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#player1 Sue_Tremblay Sue Tremblay
#player2 Mina Mina
>Sue_Tremblay: BCHOT 8D BOTCH +30 30
>Mina: BEENORU F6 BU.EO +15 15
#note Oh good heavens, I missed BOUN(T)REE. I've only seen it once or twice and not since last summer, when I managed to see all the sevens and eights up through 2800 probability range. My play of BU(T)EO sims next best.
>Sue_Tremblay: ADGY G8 .ADGY +19 49
>Mina: AEEHNQR 12C HENR. +22 37
#note Quack prefers 12D HER(Y)E for 24 keeping ANQ, which looks familiar but which I wouldn't say I really knew. My play sims four points behind that but doesn't feel terrible.
>Sue_Tremblay: AMX 13B MAX +43 92
>Mina: AEFIQVY 14A QI +30 67
#note Quack wisely prefers 11B FAVE for 43 because it knows there's no rush to dump QI, which plays in more than one place on the next turn. Lesson: don't just reflexively dump the Q ASAP.
>Sue_Tremblay: I A14 .I +33 125
>Mina: AEFLTVY 11A FLAY +29 96
#note FAVE is still best -- I wonder why I don't see it -- too eager to not lose both of my vowels, perhaps? A score of 43 is too good to pass up. I realize now that keeping the Y is favored because BOTCHY is a word. I hadn't known it for sure.
>Sue_Tremblay: JOW B8 JOW. +22 147
>Mina: DEERTTV 6F .REVET +13 109
#note I'm remembering playing BREVET in my last game, which is why it's so prominent in my mind now. Quack prefers 9A V(O)TE or A9 DE(F)T even though it's a closed board. I much prefer opening the board at this point because I'm behind.
>Sue_Tremblay: GLNOU H1 LOUNG. +24 171
#note Oops, looks like we both misscored my last play as 14 even though I now see it was 13.
>Mina: AADDNRT 5J DART +17 126
#note Quack likes 2H (O)NDATRA, I guess because it accelerates tile turnover with both blanks unseen. Next best is 5J DAD keeping ANRT, which makes sense because it sets up a (DAD)A hook.
>Sue_Tremblay: ILTZ 11G .LITZ +30 201
>Mina: AADENPS 4K PA +17 143
#note Quackle doesn't like my move -- it prefers 12K APNEA for 27 -- but I strongly disagree. I'm far enough behind that I NEED to keep the best possible believe in order to bingo ASA, and the best possible leave is ADENS with an S hook on column N and plenty of eights available up top.
>Sue_Tremblay: KNR 2G N.RK +18 219
>Mina: ADEINST N5 SAINTED +68 211
#note Oops the highest-scoring bingo was M2 INS(T)ATED for 11 points more. Rookie mistake and the same type of mistake as I made in the last game, taking a cheap seven when a slightly-difficult-to-see higher-scoring eight was available.
>Sue_Tremblay: AENR O7 NEAR +24 243
>Mina: ?CEFGIT 3L GIFT +20 231
#note Dear god, I missed all of the bingoes through the N on row 4, including the easy find FETChING (which turns out to have the bizarre anagram FEChTING, which looks like a typo). Don't know how to explain such blindness. Also, if I was gonna play GIFT, it scores more at M10 aaaaand sets up a bingo lane I need. Completely botched turn here.
>Sue_Tremblay: AIO O1 IO.A +15 258
>Mina: ?CEIMSV 4D VIME. +20 251
#note My play sims second-best after (R)EV, which is blatantly better because I need more bingo lanes, and because playing elsewhere keeps the -I(N)g possibilities open. God I'm playing this game so poorly.
>Sue_Tremblay: EE 12K EE +15 273
>Mina: ?CEESSU H10 E.S +21 272
#note Quack prefers (YEX)ES, presumably because it opens two lanes, and what am I doing flailing around with a blank and a point deficit this late in the game and not opening lanes?!
>Sue_Tremblay: OO N1 OO. +18 291
#note Sue continues to suffer from an excess of vowels.
>Mina: ?CELOSU D6 CU. +7 279
#note There was a bingo available on row 13, OCELlUS (that's a lower-case L), but I didn't know it. Next best according to Quackle is K9 OU(ZE)L, again because it makes a lane and I need a lane! I'm putting all of my eggs in the basket of a bingo on row 13: why?
>Sue_Tremblay: EIPRW 13I WIPER +44 335
>Mina: ?DELOSS 14E gODLESS +85 364
#note Well, sometimes you luck out despite poor poor play.
>Mina: (?AINU) +8 372
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