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#player1 Noah Noah
#player2 Alec_Sjoholm Alec Sjoholm
>Noah: ADEINQS 8D QAIDS +50 50
>Alec_Sjoholm: HINW 9B WHIN +27 27
>Noah: ?AAENPY 8A YA +20 70
#note Didn't know PEASANtY, though this may be better anyway.
>Alec_Sjoholm: GIW E5 WIG.. +18 45
>Noah: ?AAENOP H1 PAEsANO. +77 147
>Alec_Sjoholm: FIX I3 FIX +36 81
>Noah: BELORST B6 BL.. +15 162
#note I was worried about the BIZ spot after LOB. Too paranoid? Maybe. But I guess EORST also works better than ERST on this board. So this is good.
>Alec_Sjoholm: ACRRT 3G R..RACT +26 107
>Noah: EGLORST D4 LOG +16 178
#note Missed SPROGLET!
>Alec_Sjoholm: ?EEIPRT N1 PEsTIER +82 189
>Noah: EEELRST K1 TE.SELER +66 244
>Alec_Sjoholm: DI O1 ID +24 213
>Noah: CDJKNTY -DJTNY +0 244
#note Burned too much time on this rack. It's actually better to just play through with 6M JET. I score over 30 on average next turn after that.
>Alec_Sjoholm: ABL F4 ALB +29 242
>Noah: CEFHKSS O6 FECK +46 290
#note Is FECKS better? The esses seemed really strong here, especially since I had the last ones.
>Alec_Sjoholm: AEINNOT M7 ENATION +72 314
>Noah: EEHSSTU L9 TUSH +30 320
#note Wasn't sure. I was worried about Alec scoring on column L, which is why I did this. I thought about ETCH, but that scoring spot looked so good, plus there were still three Us out. I liked this better than SHUTE because it seemed to give away less. I thought about HUE, which might be a worthwhile gamble. It's often bad if he has a D, but risking that he doesn't is reasonable.
>Alec_Sjoholm: OZ 2F ZO. +34 348
>Noah: DEEEINS I3 ...ED +25 345
>Alec_Sjoholm: AJRU C1 JURA +24 372
>Noah: EEINOSV 10A ONE +22 367
#note I also considered ENVOI and JOE. There are other options here too -- Quackle thinks playing (HO)VE or (D)OVE is good, I guess because those tiles work well with the pool. I have the last hooks for DOVE, and maybe column H isn't that hard to hit? It feels like a weird play, though. idk what's right here. Update: I thought about this a little more, and now (HO)VE looks like a really good play. Basically, winning this game without a bingo is pretty hard. The pool is good for scoring and I don't have many chances to make huge scores of my own, so Alec can just stay ahead of me, even with pretty awkward racks (case in point: this game). That might not be quite true, and if I'm really wrong about that, then maybe ONE (or even ONES!) is indeed correct. But if it's mostly correct, (HO)VE bingos about 40% of the time, compared to ONE and JOE, which are closer to 10%, so (HO)VE looks good.
>Alec_Sjoholm: DMNRUUV N12 DUM +21 393
#note I think Alec said this was his rack. Maybe something else, though.
>Noah: AEIIOSV O14 OI +10 377
#note Is this correct? I thought about playing VIA or AI, hooking DUMA, or playing SOJA. I think I liked this because it gave me better expected J options than VIA or AI did next turn, and because SOJA left me with terriblie tiles for the situation, while leaving the column O scoring spot for him. Seems like decent reasoning, but I'm not confident in it either. Update: After thinking a bit more, I like OI even more than I did, but more for the reasons I mentioned liking HOVE: OI just lets me bingo more than other plays. If someone found a play that bingoed more than OI, I'd probably prefer that.
>Alec_Sjoholm: GV 2B G.V +14 407
>Noah: AEEIOSV 10E SIEVE +20 397
#note Optimal. Maybe there's a better way to give myself a shot, but I doubt it.
>Alec_Sjoholm: MNORTUY I10 .TYMON +14 421
>Noah: AO B2 .OA +9 406
>Noah: (RU) +4 410
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