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#player1 Winter Winter
#player2 George_Viebranz George Viebranz
>Winter: AHW 8G HAW +18 18
>George_Viebranz: AAIILRX 9E IXIA +20 20
>Winter: ?AAEENN E3 ENcAEN.A +64 82
#note What an awesome find... I've been through the five-vowel eights a bunch of times and didn't remember this one. I had nowhere to play my bingo, though, and I thought that if I ended up losing the challenge, that might change at relatively little cost.
#note The important thing to remember here is that Winter scores this as 68 points. I will remind you later.
>George_Viebranz: AEEGLNR - +0 20
>Winter: DEOY 8A DOYE. +30 112
>George_Viebranz: AEEGLNR A1 ENLARGE. +83 103
#note Whoomp.
>Winter: DEHIOST J5 HOISTED +75 187
#note H(O)ODIEST B7
>George_Viebranz: ADDMSUY D10 MUDDY +28 131
>Winter: ARV K4 VAR +24 211
>George_Viebranz: ?AFIKNS I10 FINK +24 155
>Winter: IQS I3 QIS +28 239
>George_Viebranz: ?AEEOSU C13 EAU +17 172
#note Missed AENEOUS and
>Winter: ORRT B11 TORR +24 263
>George_Viebranz: ?EOPU D2 UPO +18 190
#note: Couldn't read my rack here, but I'm sure I missed at least one bingo.
>Winter: JT 6D T.J +26 289
>George_Viebranz: ?AENOSU L6 AeNEOUS +67 257
#note Found it this time.
>Winter: GIW A12 WIG +33 322
#note: Another great play.
>George_Viebranz: ACINRTV 10D ..IN +25 282
#note: Not sure what I was thinking here, but I was starting to feel a lot more desperate than I should have.
>Winter: FGLO M4 GOLF +24 346
>George_Viebranz: ACCERTV C3 ACT +25 307
#note Another play I was not happy with. Missed CAVE L1.
>Winter: BMO M11 MOB +20 366
>George_Viebranz: ELV N12 LEV +19 326
>Winter: P 4H P. +7 373
>George_Viebranz: CLORRST 3C ...R +6 332
#note Desperation again. I was fishing, but I had no idea what for. I assumed Winter would have a great Z play in the O column and I would soon be toast.
>Winter: BEEEITZ L1 BIZE +50 423
#note That should do it. Winter figured he could outrun me, and even if I bingoed in the O column it wouldn't be enough to win.
>George_Viebranz: CILORST O7 COSTRIL +90 422
#note I had forgotten LICTORS, was very sure that COSTRIL* was good, and doubted SOLI. This was a Hail Mary, and even as I was scoring it I didn't realize that it would tie the game. I hit the clock and waited for the insta-challenge. The fact that it didn't come made me feel pretty good, because, like I said... I wasn't sure SOLI was good. I don't think I'd ever seen it on a board before. Now, if I had found LICTORS and known that it was the only good word in that rack, I could have played it at O6 and it wouldn't be enough. COSTRIL* scores 90, which ties. "Looks like a tie," I say. Winter, unhappy, says, "unless you want a recount." I thought about it for a minute, and I figured since I never thought I could win this game, a tie sounded pretty decent, and it would be nice to not have to worry about spread for a little bit. I didn't have much and Winter had tons. "I'll take the tie," I said. Winter then announced that he wanted to do a recount. I hung out while he did that. He gets to ENCAENIA and finds that he overscored it by 4 points. We both count it to be sure. I feel a strange mixture of guilt, pride, confusion, triumph, and the knowledge that karma exists indeed, and it had dropped a huge golden egg filled with Gummi Sharks and dollar bills into my lap.
>George_Viebranz: (EET) +6 428
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