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#player1 Will Will
#player2 Larry Larry
>Will: ADEIINR 8D DENARII +70 70
>Larry: ?EOPRTX H1 eXPORTE. +101 101
>Will: AADEMNS 9B MAENADS +92 162
#note Didn't imagine that both anagrams would fit there! ANADEMS for 4 more
>Larry: GO 10F GO +19 120
>Will: EHJLORU 8A JO +31 193
>Larry: ADEINZ J7 D.AZINE +37 157
>Will: EEEHLRU I1 HUE +25 218
>Larry: BEELMNS 13C ENSEMBL. +82 239
>Will: EELNRSS 11H RE.NLESS +66 284
>Larry: GIIL O11 .IGIL +21 260
>Will: AEHIKOT N11 .HAKE +46 330
>Larry: AEGP 12A GAPE +26 286
>Will: FIOORTU 7G F.O. +28 358
#note Interesting play here. I was choosing between 11B TOFU, FEOD, and L7 TUFOLI. At this score I wanted to do something board closing, and at the very least FEOD forces column K to end in a blank S, as opposed to several vowels. It also blocks the T, which wasn't the biggest threat to begin with, but it's something. TUFOLI blocks the L but gives back a line, and TOFU blocks nothing but keeps a good leave given the consonant heaviness of the pool. Quackle thinks by playing FEOD over TOFU, I reduce Larry's bingo% by less than one percent. Not a great savings. But I think maybe in the long term it will help me more to have that sevens lane closed off.
>Larry: ADL A12 .LAD +18 304
>Will: IIORTUV L9 VO.TI +16 374
#note Another tricky one. The plays I considered here were OUTRIDE, VOLTI, and VITRIOL. Quackle also likes OUTVIE, which I didn't consider. OUTVIE could yield some nasty scores that bring Larry nearly even, so I'm not sure I like it that much. OUTRIDE nicely cripples row 5 and scores as well as I can here. On the other hand, leaving IV after OUTRIDE could go bad in a hurry with a lot of heavy consonants lurking and fewer vowels. VITRIOL is the blockiest play of all, preventing double-doubles and eliminating columns L and M, but leaving the lone U isn't ideal even though the Q is out. I felt that VOLTI best split the difference between scoring, vowels in leave, and blocking something.
>Larry: BI 11D BI +13 317
>Will: INORRUU E5 ROU.. +10 384
#note Either this or BUR.
>Larry: ?CEIRTY 15A .IRECTlY +92 409
#note Guess the play was BUR
>Will: AINRTTU 6C TR.U +6 390
#note Another tricky play here. What I was doing here is feinting a fish while going for QINTAR D1, which looks to score enough to win most endgames on this board. It's also kind of sneaky and might go unnoticed. Scoring only 6 points definitely hurts, though. Other options include 12F TUI, which scores well and retains the possibility of TRANQ, and 14C ANI, which is the highest score I can get here and retains a U for the Q, though it's hard to see how that would help without more vowels. I like my play because of the sneakiness element and also because it blocks a game-ending QUOTA play while preserving the case I to respond to C3 QUOTA.
>Larry: AOQU C3 QUO.A +30 439
>Will: AINOTVW D1 VAIN +37 427
>Larry: CFTWY F12 W.F. +18 457
>Will: OTW J3 WOT +14 441
#note Interesting to get a tie here when I carelessly overlooked 4 points in the early game. Don't make mistakes
>Will: (CTY) +16 457
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