Stats for December 6, 2023

1st Thomas Reinke repeated last week's first place finish, again going 4-1 with a +237 spread. A typical Collins-fueled bingo bonanza occurred in round two as Thomas played seven bingos across two games: TORQUING, ENISLED, URBANISE, ATTICIZE, FERMENTS, BRAWNIER, and REMUAGES#. However, only one of those games was a win, a 495-387 victory over lifelong adversary Charles Reinke. The other was a 422-540 loss to Mark Kenas, who had three bingos of his own: TRINARY, OTARINE# (the highest-probability seven letter word in the Collins dictionary), and PLEXUSES for 119. Thomas got his revenge in a rematch against Mark, 504-477, again with both players getting three bingos, which will be listed here even though that amount of bingos is somewhat tedious to type out: DENTILS, RORTIEST#, and SUDARIA for Thomas; EDICTAL, GRANTED, and HIPBONES for Mark. A 527-316 win over Richard Lauder saw Thomas get down a 140-point 3x3 of RELAPSED, after which the rest of the game became a formality. Helen Flores was significantly closer to beating Thomas, losing 370-379. While it is always unethical to "accidentally" make a math error to give yourself ten extra points, in this case Helen would have been justified in attempting such a strategy.

2nd Bryan Benwitz didn't score below 400 in any of his games as he finished at 3-1 +445. Squaring off against John Bialek in round one, Bryan won handily, 484-297, assisted by a valid bingo of ESERINES and an invalid bingo of MUTATERS* (MUTATORS was the word he was going for). Similar success was found against Dennis Lloyd, although this time, both of Bryan's bingos were valid (TRIODES and YEANLING) in his 492-315 win. Another hefty, but not quite as hefty, victory was scored against Dave Kinzer, 437-335. Bryan celebrated Valentine's Day a couple months early with his single bingo of ROMANCE, while Dave got down SPOILING. Sitting at 3-0, Bryan seemed poised to put another 4-0 trophy on his trophy shelf (note: both the trophy and the trophy shelf are metaphorical), but it was not to be; Charles defeated him 427-406 thanks to finds of LINEAGES, RHEOSTAT, and the phony-but-plausible WOKENESS*. WOKER and WOKEST were recent additions to the dictionary, but apparently not WOKENESS.

3rd Dennis Lloyd recovered from his "perfect" 0-5 record last week to go 3-1 +175 this week. It was quickly apparent that his fortunes had changed on this night, as his first game was a 531-338 beatdown administered to Beth Amos, good for Dennis' second-highest scoring game this year. His bingos were HOVERED, SEXTANT, GINGERS, and BETRAYED, and that bingo total of four matches a personal best for Dennis at our club. As punishment for his success against Beth, Dennis lost to Bryan Benwitz 315-492 in the next round, but he got back on track quickly with a win over Wendy Bialek, 428-306. Wendy got down STONERS, while Dennis played ATOMISED and the phony OUTLEAN*, a word which brings to mind another phony that has been attempted out of that set of letters, TOLUANE* (please don't commit that one to memory). Dennis finished up his third-place effort with a bingoless 352-315 win against Richard Lauder.

Mark's nine-letter CANONICAL was word of the week. A valuable learning experience was had by all when an S was hooked on it and a challenge was unsuccessful. CANONICALS is a noun meaning "the official dress of the clergy".



Bingos
Charles Reinke14TANAGERS GUYLINES ANDESYTE ORDERED REGIMEN GNASHED LATHIEST AMORTISE TEOCALLI LINEAGES RHEOSTAT portoise tonalite wokeness
Thomas Reinke13SECTIONS TORQUING ENISLED URBANISE ATTICIZE FERMENTS BRAWNIER STATION RELAPSED(3x3) DENTILS SUDARIA remuages rortiest
Mark Kenas10TRIVALVE TRINARY PLEXUSES ARMOIRE CANONICAL EDICTAL GRANTED HIPBONES otarine tritides
Dennis Lloyd7HOVERED SEXTANT GINGERS BETRAYED RENAILS ATOMISED outlean
Bryan Benwitz6ESERINES TRIODES YEANLING ROMANCE MUSKIER mutaters
Richard Lauder5HASSLES UNWILLED MOORIEST FONTINAS DROOLING
Helen Flores5DUETING FEARING ANTIHERO OUTRAGE STEWING
Sara McLaughlin5SLOTTER MEANDER TAINTED DINGERS SQUIRING
Beth Amos4RESONATE STOOLIES BLOUSIER SOLOIST
Wendy Bialek3SERVERS STONERS DIGESTS
David Kinzer1SPOILING
Jane Wesson1SEXISTS
John Bialek1ENTOILS

High Averages
473Mark Kenas
465Thomas Reinke
455Bryan Benwitz
436Charles Reinke
407Dennis Lloyd

Low Opponent Averages
336Jane Wesson
341David Kinzer
344Bryan Benwitz
361Richard Lauder
363Dennis Lloyd

High Scoring Bingos
140RELAPSEDThomas Reinke
122GNASHEDCharles Reinke
119PLEXUSESMark Kenas
92STEWINGHelen Flores
87GINGERSDennis Lloyd

Session Averages
Avg. Game Score389
Avg. Intermediate Score0
Avg. Expert Score389
Avg. Winning Score437
Avg. Losing Score342
Avg. Bingo Score75

Wednesday, December 25:
No Scrabble Christmas Day

Wednesday, January 1:
No Scrabble New Years Day (see open house below)

Wednesday, January 8:
Scrabble at Covenant Church

Wednesday, January 15:
Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games

Wednesday, January 1:
Scrabble Open House

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