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#player1 JJB John J. Bulten
#player2 EA Elspeth Abbate
>JJB: EIMORTZ 8G ZIT +24 24
#note 2:06 [22:54] JJB once challenged off mortize* because the opponent forgot which spelling of amortise was the hook.
>EA: DEESX J8 SEXED +42 42
#note 0:37 [24:23] Work those anagrams. Desex j6 46.
>JJB: AEMMORR G5 MOM.ER +23 47
#note 3:12 [19:42] Partly played for novelty, partly for turnover. But 4-overlaps are just as novel: tremor i8 29 rates 4.9 ahead.
>EA: FI K10 IF +29 71
#note 0:41 [23:42]
>JJB: ACIRSTU 5E CU. +14 61
#note 3:57 [15:45] Various attempts find no bingos but certainty is not achieved. Quackle recommends curia h1 28 for the points, 3.5 diff; cauris/momzers 36 is close behind. JJB elects the best fish.
>EA: GLP F3 PL.G +18 89
#note 0:55 [22:47]
>JJB: AAINRST 11A ANTIARS +84 145
#note 1:39 [14:06] Most of this time was spent looking for a better one when this is the clear leader despite setup. Simulation is inconclusive.
>EA: NOV A8 NOV. +21 110
#note 1:31 [21:16]
>JJB: ABBOTVW B6 AVOW +19 164
#note 3:07 [10:59] Drawing abbot against Abbate. Surprisingly barbot f9 22 (VW, -10.3) is 1.5 better than avow b6 19 (BBT, -8.8). BB looks deceptively easy to deal with.
>EA: EHIL C3 ELHI +16 126
#note 0:51 [20:25] Missing lithe/owl 25.
>JJB: BBCIPTY D9 PY.C +22 186
#note 1:27 [9:32] JJB wastefully misses the ef hook (typic 36, a clear choice with 16.6 diff), but picks it up later.
>EA: JOT 4A JO.T +38 164
#note 0:24 [20:01] EA keeps remarkably even for playing no bingos.
>JJB: BBEIOOT B1 BOB. +20 206
#note 0:43 [8:49] JJB jumps at the B dump. Boobie/bootie are not going down.
>EA: ?DEGNU 1B .UNGlED +33 197
#note 1:47 [18:16] EA burns the first blank for 33. This word and its anagram are the best blank plays given these letters, but about 15 points behind desexed and unsexed. JJB shakes his head.
>JJB: DEIOTTY L11 TOYED +28 234
#note 1:00 [7:49] Best hotspot again.
>EA: KNU 15L .UNK +27 224
#note 1:06 [17:10] EA responds with similar score and clock pressure.
>JJB: ADEINTU 2H AUDIENT +77 311
#note 0:36 [7:13] Great, a tisane singular, thinks JJB as he begins to pull away; but it's not over.
>EA: AEFR 1L FEAR +46 270
#note 1:25 [15:45] With JJB having only one bingo choice, EA has a massive response.
>JJB: AEHRRST M5 RATHERS +69 380
#note 1:13 [6:00] Correct mnemonic is trasher: cuish. Somewhere JJB thought he saw an anagram of trasher. The simple 5-overlap hates 3i 50 gets him what he needs. But his chutzpah is rewarded with 20.6 additional value points.
>EA: OO 8M .OO +18 288
#note 1:15 [14:30]
>JJB: ?AGIQRW N12 WAR. +14 394
#note ~4:00 [~2:00] JJB knows he can wait on the Q, with 3 spots available before using the blank; but this calls for finding the W hook of efts: wig i11 23, worth 16.1 more than the pedestrian play warn. War at i11 is 7 more.
>EA: AEILLNS 13A AINSELL +78 366
#note 1:11 [13:19] EA can risk a phony bingo hook now, seeing as JJB just got credit for his phony. Hers is 32.5 ahead of the pack (the best fish is lefts 11i 8) and JJB has 2 minutes to grapple with the question.
>JJB: ?AEGIIQ E8 QI +15 409
#note ~1:31 [0:29] JJB is not in endgame mode because he is arguing with himself over whether spicy has an anagram (it doesn't). He needs the highest play after subtracting leave: qadi l4 29. Instead he thinks the blank still has some use on his rack.
>EA: EI F13 .EI +5 371
#note 1:01 [12:18] 1 behind rile f11 6. Much closer score than without EA's risk-taking.
>EA: (AEGI?) +10 381
#note Was this game "marred" by two phonies or did each player get cleverness points for outsmarting the other? Psychologically, people tend to apologize for phonies because they are often unintentional (and hardly ever provable otherwise), and unintended successes feel unearned. Does this mean we should only be proud of phonies when we know they are nondictionary*? Points improvable based on tiles played: EA 14, JJB 23. Points improvable based on values: JJB 58.6.
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