Stats for September 10, 2025
1st Thomas Reinke basically crushed everybody who had the misfortune of being paired with him, as he finished at 5-0 +813. That +813 spread feels close to some kind of record; since this website does not keep track of such things, all we can do is wildly speculate. He smoked Steve Hartsman in round one, 528-321, getting NATURES, PLEACHES, and AIRIEST (that last one getting AIRIEST quite close to overtaking ETESIAN as the most commonly played bingo at club, 44 to 46). Switching over to the Collins dictionary, Thomas got a nice win over Mark Kenas, 472-383, while also adding three more bingos to his illustrious bingo total: LITHARGE, AUXESIS, and OVERLIT (Mark had CANOODLE and LEGLENS#). The bingoing slowed down somewhat for the third round, but even with a single bingo of TIDEWAY, Thomas took Richard back to school, 443-261. For the final round, Thomas put his undefeated record in jeopardy by playing two games at once, but when all was said and done, he had bingoed eight times and his undefeated record remained intact: he beat Mark Kenas again by a score of 492-328, but saved the majority of his wrath for Sara McLaughlin, whom he beat 557-286 while playing five bingos, all of them on the more probable end of the spectrum: FANTASIE, SLITTER, REDATES, OUTHEARS, and SOIGNEE.
2nd Charles Reinke went 4-0 +341, resulting in total Reinke domination. It was a slow start for Charles as he won his first game against Mark Kenas 369-345, an uncommonly low score when playing in the lexicon that has words like ZE and JA. Charles' knowledge of top-100-probability bingos came in handy as he plopped down ARENOSE to secure victory. He improved on that score, but not by much, when he beat Andy Bohnsack in round two, 382-360. Both players were not their usual selves and played just one bingo: INFLAMED for Andy, WHITELY for Charles. Charles got things going in round three when he beat Mark again, 507-385, finding EPHEMERA, ADVENES#, and CALIGOS# (EPHEMERA takes an E, L, and S at the end, since it is a type of fly and not just the plural of EPHEMERON). Charles faced strong opposition in the final round, with Bryan Benwitz representing a significant obstacle towards the goal of a perfect record, but Charles dispatched him handily, 488-315.
3rd Lynda Finn went 4-1 +352 to achieve her third one-loss session in a row. Her round one match against Dave Kinzer saw just one bingo hit the board (Lynda's ESTUARY), but it was her win, 374-314. In round two, Lynda suffered her only loss, 314-413 to Sara McLaughlin (playing FEASTING in the losing effort), but as consolation, she won the second game of her two-on-one, taking down Dennis Lloyd with a final score of 414-383 (playing LEATHERS and DESTINE). Lynda also got a big win against second-timer Carol, playing FEEDING and SINNERS (church joke goes here) for a final tally of 411-247. Cementing her third-place effort was a 418-405 victory against Richard Lauder.
| Thomas Reinke | 15 | NATURES PLEACHES AIRIEST LITHARGE AUXESIS OVERLIT TIDEWAY ASCRIBE KYANITE THINNERS FANTASIE SLITTER REDATES OUTHEARS SOIGNEE |
| Mark Kenas | 9 | BUTYRINS CANOODLE ENDOCARP MARMITES GESNERIA BOLIDES smithed leglens aieries |
| Lynda Finn | 7 | ESTUARY FEASTING LEATHERS DESTINE FEEDING SINNERS SNARING |
| Andy Bohnsack | 7 | AERIFIED TUSSORE INFLAMED AGONIZES TROVERS HORNIEST INCREATE |
| Richard Lauder | 7 | SNAILED CLEAVING SEARING NATIVES RENAILS SALVOED STEADING |
| Charles Reinke | 6 | ARENOSE WHITELY EPHEMERA KINARAS advenes caligos |
| Bryan Benwitz | 5 | LORGNONS LOTIONS TUMEFIED RAISABLE UNRAISED |
| Steve Hartsman | 5 | DIABASE RESENTED CRINGERS OUTFIRED sunners |
| Dennis Lloyd | 4 | COTERIES STEROIDS LECTERN QUESTING |
| David Kinzer | 3 | FOOTIES ELECTION DOUBTER |
| Carol | 2 | AUDITIONS LEONINE |
| Helen Flores | 2 | ROOTAGE QUIVERED |
| Sara McLaughlin | 1 | BESIEGED |
| Avg. Game Score | 382 |
| Avg. Intermediate Score | 0 |
| Avg. Expert Score | 382 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 426 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 338 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 75 |
