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#player1 Gunther Gunther
#player2 Noah Noah
>Gunther: AACEEIL 8H AECIA +16 16
#note Gunther mentioned that he had this and wasn't sure of AECIAL.
>Noah: AEEIILO M5 AIOLI +15 15
>Gunther: IIIII -IIIII +0 16
>Noah: EEEEGIZ L2 GEEZ +39 54
>Gunther: EFQU K7 F.QUE +34 50
>Noah: AEEFIOP 2J FO.IE +34 88
>Gunther: ADMW 3I MAW.D +44 94
>Noah: ABDEPSS 12K SABED +38 126
>Gunther: GOX 13L GOX +42 136
>Noah: ILLOPSU N10 PL..US +42 168
>Gunther: AEIIRTY 15I AIRIE.T +24 160
#note Actual rack. Why not just YETI?
>Noah: ADIILMO O5 MILADI +31 199
>Gunther: EOV 1M VOE +27 187
>Noah: ACJOTTV 10J J.T +26 225
#note So the pool is 1/4 vowels at this point. For the rest of the game, vowels looked especially important. So do blanks.
>Gunther: EKUY 14F YEUK +25 212
>Noah: ACDNOTV I7 D.V +13 238
#note As I mentioned there's a big incentive to keep vowels here. This is why I didn't play OCTAD. I thought about both placements of DEV and COVED. Looking at the position now, even with other plays like VOD(KA) available, those look like the 4 plays to consider. Right now playing DEV doesn't make too much sense to me. It keeps an extra vowel but ANT is probably enough to keep and turning over two extra tiles with two blanks and two Hs still out seems far more important. If I do play DEV I should play the other one! COVED G11 looks like the play. I'm not sure quite why I made this play. I think part of it is wanting to somehow be "cute".
>Gunther: EGNOTU 15A TONGUE +32 244
>Noah: ACNOPRT 13C CROP +24 262
#note CARTOP is pretty awesome! I did not know the word. PRONTO seems right here. Turns over 5 and also keeps an A. I didn't think of it. Not sure how good this is...seemed alright and I was running a bit low on time.
>Gunther: ?ENNRRT K1 T..N +9 253
#note I believe this was Gunther's rack.
>Noah: AHLNTTY 15H H....... +48 310
>Gunther: ?EINRRS A8 ReINSER. +74 327
>Noah: AHLNTTY 4G THY +20 330
#note I thought about LATHY, but it seemed like this would have to be better. Another option is (e)THYL, which I didn't see. I think I prefer eTHYL here. Intuitively, it seems to raise my bingo chances. It also helps me draw the blank, something I will often need to win. ALNT seems poorer than ANT here. I can't quite describe why I think eTHYL is better but it just seems to do a lot of things better to me.
>Gunther: ?NNORSW B4 WONNeRS +69 396
>Noah: ABELNOT A1 LOBATE +37 367
>Gunther: AR C4 AR +11 407
>Gunther: (N) +2 409
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