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#player1 KM Kene Mezue
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>KM: AEILLMT 8G ALLTIME +74 74
#note ~3:00 [~22:00] This match between the top-ranked players of Florida and North Dakota might not mean much, since the stronger ratings of Floridians Ian Weinstein and Ron Tiekert were lapsed as of tourney date, and since KM is actually the only player ranked in North Dakota, but it was fun! Quackle suggests millet 22, then mallei 22, maill 20, mallet 22, but KM wants to play a hyphenated word.
>JJB: ?CEEQSU M7 S.QUEnCE +108 108
#note ~1:00 [~24:00] JJB should rationally say that the high likelihood of alltime* being phony is well worth the slight risk to his own several bingos; in fact, blocking them all requires at least 5 overlaps. But he would rather (a) make the game more enjoyable for a lower-rated player from his wife's home state and (b) ring up another 100-point play. So he irrationally goes with 74-108 rather than 0-90 (cheques d8).
>KM: ADIORU 15K AUDIO +41 115
#note ~2:43 [19:17] KM lays down radio and sensibly changes it to audio. He never does get to use that R.
>JJB: AABERSW 7E WAB +18 126
#note ~4:00 [~20:00] Again on the principle that a good middling letter helps a large bingo leave, aw 18 rates 3.2 better, and awa 21 slightly better.
>KM: AHRW 6F HAW +35 150
#note 0:45 [18:32] Easily advantaged.
>JJB: AEENRSZ E7 .AREZES +38 164
#note ~3:06 [16:54] Solely for the shock value JJB puts down one of the few short words not in the Collins dictionary, the ostensible plural of a plural. KM holds awhile and recalls that warez is already a plural form but remembers the American entry correctly. Razees d2 39 uses the same tiles, but the simple razee 8a 50 yields 22.5 more in evaluation, which JJB is throwing to the winds for cheap thrills.
>KM: DGIRU 11I GUID. +14 164
#note 4:47 [13:45] Declining to open at 12a for 18 (or 20 for guider).
>JJB: EGIINPT D12 PING +28 192
#note 0:52 [16:02] No qualms about opening, even as pig d12 22 has it beat by 3.1 on much superior leave.
>KM: BELOR 15D .LOBE +24 188
#note 1:22 [12:23] On the principle that a parallel often beats a triple, lobe c11 29 is superior. Conglobe is valid.
>JJB: EIJOTTY J10 J.TTY +39 231
#note 1:28 [14:34] Quackle prefers jot c11 31, but only by .1, and jutty is so pat as to draw a challenge anyway.
>KM: R - +0 188
#note 0:10 [12:13] KM takes the bait after all the talk of challenges. It won't be the last.
>JJB: AEHIOOS F10 HAE +43 274
#note 1:12 [13:22] Clear point grab.
>KM: R -7 +0 188
#note 0:45 [11:28] KM decides to start fresh, not even keeping bingo-prone tiles.
>JJB: DIOOOSV 5H OVOID +23 297
#note 1:03 [12:19] Welcoming the opportunity to continue rack balance. The showoff play is voodoo o10, 10 evaluation points behind.
>KM: DEEIMNT C6 ENDTIME +68 256
>KM: DEEIMNT -- -68 188
#note 1:13 [10:15] KM draws a bingo out of the bag, but it's not what he thinks it is: it's dementi n1 76 (69.1 ahead of passing). He has tried to play the hyphenated time compound once again and JJB is not going to permit it now. After the game the players joke about how frequent the term is in Christianity, although it has not made the dictionaries in closed form.
>JJB: AELNOPS 14F PAN +27 324
#note 2:52 [9:27] JJB has seen the Spanish duo espanol/nopales before, which play in four ways starting with c7 88 (49.6 diff). Espanol probably comes to mind but is dismissed. Po c13 20 and pa 14f 24 are better-balanced leaves, and panel c9 32 is more points.
>KM: EM C12 EM +24 212
#note 0:49 [9:26] Now fishing begins in earnest, but the blank is not held yet.
>JJB: EGILOSS 13G GO +16 340
#note 2:15 [7:12] Glioses d1 79 (43.8 diff)!
>KM: CDEIKNT 4C TICKED +39 251
#note 0:17 [9:09] Notes are that KM laid down tined 4d first. Given that, kinda 8a 36 rates 1.6 better.
>JJB: EILRSST B2 LISTERS +82 422
#note 1:27 [5:45] JJB finally finds a bingo he knows, with the benefit of a hook he knows that KM doesn't. Much better than playing it safe with slitters 68.
>KM: EFIN - +0 251
#note 0:26 [8:43] KM loses another challenge.
>JJB: AFOORRU A6 FOUR +34 456
#note 0:58 [4:47]
>KM: EFIN L1 FINE. +26 277
#note 0:12 [8:31]
>JJB: AORRTXY A1 RAX +41 497
#note 0:57 [3:50] What about foxy 51 (9.6 diff) and onyx 48? Or, not to empty the bag, ex 36?
>KM: ?AEINNR 2G ARsIN.NE +68 345
>KM: ?AEINNR -- -68 277
#note 6:47 [1:46] After much thought KM lays down ar?inine and JJB figures the gig is up. But then KM designates as S, probably thinking of asinine. Sorry, but it won't stay that way. JJB later lists the bingos: sirenian/arginine 68, triennia 59.
>JJB: NOORTVY 2K V.NY +20 517
#note ~0:25 [~3:25] JJB challenges within 14 seconds. Providentially, the best block and best overall play, along with a potential out, is simple; tivy 20 was declined because of lack of out. However, both players have synergy interest in not going out. KM's immediate top scoring options after viny 20 include stare 40, foot 28 (not toro/roto 8), in 19, rem 5+2, which nets -4 to JJB; so does stane 40, foot 28, rink 10+2 (or holding R for in 19, rem 5+2). KM's block, aliner 28, tort 17, fern 7+2, nets 0 to JJB, so is not as useful to KM.
>KM: ?AEINNR 1L .EAR +28 305
#note 0:14 [1:32] As noted, stare/stane yield net 24 to KM (thus viny 20 is -4 to JJB). KM's actual play nets only 14.
>JJB: OORT N4 TORO +8 525
#note ~1:33 [1:52]
>JJB: (INN?) +6 531
#note A wide selection of humor, phonies, and unexpected play mark this game, where both players missed multiple difficult bingos. KM's first phony being accepted may have contributed to his later rash of zero scores, and certainly JJB could play more harshly. Points improvable based on tiles played: JJB 1, KM 19. Points improvable based on values: JJB 131.9.
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