Scrabble Tiles Desire Nothing More Than To Be Arranged Into Words; Charles Obliges
1st Charles Reinke followed up a successful weekend performance with a successful-er performance on Wednesday night, going 4-0 +460. He scored 476 in both of his opening two games, the first against Joe, the second against Lynda. Against Lynda, he got down two nice bingos, CABOTAGE and NITINOL (n. a nickel-titanium alloy). His third game versus Thomas was the usual bingo-fest: Charles got GUSHIER, MALARIAN, and JETBEADS (n. an ornamental shrub), while Thomas got LINNIES and ACARIDAN. Fun fact: MALARIAN and ACARIDAN have exactly the same probability of being drawn out of the bag! Fine, maybe that wasn't a very fun fact. Whatever. I thought it was cool. Anyway. In the final game, for the second week in a row, Charles faced Gail to determine who would earn first place. Last week it was Gail who came out on top; this week, Charles won decisively, 451-328.
2nd Thomas Reinke went 4-and-Charles +296, managing to maintain a slim lead on his brother in the yearly club standings. Pulling double duty in the first round, he beat Helen and Mary, despite getting out-bingoed 3-2 against Mary. Thomas played ERMINES (bonus multimedia section: if you search "Ermine in a tree" on YouTube, you will find a very cute video) and VEDALIAS (not to be confused with VIDALIAS), while Mary played PAROLING, TWISTERS, and FRUITIER. In the second game, Andy's early EQUATES used up all of his luck, while Thomas drew a bunch of bingos for a 472-329 win. After losing to Charles, he beat Richard in a low-scoring 361-302 contest. Only two bingos were played in that sad, horrible excuse for a Scrabble game: Richard played the ever-useful ANISOLE and Thomas got down PARKIEST (adj. chilly).
3rd Joe Horowitz went out (nearly) on top, going 3-1 +160 in his final night as a regular attendee at our club. He bingoed twice against Charles in the first game, with TURDINE (adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of thrushes) and WINTLES, and lost 377-476. Then, going against all preconceived notions about Scrabble, he bingoed only once in each of his next three games, but won them all! I can feel the paradigms shifting as I type. We all wish the best of luck to Joe at med school, but urge him to remember that Scrabble is to be made the first priority, always and forever, no matter what.
Mark played the word of the week, DUNGHEAP (n. self-explanatory). In other news, congratulations to Charles for winning division one at this weekend's tournament, Lynda for coming in second, and double congratulations to Darcy for dominating division three in undefeated fashion.
| Intermediates |
| Bingos | ||
| Thomas Reinke | 10 | KERATIN HANDIEST ERMINES VEDALIAS ANTENNAE IMPINGED URANIUMS LINNIES ACARIDAN PARKIEST |
| Mark Kenas | 10 | ENGINEER EGOTIST THIONINE OXALATED DUNGHEAP RESUMED STEEPEN SMOLDERS GRANDEST seelings |
| Charles Reinke | 9 | URBANIZE SERMONS CABOTAGE NITINOL GUSHIER MALARIAN JETBEADS NETWORK FLOTELS |
| Aaron Bader | 8 | INFESTER TANKINI NEUROTIC LUSTRATE pucelage nointer engores disenrols |
| Lynda Finn | 7 | EERIEST TSOURIS ANTINGS SOAKERS ENTREAT RELOOKED MASHIES |
| Mary Becker | 7 | PAROLING TWISTERS FRUITIER SORROWS ADORERS COUPLES entrail |
| Andy Bohnsack | 7 | UNIVERSE UNJOINED EQUATES TOLLING UTERINE ATELIER DEBITING |
| Gail Salm | 6 | GENTILES DELETING RECEPTS STEALING BRINIES ANODIZE |
| Dave Gilligan | 5 | EASIEST ALANINES BEARISH AVENGING STONERS |
| Richard Lauder | 5 | UTILIZER CALZONE TEENFUL LIMINESS ANISOLE |
| Susan Vergeront | 5 | SPARERS SEEDIEST DISEASE PARTIES quacker |
| Joe Horowitz | 5 | TURDINE WINTLES WARTIEST HAIRNETS STEELIE |
| Betty Hasselkus | 4 | CORSETS COASTER BOILERS remounds |
| Bryan Benwitz | 4 | RECENTLY CANISTER REMINDER swirlers |
| Helen Flores | 4 | OUTAGES ROOTAGES SQUIRES FIREPITS |
| Barb Besadny | 2 | TRESSED DOILIES |
| Darcy Davis | 1 | FITTINGS |
| Sue Goldstein | 1 | RELATION |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High K | Thomas Reinke | ||
| Low R | Darcy Davis | ||
| High A | Mark Kenas | ||
| Low I | Richard Lauder | ||
| High Games | |
| 517 | Mark Kenas |
| 492 | Charles Reinke |
| 490 | Aaron Bader |
| 477 | Richard Lauder |
| 476 | Charles Reinke |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2.5 | Mark Kenas |
| 2.25 | Charles Reinke |
| 2 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2 | Aaron Bader |
| 1.75 | Lynda Finn |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 83 | Barb Besadny |
| 79 | Richard Lauder |
| 77 | Charles Reinke |
| 77 | Lynda Finn |
| 76 | Bryan Benwitz |
| High Averages | |
| 474 | Charles Reinke |
| 437 | Mark Kenas |
| 428 | Aaron Bader |
| 425 | Thomas Reinke |
| 394 | Joe Horowitz |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 335 | Barb Besadny |
| 348 | Richard Lauder |
| 354 | Joe Horowitz |
| 359 | Charles Reinke |
| 366 | Thomas Reinke |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 98 | MASHIES | Lynda Finn |
| 98 | GUSHIER | Charles Reinke |
| 95 | URBANIZE | Charles Reinke |
| 93 | RESUMED | Mark Kenas |
| 91 | SQUIRES | Helen Flores |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 388 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 388 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 427 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 348 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 73 |
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