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#player1 Jill_Turney Jill Turney
#player2 Joshua_Sokol Joshua Sokol
>Jill_Turney: EHIKR 8D HIKER +32 32
>Joshua_Sokol: EILMRTT E5 REL.MIT +36 36
#note keep forgetting this isn't good, but I always remember PRELIMIT!
The classic Josh strategy of opening with a phony. I was iffy about this though. I imagined she had EX though, so even though this is 7 raw equity points better than LIMITER (KEX scores 59 vs EX scoring 52), I should just have played 9E TIMER. Gotta trust myself more.
>Jill_Turney: EX F5 EX +52 84
>Joshua_Sokol: AEENOTT F8 .ETA +20 56
#note ... KETO? I guess I only know new 4s. -3
>Jill_Turney: JO D4 JO +21 105
>Joshua_Sokol: EINOOTT 7G TOO +10 66
#note TENTO(R)IA after (K)ETO
But it's OK, I can afford one stupid mistake after making a better-than-optimal play the turn before.
Noteworthily I would have liked to play (TA)TTOOINE. That's how you spell it right?
I guess take the 2 extra points and increased chances at a bingo with 9C TO(ME)
>Jill_Turney: AA 9H AA +6 111
#note weird that I didn't catch her overscoring this play by 1.
>Joshua_Sokol: EIMNRTU F2 MUR.. +20 86
#note Here it is folks. I only saw UNMITER and UNMITRE, originally thought there had to be another one in there, but then remembered UNMITERS UNMITRES TERMINUS and convinced myself that I was just wishing that there was a third anagram with my rack so that I would havfe a playable bingo. I must look at the small details more often, as the God of Pun would say.
>Jill_Turney: EEINPSS J5 PENISES +70 181
#note many sighs when she slapped this word down. Unfortunately her best play was to first lay down PENISES, and then switch it to 4F (R)IPENESS.
Trigger warning: What is the ideal penises ripeness?
>Joshua_Sokol: EIINOTT 5H TO.I +12 98
#note as Cesar puts it best, "I already lost."
>Jill_Turney: BEGIY 4K BEIGY +34 215
>Joshua_Sokol: EINPQRT O3 P.RITE +33 131
#note quick, set up my Q!
Against an expert that might be better, but Jill could very likely open the board after my play of Q(I) and give me a bingo. Dunno.
For my sanity P(Y)RITE is definitely a better play, since if I were to draw another rack in which it seemed my bingo did not play I would have lost my cool. Obviously I knew I probably screwed something up at this point.
>Jill_Turney: ?ALORTU N8 TORULAe +68 283
#note oops.
Would have had to make her find an 8, so I guess I should have dropped my Q. :(
>Joshua_Sokol: INOQUVW H1 QUIN. +45 176
#note Getting QUOIN down would have helped my case. Between this and QUINO(A), I figured I was very desperate here and so creating that extra huge lane at 1H seemed very valuable, despite the points sacrifice. QUINO(A) didn't do very good things to the board. Still, Quackle prefers it, postulating that the board will open in the long run and I will be able to hit multiple bingos. Doubtful.
>Jill_Turney: ADENW M9 WANED +47 330
#note but I guess the duck saw this coming
>Joshua_Sokol: EFGNOVW L12 GOWN +30 206
#note still going for that Q in a few turns. Not gonna play M1 VOW(I)NG
>Jill_Turney: ABCOR 15G CARBO. +30 360
>Joshua_Sokol: EFFISVZ 12A VIFFS +46 252
#note Quackle also misjudges this game due to it not knowing that the S hook on RELIMIT* is live. This allows me to score well and open up another quadrant of the board to distract from what the program believes is the inevitable fate of the Q lane getting closed. Also, a simulation is incapable of deciding to play for one single bingo lane on a board that has multiple lanes, which explains its lack of love for QUIN(T).
Otherwise, I strongly considered sacrificing points here immediately to keep both a better leave for the Q (I had been looking for QZ bingos for awhile). just V(I)FF sims significantly higher than VIFFS just due to that factor alone (more shots at QUINZEES) plus the theoretical plays Jill could make that open up a nice lane for my ZS combo. Otherwise, given that I can use the phony S hook on RELIMIT* later, keeping EISZ looks woth the 20 point sacrifice now, so as not to give back good scoring for Jill (heaven knows she has been taking advantage of everything I have given her).
>Jill_Turney: ENVY B10 VE.NY +38 398
>Joshua_Sokol: ADDEIOZ C5 DAD +12 264
#note not seeing any way that Jill will not block the Q otherwise, I give up on going for QUEAZIER. Stupidly. I should at least try with G11 ODD. Perhaps my subconscious was telling me she already had the U, which ended up being true. In that case, best to just give up on the Q and play this or something. Ugh, if only A(DORE) weren't a thing, this play would be much better than it was. M3 D(I)AZO is a good middling play.
>Jill_Turney: AH B5 AH +32 430
>Joshua_Sokol: EGILOSZ A6 SIZE +45 309
#note A12 (V)IOL for 28
>Jill_Turney: ?ACDLNU 2H .NLACeD +22 452
#note UNCLOUD
>Joshua_Sokol: EGLO 2B GOLE. +16 325
>Joshua_Sokol: (U) +2 327
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