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#player1 Matthew_Ridout Matthew Ridout
#player2 Andy_Wade Andy Wade
>Matthew_Ridout: AEIIORV H8 OI +4 4
#note VIREO 8D best, mine 9th
>Andy_Wade: BERRY G9 BERRY +24 24
>Matthew_Ridout: AEEILRV I2 VEALIER +64 68
#note LEAVIER same spot a little better
>Andy_Wade: ABFT 4I .BAFT +20 44
>Matthew_Ridout: ACFGGIO 13C FOGG. +26 94
#note FAGGY same spot a little better
>Andy_Wade: AOZ 3K ZOA +44 88
>Matthew_Ridout: AACEEII 11E AE.IE +10 104
#note AECIAL 5D best, mine 2nd.
ACI vs EI leave - saving a consonant wasn't worht 6 pts it seems
>Andy_Wade: ILWY 10B WILY +23 111
>Matthew_Ridout: AAIINNR 12C INN +23 127
#note AZAN K2 best, mine 9th
AZAN scores 3 more. I prefer AA to II in a leave. Am surprised AZAN valuates a whooping 11 pts better and 6% less likely to lose
>Andy_Wade: APSS - +0 111
#note exch. 3
>Matthew_Ridout: AACEIRS 5G RA.ES +38 165
#note ALIAS 5H best, mine 6th.
The top eight moves all used this line
>Andy_Wade: DIPT 12I DIPT +17 128
>Matthew_Ridout: ACDEIKN 4D CAKE +22 187
#note CAKE 9A best, my play off the board
>Andy_Wade: ?ADEEPT 6A PrEDATE +64 192
>Matthew_Ridout: ?CDIILN A6 .IC +21 208
#note INCLIP (which which I was unfamilar) best, mine 4th. I considered LIPID, the 2nd best play, but even with a blank in hand didn't want to leave myelf vowel-free
>Andy_Wade: HUW K9 WHU. +24 216
>Matthew_Ridout: ?DILNSX E4 .X.L +22 230
#note best
>Andy_Wade: MOO L8 MOO +18 234
>Matthew_Ridout: ?DIINNS 8L .IND +21 251
#note DIN M7 best, mine 6th
>Andy_Wade: EGJLU N6 JU.GLE +32 266
>Matthew_Ridout: ?DINNNS O10 INN +8 259
#note INN J12 best, mine 6th
Looks lk I'm getting too conservative. With only 20 tiles unseen to me and two of them esses, seems to me a very good chance he's gt at least one. If I play from J12 and he makes a solid score to 15H, my hopes look sunk.
Instead I opted to waiti for a mistake from Andy to open the board, play close, and figured if he didn't make an error, I could maybe have advantage in a tight end game with the blank.
>Andy_Wade: MUV 2M VUM +22 288
>Matthew_Ridout: ?DENSTT 6I .D +17 276
#note ENTERED G1 was a behemoth, runaway winner here. I'm really confused how this play puts me at nearly 60% to win, since Andy would've undoubtedly played along Row 1 for a solid score at veryy least and dashed my comeback hopes.
>Andy_Wade: Q C9 Q. +21 309
>Matthew_Ridout: ?AENSTT 1N NA +20 296
#note TANK 51 simmed best, mine outside top 10.
Same strategy issue as before. I feel like if I create a lane, Andy can kill it for two many points.
>Andy_Wade: HO 3G HO. +21 330
>Matthew_Ridout: ?EOOSTT D12 ..O +3 299
#note A sliver of light! But the only bingo that plays is TOOLSET, a new one I didn't know. Next best was COD D4. I don't think 15 pts is enough here, and I want to switch to playing for a bingo near the end here.
My play (3rd best) can't be easily well-blocked, but forces my blank to be an N or K. And it probably forces him to block the Row 2 bingo lane.
There are 8 possible bingos with K that play I can draw to, per Zyzzyva, and i knew 5 of them. There are 43 bingos I could draw to with the blank as an N that play, and I was familiar with all but three.
>Andy_Wade: ERSSTU 2B SUREST +24 354
>Matthew_Ridout: ?AEOSTT 15B cOSTATE +76 375
>Matthew_Ridout: ?AEOSTT -- -76 299
#note What execution! Perhaps...genius? I hit it! i hit it!
...And then made maybe the biggest gaffe I've made in years. I missed NOTATES. I looked for over three minutes of my four and change left. I shuffled tiles, thought about affixes. I got as close as TONATES* in my mind. I wrote the natural anagram down.
Self-forgiveness is an art. I'm working on it :)
(I knew NOOS* wasn;t good unless it was miraculously a new word I'd forgotten.)
>Andy_Wade: R 10J R.. +8 362
>Andy_Wade: (AEOSTT?) +12 374
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