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#player1 Ayotunde_Adeyeri Ayotunde Adeyeri
#player2 Mina Mina
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: EHNOT 8D HOTEN +24 24
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: IIIIUUU (challenge) +5 29
>Mina: FNRRTUU 7G FUR +22 22
#note I remember wishing FURN were good. Turns out that FURR is good, but FUR still sims better, due to the synergy of NRTU.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: IIIIUUU -IIUUU +0 29
>Mina: ENOPRTU 7D UP +13 35
#note I'm surprised that OUP sims above UP, as ENORT looks like a better-balanced leave than ENRT.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: IIUVVWW -IUVVW +0 29
>Mina: AEKNORT 6H ROK +22 57
#note My play sims fifth-best. Quackle says that if you're going to fish, C6 KO is the way to go, which I probably didn't see. I still think ROK for 22 leaving AENT is better than KO for 13 leaving AENRT, though: you score so much more. The top-simming move is POOKA, a word I didn't know.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AEHT K5 HEAT +22 51
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AEGO (challenge) +5 56
#note Turns out HEAT played for 29 points at 9G, whereas he only scored 22 for it at the K5 position...but then he earned five more points, since I didn't recognize ROKE, so it was almost a wash.
>Mina: ADEENOT 9F ODE +21 78
#note The top-simming play is a double-double NA(PO)OED for 40, which would have been near impossible to see even if I'd known the word. Second-highest-simming is L5 ODEA, but given that I didn't know ROKE, I certainly wouldn't have known it was a verb.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AEGO 8K .OGAE +21 77
>Mina: AENPRTT 10C TRAP +23 101
#note On my scoresheet, I wrote speculatively, "entrapt?" Turns out REPTANT is a word, but who knew? Next-highest-simming are plays that back-hook ROKE with an R, but who would've known that ROKE took an -R? After that, Quackle likes 6D PAT for 20 or C2 ENTRAP for 32, neither of which I saw.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AAEILST 11E ASTELIA +88 165
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AAEILST -- -88 77
>Mina: DEILMNT 11E MILD +28 129
#note Mine is the top-simming play, although runner-up LI(PO)M(A) is super darn cute, given that I cut those things out of people at work.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AAEILST H11 .EALT +21 98
#note Quackle strongly favors fishing off two tiles for a MUCH lower score.
>Mina: AENRTUV O1 AVENTUR. +86 215
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AIMRSZ 12A MIRZA +43 141
#note L1 ZIRAM would have scored 59 (and L1 ZIRAMS would have scored 70), but that would have been darn hard to see!!
>Mina: CDEEILS C1 DECILES +78 293
#note Didn't know its anagram DELICES.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: ?DENOSW A7 WoODS.EN +89 230
#note Beautiful find by Ayo. Alternative bingos available included SWOrD(M)EN, SNOWDo(M)E, (D)OWNSiDE, etc.
>Mina: AGJNOOY G13 JA +36 329
#note I wrote on my scoresheet, "django?" since my bun is a programmer. It would've scored big! Totally missed the best possible play, 1A GA(D)JO for 66, which hurts baaaad.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: ?IILNSV M2 VeILIN.S +76 306
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: BII (challenge) +5 311
#note Highest-scoring is a gorgeously fitting L4 VISI(O)NaL, which I wouldn't have known. For the third time this game, and not the last time, Ayo plays a word I don't know and gets 5 extra points.
>Mina: AGNOOTY B4 GAY +33 362
#note I wasn't a huge fan of keeping two O's. Turns out I should have played 1A TO(D)Y to accomplish that.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: BII 1A BI.I +24 335
>Mina: BENOOQT 4L Q. +22 384
#note Easy best move.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: FI C12 .IF +12 347
#note The same two letters would have scored 23 points at I13, though that play isn't easy to spot.
>Mina: BENNOOT F14 BO +21 405
#note Mine is the top-simming move. My win percentage is listed as 91% at this point, so what went wrong?
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: AW I12 AW +28 375
#note Again not easy to see at all, but the same two tiles would have scored five points more if played at N2!
>Mina: EENNOOT D4 NE +15 420
#note Pre-endgame turning point. As I pondered this move, there were two tiles left in the bag, and the unseen pool was CEGIRSUXY. It's not that I didn't score enough here; the top-simming moves are D4 OE for 15 and J3 NOOK for 13, and I scored 15 with a play that ranks nowhere among the top fifteen plays. What went wrong? I saw there were no spots for X-bombs, so it's not that. None of the six top-simming moves play off only one tile in order to leave one tile in the bag, so it's not that.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: CEIRSUX E5 EX.. +34 409
#note EXPO is indeed his highest-scoring play, and allows him to go out in two. Quackle Championship Player favors playing J10 CURSI *first*, leaving EX to go out in multiple spots. Quackle also quotes Ayo a 0.00% win percentage here, no matter what he does, which means I proceeded to throw a sure win in the trash.
>Mina: EGNOOTY L8 .OGENY +22 442
#note AND NOW I KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG. Fatally distracted by the fact that I almost had ONTOGENY, all I could see after that was OOGENY. I FAILED TO ASK MYSELF WHETHER HE COULD GO OUT WITH HIS REMAINING TILES SO THAT I COULD BLOCK IT. ELEMENTARY MISTAKE!!! Because even though I didn't know CURSI, I sure knew CUIRS. Quackle confirms that my win percentage is 100% if I play on column J, and 0% if I don't. Oh the failure. It is my first time losing to the 1052-rated Ayo that day, but not even the last.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: CIRSU J10 CURSI +32 441
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: (challenge) +5 446
#note Whoa, ignore my earlier comment, turns out CUIRS* isn't a word. (I guess I was thinking of the French word for leather.) CURSI is the only out he's got. Fourth time this game that he's played a word unfamiliar to me. Well done, well won.
>Ayotunde_Adeyeri: (OT) +4 450
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