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#player1 Matt_Canik Matt Canik
#player2 Geoff_Thevenot Geoff Thevenot
>Matt_Canik: BDEEIKR 8D BIKED +30 30
#note KERBED
>Geoff_Thevenot: ADW 7G WAD +25 25
>Matt_Canik: DEEFGNR E7 F.NGERED +76 106
>Geoff_Thevenot: CEINNSS 13B NIC.NESS +74 99
>Matt_Canik: GIINOQT J6 QI +39 145
>Geoff_Thevenot: ANNRY 10E .RANNY +20 119
>Matt_Canik: CGINOOT B9 COOI.G +22 167
>Geoff_Thevenot: AIU 6J .UAI +13 132
>Matt_Canik: EEFNOTT 7L EFT +21 188
#note I can score 3 more with FET 6F, but I felt some compelling need to shut off the QUAI spot. I don't know why I'm opening important, hard-to-block S spots on this board, but I do know that I'm probably faking him out with this play by making him think I'm setting myself up.
>Geoff_Thevenot: AORVY 11J OVARY +27 159
>Matt_Canik: AEHNPTT N10 H.ENA +38 226
#note Got a little ahead of myself with the TLS-DWS, HEAT or HEAP are obvious underlap plays that are better defensively.
>Geoff_Thevenot: ELUX O12 LUXE +50 209
#note I deserve this.
>Matt_Canik: IILPRTT 5L TRIP +15 241
#note Too scared of the S spot to leave this open.
>Geoff_Thevenot: AO D12 O.A +17 226
>Matt_Canik: ABIRRTT 8M TAB +24 265
>Geoff_Thevenot: ALU K3 LUA. +22 248
#note I had completely forgotten this took a front A. I held this for a little, mostly out of surprise, but the word looked familiar to me when he played it.
>Matt_Canik: EILMRRT L10 M.RL +12 277
#note I spent forever on this turn. I didn't want to play this, give up a 30-point play along 3, and then have a tie game with two blanks unseen to me. At the same time, a play like MI(L)LER opens up the top-left part of the board in such a way that it's almost inevitable that he'll eventually bingo. I don't want that.
>Geoff_Thevenot: HOP 6F HOP +28 276
>Matt_Canik: EIJRTTU 3I JI.TER +42 319
>Geoff_Thevenot: MV J2 V.M +20 296
>Matt_Canik: EGLTTUZ 5B GLUTE +17 336
#note I think I pretty much win now barring an -IS(E) bingo along 15. He said I blocked SIDEWAy with this.
>Geoff_Thevenot: ?ADEISW C3 WI.E +14 310
>Matt_Canik: ?EIOOTZ 14H OOZEs +43 379
#note I'm about 99% sure that WILE doesn't take any front hooks in TWL. I spent a really long time deliberating whether I should let that 1% of doubt cost me a lot of spread by making a stupid blocking play like (W)IZ or (W)IT. Elected to go with my gut on word knowledge, something I think I need to teach myself to do more (see round 13).
Quackle's highest-valued play here is the ridiculously counterintuitive TIE D1.
>Geoff_Thevenot: ?ADEOSS 2A AlDOSES +77 387
>Geoff_Thevenot: ?ADEOSS -- -77 310
#note My heart dropped a little when he set this down, since Geoff is so good at words, but a huge wave of relief as the screen was red. DWILE is collins-only.
>Matt_Canik: IT 15G IT +15 394
>Matt_Canik: (ADEOSS?) +14 408
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