Club Struggles Through 4 Games Without Snacks
1st Thomas Reinke slammed down 13 bingos en route to a 4-1 +469 night, good for first place. Playing two in the first round, he experienced two very different games. Against Betty, he drew all the good tiles (just reporting the facts) and won easily, but against Helen, the good tiles were more evenly distributed. Helen fought until the very end, eventually losing 430-431, tying the club record for closest loss. Defense was the name of the game against Bryan, until a flurry of bingos in the second half led to a 420-316 win for Thomas. In the third round, Thomas bingoed early with JADEITE and OUTRANK, but was overcome by Charles' P-and-Y-containing bingos, DRAPERY and PODIATRY. How is a guy supposed to win a game when his opponent draws BOTH P's and BOTH Y's? The bulk of Thomas' spread came in the final against Aaron, where he won 571-275.
2nd Charles Reinke is the topic of the second paragraph of this writeup, so he must have come in second place. Right? I think that's how this works. Anyway, he played the nice WEBINARS against Andy in his first-round 477-419 win, along with PREFACE and MOTIONED. The bingos dried up against Gail, with him only getting down ACETINS (poll: is it spooky or not spooky that his twin played the same word in the same round?????? i'm going with spooky on this one) but he was able to get other high-scoring plays to earn the win, 440-368. Against Thomas, he hogged all the P's and Y's and, given that fact, won easily, 463-367. Charles' contest against Bryan in the last game featured only one bingo, RESTAGES for Bryan. Bingos are usually needed for high scores, reflected in the 322-345 final score.
3rd Bryan Benwitz outwitzed his opponents, going 3-1 + 71, but if you take out his games against the Reinkes, he went 2-0 +144! He and Dave had a high-scoring opening game, with Bryan prevailing, 469-398. Bryan got down TIMEOUS (adj. timely) and COREIGN, while Dave played CHANGED and ASTILBE (n. a flowering plant, also known as "false goat's beard", which has a much nicer ring to it). Angered/enraged (a fitting anagram pair) by his second-round loss against Thomas, he vowed to obliterate whoever his next opponent would be. That opponent turned out to be Helen, who took her certain defeat gracefully. His anger somewhated placated, he took it easy on Charles, only winning by 23 points and only playing one bingo.
Gail played the word-of-the-week, EGOTIZES for 107 big points in her win against Aaron.
| Intermediates |
| Bingos | ||
| Thomas Reinke | 13 | COOTIES LOUDENS SWOONERS SPECIATE PROETTE GREATEN BURSEEDS ACETINS JADEITE OUTRANK PETTERS REUNITED FLOGGER |
| Aaron Bader | 10 | OPIATES RESUMES AEROSATS DOTTERS CANDLING LIVERIED PEDLARS ARENITES tritide dearlier |
| Gail Salm | 9 | EGOTIZES BOINGED STAINER REUNION RADIOES DIRTIES DEITIES ORDERERS GRATINS |
| Andy Bohnsack | 7 | AUNTIES UNNAILED POISING HECTARES GIRLIEST TWANGIER HURDIES |
| Charles Reinke | 6 | WEBINARS PREFACE MOTIONED ACETINS DRAPERY PODIATRY |
| Bryan Benwitz | 6 | TIMEOUS COREIGN SHEENIE RATIONS SLOTTED RESTAGES |
| Helen Flores | 5 | EMERALD BOWLINE BENNIES FOLIAGES ORIENTAL |
| Dave Gilligan | 4 | CHANGED ASTILBE REFINES REALTORS |
| Landon Sykora | 2 | ADDICTS SPECIAL |
| Betty Hasselkus | 2 | NASTIER vantaged |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High O | Gail Salm | ||
| Low F | Andy Bohnsack | ||
| High F | Helen Flores | ||
| Low A | Bryan Benwitz | ||
| High Games | |
| 571 | Thomas Reinke |
| 493 | Aaron Bader |
| 492 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 482 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 482 | Thomas Reinke |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2.6 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2.25 | Gail Salm |
| 2 | Aaron Bader |
| 1.5 | Charles Reinke |
| 1.5 | Bryan Benwitz |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 89 | Betty Hasselkus |
| 79 | Gail Salm |
| 79 | Charles Reinke |
| 77 | Dave Gilligan |
| 76 | Bryan Benwitz |
| High Averages | |
| 453 | Thomas Reinke |
| 426 | Charles Reinke |
| 423 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 408 | Gail Salm |
| 399 | Aaron Bader |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 328 | Sue Goldstein |
| 360 | Thomas Reinke |
| 374 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 374 | Andy Bohnsack |
| 375 | Charles Reinke |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 107 | EGOTIZES | Gail Salm |
| 98 | vantaged | Betty Hasselkus |
| 89 | HECTARES | Andy Bohnsack |
| 88 | tritide | Aaron Bader |
| 87 | CHANGED | Dave Gilligan |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 384 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 384 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 432 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 336 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 76 |
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Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games
Wednesday, January 22:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
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Scrabble at Covenant Church
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