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#player1 Ben_Schoenbrun Ben Schoenbrun
#player2 Mina Mina
>Ben_Schoenbrun: AAINTTX 8F ANTITAX +94 94
>Ben_Schoenbrun: EEIOSTT (challenge) +5 99
>Mina: DEGIQRV 7I QI +44 44
#note There probably won't be much to discuss in this game -- Bnjy said he never spent more than about ten seconds on each move -- but I wanted to Quackle all five of my losses in this eight-game tournament, so let's check it out.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: EEIOSTT G3 TEOSI.TE +61 160
>Mina: DEGHRVW F10 HEW +30 74
#note Best play would have been WHERV(E) at either 10B or 4B, but I didn't know the word. VERG(E)D or GR(O)VED are also recommended, but I didn't know those either.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: DEEHMU L7 E.HUMED +40 200
>Mina: DGRRSVW -DGRVW +0 74
#note Huh! Quackle prefers VR(O)W or even VR(O)WS (?!!!) rather than exchanging.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: DGIL H1 GLID +31 231
>Mina: EIPRSTY M1 PYRITES +79 153
#note I saw "stripey" as well, but it didn't play, and I wouldn't have been sure of it. There turns out to be an eight available, PERSEITY, which I didn't know. Fortunately PYRITES scores 9 more anyway.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: CKOW E11 WOCK +41 272
>Ben_Schoenbrun: ?EEGINR (challenge) +5 277
>Mina: EEFIMNR D6 FIREMEN +94 247
#note I laughed out loud in delight when I found this. It's one of those racks I haven't studied, so it was purely up to my anagramming ability.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: ?EEGINR 1A GREEtIN. +80 357
>Mina: DIINSUV 1M .IU +15 262
#note I didn't consider the surprisingly lucrative 44-point 15A DIVIS, as I was so bent on keeping the S since I was down by so much. Quackle's other top choice is M12 DIVI for 25 keeping NSU, which I don't much like as it all but kills the bingo lane on column N. My play is nowhere on Quackle's radar. Most of its top choices keep the U. Lesson: don't be so scared of the U.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: OZ 6J ZO +63 420
#note Luckbox.
>Mina: DEINOSV 11J VO. +16 278
#note Quackle thinks I should, again, take the 15A spot already, rather than keep saving the S for a bingo. I guess the idea is that I'm never going to win at this point (15A DEVOS or DOVES offers a win percentage of 0.59%), so I should just score and cut down on spread.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: ALSUV 15A ULVAS +41 461
#note He takes the spot that I maybe should have taken.
>Mina: ?DEINOS O1 .NSOIlED +77 355
#note But miraculously I did draw a third bingo. Surprisingly, C3 iONISED would have scored eight points more -- I didn't even look there (four overlaps!!) or do the math.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: BNRT 10K B.RNT +13 474
>Mina: AAABDNP L2 BAP +31 386
#note Highest-scoring was H10 PANADA but I didn't know that word.
>Ben_Schoenbrun: ACFLRY 3C CRAF..LY +34 508
#note Nice board vision!!
>Mina: AADEGNO O10 .OGAED +30 416
>Mina: ANO (challenge) +5 421
>Ben_Schoenbrun: JU 5K JU. +46 554
#note Nice fit/vision.
>Mina: ANO E3 .NOA +13 434
>Mina: (AALOR) +10 444
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