Are We Even Surprised that Thomas Reinke Went Undefeated?
1st Thomas Reinke easily toppled all opponents who dared to stand in his way, finishing with a dominant 5-0 +588 record. All of his games were successes, but the two greatest successes happened simultaneously as he defeated both Buffy Hogan and Dennis Lloyd in a two-on-one match that probably should have been expanded to four-on-one just to make things more fair. A 479-330 win over buffy saw Thomas get down MANDORLA, CRATONS, and SNAILED; that performance was echoed in a 496-274 victory against Dennis wherein Thomas played SCALENI, KERNITES, and WAGONER as his bingos. If one could find a flaw in Thomas' immaculate show of Scrabble supremacy, it would be that his eighteen-game streak of scoring over 400 was broken when he narrowly bested his brother Charles, 341-330. The unusually low-scoring game also broke Charles' streak of twelve such games. Each twin was allowed one and only one bingo: REJOICES for Charles, TONLETS for Thomas.
2nd Dave Kinzer enjoyed easily the best night of his currently short Scrabble career, playing three games without experiencing the disappointment of a loss and averaging 408 points per game while doing it. However, the entire night was almost derailed in the first round when Dave escaped with an uncomfortably close 387-386 victory versus Mary Becker. It was the only game where Dave went without a bingo, and Mary's GROWTHS for 85 points was almost too much to overcome. This close win was followed by a win with a significantly larger cushion, 423-295 against Sue Goldstein. Dave was aided by a high-scoring bingo of TALKERS for 83. To round out his night of perfection, Dave bested Susan Vergeront 415-328, thanks in part to a nice find of GENTEEL. Then, having nothing left to prove, Dave vanished into the night without giving another player a (probably futile) chance to disrupt his perfect record.
3rd Aaron Bader nudged up his roughly 66% winning percentage on the year with a 3-1 +270 record. He played the highest-scoring bingo of the night, a 116-point WASHUPS, in a 457-273 win against Gail Salm. When your bingos score that much, it's okay if that's the only one you get in the game. His most closely-fought contest (although it wasn't really all that close) came against Joe Horowitz, 451-386. Again, Aaron got only one bingo (ENCODES), but scored enough points in other ways to negate Joe's ARRESTER and GUITARS. Paradoxically, it was one of Aaron's two-bingo games that he lost: a matchup against Thomas Reinke ended unfavorably for Aaron, 486-349, despite his M-themed bingos of MORENESS and METRIST. Thomas had TADPOLE and REJOICED in response. The lifetime series between the two now stands at 13 wins for Thomas, 11 for Aaron.
Roughly a year after we started playing with the updated dictionary, three new bingos were played: TRANNIE (Charles), MANDORLA (Thomas), and RADIOES (Lynda). In the category of utterly pointless minutia, there were four bingos played containing a J after only three such bingos were played in the entire month of February.
| Intermediates |
| Bingos | ||
| Andy Bohnsack | 12 | MURIATED EMETINS ROSEATE TORSADE LACIEST NIELLOED RESISTED TOILING ULTRARED STAPLING NUMERALS DERELICT |
| Thomas Reinke | 11 | FLAMINES TOILWORN MANDORLA CRATONS SNAILED SCALENI KERNITES WAGONER TADPOLE REJOICED TONLETS |
| Charles Reinke | 11 | LAMENTER NONSUIT EUGENICS MELODIA MONEYED STRATEGY ENROLLED PROLANS ELUSIVE TRANNIE REJOICES |
| Aaron Bader | 6 | WASHUPS ENCODES MORENESS METRIST SEQUOIA BARROWS |
| Bryan Benwitz | 6 | NOTATES GAOLERS EGALITE IVORIES ADMIRES UNSEALED |
| Gail Salm | 6 | SILTIER VERSION SLAVING STAINER ENSILED SOFTIES |
| Joe Horowitz | 6 | ELIDING CONIFERS ARRESTER GUITARS SULTANS SEATING |
| Lynda Finn | 6 | WIRIEST RADIOES DEMEANED ESTIVAL ANTIGEN hemetins |
| Dennis Lloyd | 5 | REJOINS TARNISH EMERGES VANTAGES INSERTED |
| Susan Vergeront | 5 | SPORTING RENAMED SNOOTIER INHALES SCOURER |
| Helen Flores | 3 | JOLTIER SPOONED NUTRIAS |
| Dave Gilligan | 3 | REUSING PILSNER DEXTRINS |
| David Kinzer | 2 | TALKERS GENTEEL |
| Buffy Hogan | 2 | OUTSAIL HOLLERED |
| Barb Besadny | 2 | STOGIES TINIEST |
| Sue Goldstein | 1 | BRUSHED |
| Mary Becker | 1 | GROWTHS |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High G | Mary Becker | ||
| Low E | Dave Gilligan | ||
| High A | Lynda Finn | ||
| Low N | Gail Salm | ||
| High Games | |
| 561 | Charles Reinke |
| 520 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 518 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 499 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 496 | Thomas Reinke |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2.4 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 2.2 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2.2 | Charles Reinke |
| 1.67 | Susan Vergeront |
| 1.5 | Aaron Bader |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 85 | Mary Becker |
| 85 | Aaron Bader |
| 82 | Thomas Reinke |
| 81 | Dennis Lloyd |
| 81 | Buffy Hogan |
| High Averages | |
| 441 | Thomas Reinke |
| 435 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 432 | Charles Reinke |
| 430 | Aaron Bader |
| 408 | David Kinzer |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 324 | Thomas Reinke |
| 334 | Charles Reinke |
| 336 | David Kinzer |
| 353 | Susan Vergeront |
| 362 | Aaron Bader |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 116 | WASHUPS | Aaron Bader |
| 100 | REJOINS | Dennis Lloyd |
| 96 | CRATONS | Thomas Reinke |
| 95 | TOILWORN | Thomas Reinke |
| 95 | SEQUOIA | Aaron Bader |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 383 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 383 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 440 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 325 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 76 |
Wednesday, November 19:
Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games
Wednesday, November 26:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, December 3:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, December 10:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
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