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#player1 Ryan_Fischer Ryan Fischer
#player2 Bruce_Shuman Bruce Shuman
>Ryan_Fischer: AADFLLO 8H ALLOD +16 16
#note Keep the F for scoring, dump the two Ls.
>Bruce_Shuman: INOW 9F WINO +14 14
>Ryan_Fischer: ADFGTTU 7K DAFT +18 34
#note FUGATO (didn't know) and FAGOT aren't as defensive as I'd like.
>Bruce_Shuman: ?AHINRS N1 HAIRNe.S +70 84
#note 6F HeRNIAS 77
>Ryan_Fischer: EEGOTUU 1K OUG.T +30 64
>Bruce_Shuman: AOV O8 OVA +24 108
>Ryan_Fischer: AEEEEUY 4L EE.Y +22 86
#note Gotta sacrifice to dump that extra vowel, hope things balance out.
>Bruce_Shuman: GIOY N10 YOGI +29 137
>Ryan_Fischer: AAEEISU F8 A.E +8 94
#note Now say "doh." Er... "EAU"... yeah, EAU is better. That's the ticket.
>Bruce_Shuman: EINP 14L PINE +30 167
>Ryan_Fischer: AEGIOSU 11C AGUE +17 111
#note Don't see anything too much better, save GOUGE... maybe.
>Bruce_Shuman: CEIV B11 VICE +27 194
#note Of course he has the V. :)
>Ryan_Fischer: IKOOSSZ 5H ZOOKS +38 149
#note ZOOKS! Always wanted to play that. Missed it for 5 more hooking PINE, but I needed that spot for later.
>Bruce_Shuman: LOPT H1 PLOT. +51 245
#note Ow.
>Ryan_Fischer: DEIINST 15H TINEIDS +95 244
#note Yay!
>Bruce_Shuman: EJL 2F JE.L +27 272
#note He hoped I didn't have an O. Ys gone.
>Ryan_Fischer: BIMNRRX 3L BR.M +32 276
#note Saw BRIM in two other spots before I found this happy little play.
>Bruce_Shuman: ESW 15B SEW +20 292
>Ryan_Fischer: BINQRTX 14I QI +28 304
#note Save the X; I'm going for EX or XU, forming KUDO!
>Bruce_Shuman: FUU 12L FU.U +18 310
>Ryan_Fischer: ABENRTX 6I EX +52 356
#note Yay! (He WOULD happen to have BOTH of the Us I needed for the better play.)
>Bruce_Shuman: AHMR 13B .HARM +24 334
#note Win this game. My big mistake thus far is probably trying to play through too many vowel-heavy racks, but I've done an okay job of hanging in there. Now, I've gotta shut down the three lanes left whilst making it as hard as possible to bingo through what I leave. So, since there are two left in the bag, any one-tile play I make has to block and give me a good chance to counter if he does bingo. If I make a longer play, it has to kill all lanes and constrict as much as possible. I first wanted to play BRANT for 16 vertically which turns out IS the best play. The only other possibility is BRAN(T) for 14, which kills all three lanes left. Only problem is it creates one more I considered, but didn't think it was very easy to hit -- through the B. Anyone got any other bright ideas? Facing down at LEAST ANTISER(A) and INTERAC(T), I don't see anything else, and Quackle sure doesn't. That all depends on whether Bruce will find those. He's more prone to finding "actual" words than "Scrabble" words, as this game will demonstrate.
>Ryan_Fischer: ABDNRRT 4D BRAN. +14 370
>Bruce_Shuman: ?ACEENT D2 CA.ErNET +62 396
#note And sure enough, he's got it. The *only* bingo, well-deserved win. (*cries*)
>Bruce_Shuman: (DIRRT) +12 408 |
