomas Reinke
414Richard Lauder

Low Opponent Averages
338Richard Lauder
343Harwinder Dowd
347Mary Becker
350Charles Reinke
354Peter Schmiedicke

Session Averages
Avg. Game Score379
Avg. Intermediate Score322
Avg. Expert Score384
Avg. Winning Score423
Avg. Losing Score334
Avg. Bingo Score0

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