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#player1 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
#player2 Karl_Higby Karl Higby
>Jim_Burlant: BEHILMW 8D WHELM +34 34
#note Either this or WIMBLE. WIMBLE has vowel placement issues and gives up a D and S back hooks. This has none of the vowel placement issues and only gives up an S back hook, which is why I chose it. This is best.
>Karl_Higby: CEHIRRT F2 CHERTI.R +71 71
#note This looked like something I should have seen in word study by now, and I hadn't seen it. So I challenged. Unsuccessfully. Turns out I *had* seen it in study before (within the probability range I've studied)...but failed to recognize the phony RETCHIER*, which is what I always see when I see the CEEHIRRT alphagram during a Zyzzyva quiz. <>
>Jim_Burlant: ADIRZ - +0 34
>Karl_Higby: ADIRZ D8 .IZARD +38 109
>Jim_Burlant: AABGIOS C11 BOA +22 56
#note E10 AB scores 5 more but saddles me with the O, and I need to unload the extra vowel. It's either this or E3 ABO/OBA. Any is as good as the other.
>Karl_Higby: DEJ 4D JE.D +24 133
>Jim_Burlant: AAGIINS 6B IGNA.IAS +61 117
#note Only bingo - back up to 33% to win.
>Karl_Higby: DEFINOT -5 +0 133
>Jim_Burlant: AENOOOT 9F .OO +11 128
#note Disappointing that the post-bingo rack didn't give me more opportunity to get back into the game after Karl had to pass 5. Anyway, there are two ways to go about this: either try to score and leave OOT, or fish 2 of my 3 O's off and draw 2 to ATONE. Opting for the latter, I saw this and that was that. 3E OHO scores 2 more and might be a smidgen better. A minor slip, but I did benefit from this in the short term.
>Karl_Higby: DIV I3 VID. +12 145
>Jim_Burlant: AEEFNOT I9 FOE +21 149
#note A little too much rack grooming? E10 ANE/ATE score 9 more but leaves me with the F. Having said that, this isn't bad - even if it opens up plays to H15, this leaves me a juicy AENT. The consolation: he still bingoes here no matter what I do.
>Karl_Higby: BEIRSTU 12G BUSTIER +77 222
#note Only bingo for Karl. He's 78% to win in a short sim.
>Jim_Burlant: AEKMNTX 10H M.XA +36 185
#note A nice problem to have: Lots of good options available. Other options include B9 EXAM and E10 AM. Best of the bunch appears to be MEEK 11H, which would be my choice if I had this to do over.
>Karl_Higby: AY E10 AY +37 259
>Jim_Burlant: AEKNTTU M10 TU.K +16 201
#note A few points left on the table but no really great options. I saw this as a chance to fork the board so he couldn't just shut it down. There's a lot of merit to Quackle's preferred choice of 2B UNTACK: 8 more scoreboard points and, just as important, 2 more tiles turned with both blanks unseen. Not a major slip, but still something that could have been done better.
>Karl_Higby: IQ 13F QI +17 276
>Jim_Burlant: AEELNOT 5I .OE +8 209
#note No 8's play, so the only question to me was, which fish? Quackle prefers I jump into the bag with VOLANTE 3I in order to chase a blank. If UVWY weren't unseen, I might be more amenable to that, unseen blanks or not.
>Karl_Higby: CERW L4 CREW +23 299
>Jim_Burlant: AEILNOT N5 ELATION +67 276
#note Only bingo. Up from 5% winning chances on my previous turn to 20, but still bleak.
>Karl_Higby: DENY O7 DENY +41 340
>Jim_Burlant: ELNOPST B2 POTL.NES +70 346
#note Luck box! It's this or TOPLINES; this is a smidgen better, but really, the difference is style preference. Back to 38%, but realistically: if he's got the blanks, we can assume my winning chances are probably 0.
>Karl_Higby: ??AELPR A8 PALtERs +88 428
>Jim_Burlant: EGIOSUV A1 VOGIE +42 388
#note VOGUE in the same location allows me to go out with IS 14F on the next turn, which loses by 8 fewer points.
>Karl_Higby: AFGNNTU C1 FAT +25 453
>Jim_Burlant: SU 8K US +14 402
#note Maybe this turns out differently if I don't throw away a turn challenging a word I have seen in study before. :-/
>Jim_Burlant: (GNNU) +10 412
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