Stats for February 2, 2022
1st Helen Flores made some type of history by finishing 4-1 +178, her first four-win outing since way back in February of 2013. It was also her first eight-bingo excursion since that same date. Helen's fruitful evening of Scrabble success started off with a masterful 452-411 win over last year's club champion, Thomas Reinke, thanks in no small part to two bingos of LOANING and BIPLANES. Thomas fought back with HATTERIA and ASYNDETA, but his efforts were, in the end, futile. Helen later improved on that heady 452 score with an even more dominant 469-280 win against Sara McLaughlin. In that game, Helen added three bingos (DETOXED, SHADIER, and SNIGGLED) to her ever-lengthening list of bonus plays. Unfortunately, a 303-430 loss against Charles Reinke prevented Helen from achieving a more-perfect-than-perfect 5-0 record.
2nd Charles Reinke went 4-1 with a barely-there spread of +6 to finish well back of Helen Flores for second place. Most of his spread total was obliterated in a crushing 569-402 loss against Thomas Reinke, who had four bingos: BAREGINE#, ENSWATHE, CHITOSAN, DELUSIVE. However, it was Charles' first official foray into the Collins lexicon, so it could have been worse. Besides, Charles got his revenge in a later rematch, winning 431-420 thanks to bingos of FORESAID, TIDELINE, and MATRICS.
3rd Dennis Lloyd powered his way to a 3-1 +257 record after missing the first game due to a work obligation (which is never a valid excuse for missing a game of Scrabble). He came out on top in both games of a two-on-one, beating Sue Goldstein 390-240 (despite her bingo of REFRIES) and Dave Kinzer 415-371. A closely fought 363-367 loss against Charles Reinke, where his bingo of RATTLED for 72 cleanly countered Charles' CRATERS for 70, proved to be the only blemish on an otherwise flawless performance from Mr. Jeopardy.
| Avg. Game Score | 382 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 382 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 423 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 341 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 74 |
