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#player1 Ryan_Fischer Ryan Fischer
#player2 Mina Mina
>Ryan_Fischer: AAAEEPS -AAE +0 0
>Mina: ADEIIRT -I +0 0
#note Best play per Quackle.
>Ryan_Fischer: AEOOPRS -OO +0 0
#note Like Ryan, didn't know OROPESA. Quackle slightly prefers playing OO to exchanging OO; I dunno about that.
>Mina: ADEIRTW 8D WIRED +26 26
#note Argh, Quackle prefers 8D WAIRED, followed by WAITED, so as not to put a vowel next to a DLS square.
>Ryan_Fischer: ADEEPRS H1 SPREADE. +89 89
>Ryan_Fischer: ADEEPRS -- -89 0
#note Wow, I didn't know top-choice H1 RESPADE(D) or runner-up D4 PERS(W)ADE.
>Mina: AAORTTU 7E AUTO +15 41
#note Quackle slightly prefers OUTA, I guess because it doesn't take an -S.
>Ryan_Fischer: ADEEPRS 9E SPEARED +78 78
>Mina: AIORSTU K7 AU.ITORS +68 109
#note Quackle agrees this is better than SAUTOIR.
>Ryan_Fischer: ELMNNOX L10 NOX +42 120
#note Quackle prefers J9 (E)X because it scores eight points more, but I agree with Ryan, I'd rather break up that duplicate N.
>Mina: BEIKLOW L1 BOWLIKE +90 199
#note Correct play.
>Ryan_Fischer: CEJLMNU 1L .ENJ +39 159
#note One of the top two plays along with cute 1I CLU(B)MEN, which I didn't know.
>Mina: AEGORSV 3I VRO.S +30 229
#note Ugh, my play isn't on the list of fifteen choices. Lesson to self: don't burn the S like this! Sob, so bad. Quackle likes M11 GOV for 28, leaving AERS. -18.8
>Ryan_Fischer: ACGILMU J8 M.G +22 181
#note Ryan has one of those racks that are usually hard for me. Quackle favors J12 CAUM for 28 leaving GIL.
>Mina: AEGGHLU O1 .UGGLE +17 246
#note Even though my play felt amateurish at the time, it actually sims in second place, hooray! First place is J12 GUE for 23, scoring six points more and keeping AGHL.
>Ryan_Fischer: ACILRUY N5 AYU +29 210
#note Oh wow, I didn't know (JUGGLE)RY, that's sick!
>Mina: ADFHNTZ K2 N.AH +28 274
#note I could tell I was making a suboptimal play (at least it sims in sixth place and not much worse). Alas, I didn't know WIRED took a T- front hook, so I couldn't have found Quackle's preferred plays of C5 DAFT or HAFT.
>Ryan_Fischer: CILMNPR H6 M...L +8 218
#note Quackle's second choice after 6B CLIP is the sexy but strange 12F PRINC(OX).
>Mina: ADFOQTZ 6C QAT +16 290
#note I always thought that you should unload the Q as fast as possible, but am starting to be told that this no longer applies at the upper levels of Scrabble. My play ranks eighth, and the top seven plays all *keep* the Q: oh my stars and garters! (But again, more than half of them require knowledge of the T- front hook on WIRED.)
>Ryan_Fischer: CEINPRT 8A PRE..... +42 260
>Ryan_Fischer: ACCIINT (challenge) +5 265
#note According to Ryan's annotation he was fishing for this extension, which I wasn't sure on and which is the best play here, followed by the non-obvious C3 CINQ.
>Mina: DFFILOZ B8 .IFF +18 308
#note Sigh, my play is nowhere in the top fifteen choices again. Tops is M11 DOFF for 36 leaving ILZ: I don't know if I just never saw that quasi-hotspot or what. I also missed B7 F(R)IZ, which simmed in second place.
>Ryan_Fischer: ACCIINT A11 ICTIC +41 306
#note Strong find and best play.
>Mina: DDELOTZ M11 TOZED +43 351
#note Oh sexy, I see why Quackle prefers M11 TODDE for many fewer points: it's to set up the Z! In lieu of that, TOZED is inferior to DOZED as it scores three points less.
>Ryan_Fischer: ?ABENOO 15A .OENOBAs +86 392
>Ryan_Fischer: ?ABENOO -- -86 306
#note His only bingo was (C)OENOBiA -- that word that I'd played on Joel Wapnick in Niagara before I'd ever studied it as an alphagram, but just seeing it on a list of five-vowel eights -- but I was *so* lucky that he misspelled it.
>Mina: DEEELVY 14A .DLY +16 367
#note Thanks to Matthew O'Connor for teaching me that it's possible to sim while specifying what you know of the opponent's rack! Now Quackle and I are on the same page, which is, hurry and block that bottom bingo lane before he remembers the correct spelling of COENOBiA. The thing is, I knew my block sucked because it kept three E's. I didn't even consider that I could've blocked by front-extending from the S on row 14. Defense rookie!!!! Quackle prefers DEEVE(S). -15.1
>Ryan_Fischer: ?ABENOO J2 O.B +17 323
#note Puzzled that Quackle prefers 13C or 15D ABOON for Ryan, since he needs to keep that bottom lane wide-open to maximize his chances of catching up, doesn't he? And indeed that's his thought; he writes in his annotation that he's also setting up for S(ORB). Wonder why ORB doesn't show up among the fifteen choices despite its high valuation.
>Mina: EEEINSV 15D ENVIES +36 403
#note Evans Clinchy says to change my sim from 2-ply to "many-plies" at this point since there are seven tiles left in the bag. Phew, I didn't get punished too badly for keeping three E's, and I made the correct play.
>Ryan_Fischer: ?AEHNOR 13C ANOtHER +88 411
#note One tile left in the bag. Holy crap, I clicked on Ask Championship Player as Evans advised, and it thinks that bingoing is only third best after 13M (Z)A and the bizarre O1 (JUGGLE)R!!! :^O
>Mina: ?AEIINT N13 ANI +24 427
#note Just drew the second blank, but can't use the top lane since a blank S only makes IsATINE. Quackle prefers 12D sTEAN for 33 leaving II, which I would say is *incredibly* hard to see, followed by C2 ANTI(Q)u(E) for 30 leaving EI, slightly less difficult. He has a million outs with his lone A, so it's all about maximizing score and minimizing the point value left behind on my rack. In that sense, my play tied for third-best.
>Ryan_Fischer: A H5 A..... +9 420
#note AMODAL* is phony; I didn't recognize it; I did twitch in disbelief when he played it. But because it was five-point challenge, and not "free challenge" the way that TWL players have at the end of their games, I did not have the luxury of challenging it, because an extra five points would have given him the victory.
>Ryan_Fischer: (EIT?) +6 426
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