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#player1 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
#player2 Sal_Piro Sal Piro
>Joshua_Sokol: ALNOTUW H7 OUTLAW +26 26
>Sal_Piro: BDEEILT 11D EDIT.BLE +94 94
>Joshua_Sokol: GIJMNSX 10D MIX +60 86
#note A very cool position here. Yes, JINX is 70 whopping points! But it gives so many points to Sal, which makes it far worse than its face value. I also have (OUTLAW)ING if I draw an I after this, and I am sure to score with the J most of the time after this. But it is kind of clunky and OUTLAWING isn't that important. Perhaps JINX is still the play. There is another scoring spot on top of (EX) after JINX, which evens out the score-allowing problematic of JINX. Given that I didn't realize that I was forking scoring spots with JINX, I think I made a mistake here.
>Sal_Piro: ATV 12B VAT +22 116
>Joshua_Sokol: EGJMNNS 7G J.G +21 107
>Sal_Piro: CEII B10 CI.IE +32 148
>Joshua_Sokol: ?EMNNSU J1 UNNaMES +74 181
#note if this was challenged off I still had STUNTMEN, so I felt like it was a risk worth taking. Besides, it could be good even though I thought it wasn't. I've obviously heard it used in speech before and Sal probably has too.
>Sal_Piro: AGRU 1G AUG.R +18 166
>Joshua_Sokol: AEEFIOT A13 OAF +22 203
>Sal_Piro: ACENORS 2B CANOERS +76 242
>Joshua_Sokol: EEFITTW 3C WEFT +39 242
>Sal_Piro: HNO K4 NOH +26 268
>Joshua_Sokol: AEIIPTY L1 YIPE +44 286
>Sal_Piro: OOP C8 POO +22 290
>Joshua_Sokol: AILRSTV 4B VAT +24 310
>Sal_Piro: IY 8A YI. +24 314
>Joshua_Sokol: ?DGILRS 12K DIG +13 323
#note I played this xause even though it's a tad aggressive, Sal hitting something with DIGS isn't such a problem at this point, since I can counter with a bingo of my own: Something with DIGS opens an even better lane for me. I stand by this play, even though I could very well have played something like C2 (AWA)RD and kept things conservative. OUTLAWING is still a possibility after that, and OUTLAWS is also a possibility. I wanted to keep options open on this board, though, not just one. Probably not the right attitude.
>Sal_Piro: AAIR 10J ARIA +14 328
>Joshua_Sokol: ?ELRRST M7 STR.n.LER +72 395
#note Chickening out of STRAGGLER... so silly of me, not that it mattered.
>Sal_Piro: BINZ 14J ZIN.B +72 400
>Joshua_Sokol: EEEKOQS B7 Q. +11 406
#note here's the most important part of this game and yet I don't have my full rack! This might have been it, though. I don't even remember if this was the correct board orientation. All that I know is that I had no wins and I had to try and invent a scenario in which Sal thinks he is done for. That did indeed happen but he still pulled off the win since I couldn't execute whatt he feared given his mistracking and all. Anyways, tough loss this was.
>Sal_Piro: DE 15M .ED +16 416
>Joshua_Sokol: EEEKOOS 9L O.E +5 411
#note I felt it was necessary to draw the H, but instead I drew a vowel. I wanted to induce the most mistakes here given I had no win, and this seemed to do that, making Sal fear for his win. I knew he hadn't tracked correctly either, and his time was running out.
>Sal_Piro: ADHLNRU 13D HURL +17 433
#note He might have had the U here, but for sure he botched the endgame, just not enough to lose. This is -17 to DHURNA or LURDAN on row 15.
>Joshua_Sokol: EEKOS O6 OKES +28 439
>Sal_Piro: ADN 15I DAN +17 450
>Sal_Piro: (E) +2 452
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