Stats for January 4, 2023
1st Thomas Reinke started the new club season in the same way he ended the last one, in first place, this time with a 3-1 +376 final tally and a 478 average game score. His high score of the night was against Helen Flores, 512-275, thanks to bingo finds of ANISETTE and SILVEXES (SILVEX is a type of herbicide, so has the conventional -ES plural, not the -ICES plural seen in words like INDEX->INDICES or SCOLEX->SCOLICES). Helen found RESITES in her losing effort. Thomas' only loss of the evening came against Mark Kenas, a high-scoring affair (typical of the international Collins dictionary) which ended in a score of 474-516. A nice nine-letter bingo of IMITATIVE was the jewel in Thomas' crown, but Mark was on a bingo spree of his own with SCROUGES, FRENULAR, and a 111-point DOWNSIZE.
2nd Mark Kenas achieved a 3-1 +221 record, those three wins being a somewhat rare feat given that his choice of dictionary dooms him to playing the Reinkes and nobody else. Spreading bingos across the board like a majestic peacock, Mark easily handled Charles Reinke in round one, winning 553-411. Seven total bingos were played in the game, five of them Mark's: BORNITE, SIENNAS, TRAGICAL, LAKESIDE, and NAEVOID. Charles got down SPURTED and FORESAW. A second matchup against Charles ended in much the same result: Mark's win, 432-343, with Collins-only bingos of BEDRITE# and PORLOCK#. Mark's loss came against Thomas Reinke, 431-483. Thomas played the snazzy double-Z bingo of SNAZZIER in that one, but failed to invoke the little-known rule that any play made with two Z's automatically scores 500 points and instantly ends the game. (That was a joke and there is no such rule, but your friends and family don't know that if you want to try it out on them.)
| Mark Kenas | 12 | BORNITE SIENNAS TRAGICAL LAKESIDE NAEVOID YIELDERS HOGTIES SCROUGES FRENULAR DOWNSIZE bedrite porlock |
| Thomas Reinke | 10 | TANNERS VINEYARD SNAZZIER ANISETTE SILVEXES IMITATIVE SATIATED REGNANT alecost inconie |
| Charles Reinke | 8 | SPURTED FORESAW ELONGATE SERIEMA DEAIRING LATESTS OBVIATED REKINDLE |
| Richard Lauder | 7 | REBOOTS COTTERS ORIENTAL TAGETES OUTLIERS NEOLITHS dialator |
| Helen Flores | 4 | PATIENT SEMINAL RESITES drapings |
| David Kinzer | 1 | UNINVITED |
| Avg. Game Score | 409 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 409 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 455 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 362 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 77 |
