No One Brought Any Leftover Halloween Candy
1st In what is becoming a weekly occurrence, Bryan Benwitz came in first with a 4-0 +467 record. In the first round, he beat Lynda 478-356, most of the spread coming from his held-for-an-eternity-but-begrudgingly-accepted play of VICHIES (n. VICHY, a type of mineral water, usually resembling the naturally effervescent type from springs in Vichy, France) for 105. Can anyone say "word-of-the-week"? Against Charles, he played tight defense and prevented his normally bingo-prone opponent from bingoing at all, winning 404-317. He got down the low-probability SCORCHER in that game as well as the higher-probability PAINTIER. In the next round, he got some small measure of revenge against Thomas, who had beaten him three times at Lynda's tournament last weekend, with a 418-382 win. Both players got two bingos down, so it was Bryan's late X-bomb that sealed the deal. He faced the similarly-undefeated Terry in the final round and showed no mercy to the visitor, winning 510-288. I would make a joke involving his bingo of BEHEADS, but maybe it wouldn't be in good taste.
2nd Gail Salm went 3-1 +185, going undefeated if you just ignore her first game. A first game where Helen beat her 482-305. Not a good start, but Gail recovered, first by beating Lynda 446-375 with the bingos DETOURS and BREEZING. Against Dave, she need only one bingo, TREENAIL (n. a wooden peg, also TRENAIL) to win 423-235. She must have been saving her bingos for when she needed them most urgently, as she bingoed four times against Thomas, winning 479-376. She played AUNTLIER, ENTAILED, ERMINES, and went out with VALINES for good measure. Thomas did get down TARGETED, but it wasn't even close to enough. A triple-triple or two would have served him a lot better.
3rd Richard Lauder went 3-1 +5, averaging a dominant 365 compared to his opponent's measly 364. He won 378-370 against David in the first round, playing FEELERS versus David's MUSICAL. He also challenged off David's reasonable attempt of TOTALERS* (only RETOTALS is good), which given the final score made a big difference. His attempts at bingoing in the second game were futile as he lost 312-360 to Terry, whose attempts at bingoing were successful by way of AIRIEST (the club's favorite bingo, now played 30 times!). In the next game, he squeaked out a victory over multiple-time club champ Charles, 375-372. Against Warren in the fourth round, he won 396-354, playing BARONIES for 90 as well as TIGERISH, which drew a challenge. You can also spell that word TIGRISH, which looks even worse, somehow.
Bonus paragraph: 4th Terry Hope made the long and trecherous journey to Madison to play four games of Scrabble, and she won three of them. Her hopes of an undefeated night/positive spread were dashed when she faced the always-unwelcoming Bryan, but 3-1 is still pretty good.
| Intermediates |
| Bingos | ||
| Thomas Reinke | 10 | DILATION NURSERS EARACHE ANTIFOAM MISLIVE SNOOKERS STEARIN THEINES TIPTOED TARGETED |
| Bryan Benwitz | 9 | NEUROMAS VICHIES SOLATES SCORCHER PAINTIER BASTING DRAGONS BEHEADS CANISTER |
| Gail Salm | 8 | GRIPIEST DETOURS BREEZING TREENAIL AUNTLIER ENTAILED ERMINES VALINES |
| Lynda Finn | 8 | ANTIGEN RETINAE GENTLES STENTOR TOOLINGS METERING DEVISEES cetenes |
| Charles Reinke | 5 | INSULTS PUDGIEST GARNETS AROINTS COOTIES |
| Richard Lauder | 4 | FEELERS HOARIER BARONIES TIGERISH |
| Helen Flores | 4 | LEISURE THORIUM BUSTLER TENTING |
| Dave Gilligan | 4 | SOAPILY DESEXING ANIMATE SHOALIER |
| Terry Hope | 3 | AIRIEST GRANDEES PORTAGE |
| Warren Bergmann | 2 | TREACLES TROUBLED |
| Mary Becker | 2 | VIOLENT TANGIEST |
| David Kinzer | 1 | MUSICAL |
| $4 Prizes | |||
| Prize | Player | Word | Score |
| High S | Bryan Benwitz | ||
| Low E | Helen Flores | ||
| High P | Charles Reinke | ||
| Low S | Gail Salm | ||
| High Games | |
| 510 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 502 | Thomas Reinke |
| 490 | Lynda Finn |
| 482 | Helen Flores |
| 479 | Gail Salm |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2.25 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 2 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2 | Gail Salm |
| 1.6 | Lynda Finn |
| 1 | Charles Reinke |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 81 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 81 | Dave Gilligan |
| 80 | Gail Salm |
| 80 | Richard Lauder |
| 77 | David Kinzer |
| High Averages | |
| 453 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 414 | Thomas Reinke |
| 413 | Gail Salm |
| 401 | Lynda Finn |
| 396 | Charles Reinke |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 336 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 339 | Warren Bergmann |
| 355 | Mary Becker |
| 364 | Richard Lauder |
| 367 | Gail Salm |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 122 | DESEXING | Dave Gilligan |
| 105 | VICHIES | Bryan Benwitz |
| 94 | GRIPIEST | Gail Salm |
| 92 | BEHEADS | Bryan Benwitz |
| 92 | ANTIFOAM | Thomas Reinke |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 374 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 374 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 415 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 332 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 76 |
Wednesday, April 9:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, April 16:
Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games
Wednesday, April 23:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, April 30:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
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