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#player1 Prashanth_S Prashanth S
#player2 BJ BJ
>Prashanth_S: AELOPRS 8D PAROLES +74 74
#note Also REPOSAL (which interestingly has a back-hook L).
>BJ: BDEEFMR 7G DEB +25 25
#note I miss BEDFRAME. Did I think of BEFRAMED*? Maybe. Don't feel bad about missing it. 2x2 DEFAMER (or BREAMED) would've been nice too. Besides those, 7I FEM sims best, then G7 FOB. My choice is further down. Didn't know the word FERBAM.
>Prashanth_S: EOW 9C WOE +16 90
#note Quackle likes J5 OWES here quite a bit.
>BJ: ?EFMMRR 9G MM +23 48
#note Quackle and I agree here.
>Prashanth_S: GIILNO J8 .OILING +14 104
>BJ: ?EFIRRY 11I F.Y +18 66
#note How did I miss FERRYING? REFINERY, REFRYING, and FRILLERY also. Can't miss those. Playing an -ING bingo in row 14 has higher valuation than in row 13, presumably because putting a vowel on square 13H is just asking for a big response in column H to the TWS. Anyway, I was stumped as to the best choice here. Quackle likes E7 AERY and 10F FY making DOMY.
>Prashanth_S: ADIQR 13H QI.DAR +34 138
>BJ: ?EIKORR 6I OKE +22 88
#note Two turns in a row now I've really wanted to ditch an R but can't find a good way. 12L KERO was the best choice. I saw 12L KOR but thought it too dangerous. My choice has pretty poor valuation compared to several others. Putting a letter into 3x3 territory is probably fine because he just got 5 new tiles.
>Prashanth_S: EFNNSSU L1 FUNNESS +86 224
>Prashanth_S: EFNNSSU -- -86 138
#note I didn't hesitate much challenging here. I thought it could maybe be valid, but FUN is a noun to begin with, so FUNNESS would just mean FUN. That said, English doesn't follow logic a lot of the time. :)
>BJ: ?HIORRT 5K HORI +24 112
>BJ: ?GIILRT (challenge) +5 117
#note Missed HERITOR. HORI at 12L sims quite a lot better, but I thought opening up the front-hook T on HE wasn't a bad idea given that I have a T. +5 for challenge.
>Prashanth_S: EFNNSSU N10 FUNS +32 170
>BJ: ?GIILRT M3 GI.L +10 127
#note Missed STRIGIL, don't know it. This is yet another "I can't figure out what to do" play where I eventually get exhausted thinking about it. Quackle likes L1 TRIGO. It keeps wanting me to set myself up for a triple-triple, so it would seem.
>Prashanth_S: EGNO O7 GONE +20 190
>BJ: ?EEINRT H13 .IN +36 163
#note Finally, I find a bingo! But wait ... I have an easy 36 points at H13 QIN with an excellent leave. Should I do it? I've been getting further and further behind, and figure it's an easy 36 and I'll probably bingo next turn anyway, so I take it. But actually there are not that many bingo lanes, necessarily .... Quackle likes bingoing better, but QIN doesn't sim too terribly either. The best plays are hooking an S onto SOILING, which I wasn't willing to try, didn't know it was valid and didn't think it would be.
>Prashanth_S: AEENOSU 4E AENEOUS +64 254
#note Oof, there went the best lanes, both in one shot.
>BJ: ?CEERTV H1 CRE. +18 181
#note I should have found COVETER, sigh. Well, I want to open up lanes and probably ditch at least one of the C or V, hopefully for some points. Again, Quackle likes sticking a letter out to the edge: 10A EVET sims well, as does just VET in that spot for the set-up. I went with CREE, which I wasn't excited about.
>Prashanth_S: DIRT 3E TRI.D +21 275
>BJ: ??EHTTV E3 ..V +12 193
#note Goodness this is getting crazy. How long can I hold a blank ... and now two blanks ... without bingoing? Missed CHAVETTE (didn't know it), though I did think of CHEVETTE* :). Again I can't find a play that I like. TAV isn't horrible.
>Prashanth_S: AW 2H .AW +18 293
>BJ: ??EHRTT 1A THEaTRi. +83 276
#note Thank goodness Prashanth isn't running away with this, I feel lucky to be only 100 behind. Knowing that I might bingo "any moment now", I knew I could be back in the game. He blocked CHATTERED that I was ready to play, but thankfully I saw THEATRIC. He held it briefly. I didn't see anything to the N in row 15, but there's THIRTEEN and THREATEN, plus some 9-letter -ING words in row 14. I was just happy to make use of the bloody blanks. THEATRIC is the only word ending in C, and the highest-scoring bingo here. Lucky me. Quackle says my win% is below 15% even with that. I figure I have to draw power tiles after this to have a chance, and I see a good spot at 12L ... fingers crossed.
>Prashanth_S: TU B1 .UT +12 305
>BJ: ADETVYZ 1J AVYZED +83 359
#note I was so darn glad that he didn't block the awesome word that I found from 1J that I lost focus. He opened a lane for himself and I should have played my awesome word at A3 instead, duh! Hindsight. Anyway, I was super psyched and felt great about this play. I was still looking ahead, hoping to draw the J for 12L .... Normal Quackle sim says play it at 1J but Championship Player knows better and prefers it at A3, though only barely. ZANY at 12L was what I saw first and is also good, but not as good as the others. In my excitement I forget to add 5 for AW and underscore this play.
>Prashanth_S: AEILNOS A3 ANISOLE +76 381
#note I was feeling great after AVYZED, but only for about 5 seconds. Even so, I had drawn the J and I knew that 12L was still sitting there. Also, even if I had blocked, Prashanth may have found 15B SOLANINE.
>BJ: AAEIJTT 12L JA.E +44 403
#note Aha, so as happy as I was to have the 12L spot, it wasn't the best play. I knew Prashanth had the X, and should've blocked square 6F with 6D TAJ.
>Prashanth_S: APX 6D PAX +35 416
>BJ: AITT 15D TITA. +6 409
#note Luckily I score just barely enough with TITAN to win. I can score a lot more (like 14J GAIT for 21) but then if he goes out he certainly wins. Because of a scoring error I made earlier (underscoring AVYZED by 5) I think this is even closer than it is. I win by two but we do a recount and I win by 7. I consider myself lucky to have eked out the victory in this one.
>BJ: (BCU) +14 423
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