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#player1 Dan_P. Dan P.
#player2 Brad_W. Brad W.
>Dan_P.: HKNTU 8H THUNK +34 34
#note I wasn't sure of this but I didn't hold. Wonder if it takes the S? or is it a past tense of THINK?
>Brad_W.: DEEEMUW K7 U.MEWED +26 26
>Dan_P.: ADIP J10 PADI +34 68
>Brad_W.: AELTTVX L10 TAX +53 79
>Dan_P.: AGPS M5 GAPS +23 91
#note sure I guess it takes the S
>Brad_W.: DEEILTV 13I D..IE +29 108
#note this was a dangerous play because I didn't know what DIDIE meant. It had the look of an adjective for some reason (it's not... it's a noun and takes the S).
>Dan_P.: ALNOT L2 TONAL +15 106
#note does that take a front A?
>Brad_W.: ELORTVW N3 VROW +36 144
#note REVOW* would have been huge but I talked myself out of it (thankfully so)
>Dan_P.: AABIL 1K LABIA +31 137
#note I guess it does take the front A. I held. It looked like a normal word from real life, but I remember there being a similar word that I thought would take the front A but doesn't. I didn't realize until just a few minutes ago that the word I was trying to think of was VOCAL (AVOCAL* is not a word).
>Brad_W.: EILRSTZ O6 SIZER +49 193
#note 2J ZI(T)34 might be better but I wanted to take out the triple
>Dan_P.: ?FIORST 14D FORTIeS +75 212
>Brad_W.: FLNOOTY D11 TOF.Y +36 229
#note at first I was disappointed I didn't have a hook letter to use the TWS in the corner. Then I saw I had 15G OF 32 but the LNOTY leave didn't inspire me. Then I saw an even better play.
>Dan_P.: BCHI - +0 212
#note and he challenged!
>Brad_W.: ELLNOOO 9G LOO +13 242
#note rack cleanup time
>Dan_P.: BCHI 11B BI.CH +24 236
>Brad_W.: AEEELNO 15A EEL. +21 263
>Dan_P.: ?EQT C9 Qu.TE +58 294
>Brad_W.: AEEINNO 15F EON +19 282
#note 15G ONE 20 scores 1 more point
>Dan_P.: GN L10 ....NG +16 310
>Brad_W.: AEIMNVY 15L .YVE +33 315
#note I was going to play 14A MY 28 but he gave me a better play
>Dan_P.: RU B13 RU. +12 322
>Brad_W.: AEGIJMN K1 .EG +9 324
#note I had a stroke of brilliance here. OK maybe not but it was the type of strategic move I don't make very often. I was going to play something safe like O12 JAN(E) 19. There were 7 tiles in the bag and it was probably a good idea to get rid of the J soon. Then I started thinking, he's fishing, but is he fishing because the board sucks and he has no tiles, or is he fishing because he might be close to a bingo? Bingoing to the N (or maybe the T) wouldn't be unheard of. So I looked for a play in that spot. The play I decided on set me up for a huge J play that could be blocked by him, but not for a lot of points (which is good because I was scoring virtually nothing myself). Also, if he somehow comes up with a 5-letter play for that spot, he would empty the bag giving me a chance to plan an endgame.
>Dan_P.: AADIN J2 NAIAD +21 343
#note sure enough, he emptied the bag
>Brad_W.: AIJMNRS 11I J...NS +16 340
#note I had a lot of time so I considered this play very carefully. I wanted to play D6 RAMI 20 but that gave me only one out, J(A)MS through the A I just played, which would be blocked. RANI in the same spot is not any better. I decided to play JNS first, leaving RAMI as the out play. It would be blocked, in which case I would play 5F MARI(A) 7 to go out. I looked at his potential plays. I saw D7 REI 15 which appeared to lose by 1. At first I thought 9A RO(Q)UE 14 tied, but then I realized I had RAMI(E) to the E he would play to go out. I didn't see any winning plays for him so I made my play. Turns out I missed a few high-scoring J plays like 5E JARIN(A) 26 and H4 JANI(TO)R 22/JANI(TO)RS 23.
>Dan_P.: CEEIORU D7 REI +15 358
#note during his turn, I was frantically recounting the game to make sure there were no scoring errors that would affect the outcome. I was pretty low on time by this point.
>Brad_W.: AIMR 5F MARI. +7 347
>Brad_W.: (CEOU) +12 359
#note he recounted but I felt confident everything was correct
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