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#player1 whatnoloan whatnoloan
#player2 MsSpeller MsSpeller
>whatnoloan: AEKOSVX - +0 0
#note This is my second game against MsSpeller from Bonnyclabbers Tournament #3. Posted mainly for the pre-endgame and endgame. Quackle isn't much help here, so I'd be happy to hear about anything I missed or mis-analyzed. MsSpeller was assigned first player.
>MsSpeller: AAHPS 8D HAASP +28 28
>whatnoloan: AEKOSVX 9C VOX +31 31
>MsSpeller: FORTY 7C TYFRO +40 68
>whatnoloan: AAAEEKS 6F KEEA +38 69
>MsSpeller: EINZ 7I ZEIN +44 112
>whatnoloan: AAEINOS 8A ANE.....S +60 129
>MsSpeller: DEIIO L7 .DOEII +18 130
>whatnoloan: ADIORUU M6 UDOIA +34 163
>MsSpeller: AIILL K10 LALII +19 149
>whatnoloan: AERRRSU J4 URR. +17 180
>MsSpeller: DEFIW 15K FWIDE +57 206
>whatnoloan: ?AEERRS J9 REREsSA +90 270
#note Wasn't sure of WAIFED.
>MsSpeller: DEGJU 5E UEJDG. +66 272
>whatnoloan: CEINOUV N8 CNVUEIO. +119 389
>MsSpeller: EPTTY O4 YPTTE +63 335
>whatnoloan: BLMNNOT M4 LO.....NTM +44 433
>MsSpeller: ?BINOTT A1 NTOBsTI. +86 421
>whatnoloan: ABELMNQ 4I E.QA.B. +57 490
#note So it looks like her only bingo available before I play is WARTHOGS. I think I just have to accept losing to that. If I try to block, I think I get outscored way too often. So instead I should look to score. I think I should play off the Q. I can do ANMLBEU 4D for 76, but that seems like it would lose to most Q sticks -- she blocks QIS and slow plays me. During the game, I wasn't sure which of the row 4 Q plays to make, but I missed a strong option: some permutation of LAMBREQUIN on row 11! It seems like I will win if I go out before her after LAMBREQUIN. No matter what permutation of it I play, I have a guaranteed out except in the cases AH, AW, CW, OW. By placing the B somewhere besides I11, I have a guaranteed out with the AW draw. If I play LMBEQRAINU, I think I win with an OW draw, because I have WEAPON and WOMAN to go out, and she can't block both very well. The CW and AH draws also look like wins, though they don't seem to allow me to go out. If my analysis is correct, LMBEQRAINU wins 17/18 of the time, and that is the best I can do. Edit: After writing up this analysis, I finally notice REJUDGE (could LMEBIN be equal to LAMBREQUIN? It sets up (UM)Q(L)AY! But it seems to lose if I draw GG, as she has OCSWH + GAZSAR to win), and then notice that I can just play off the Q for 21. It seems like she can outscore me in a lot of cases if I do that, though. So LAMBREQUIN still holds up so far.
>MsSpeller: ACGHORW N1 ROA.CH +63 484
#note I don't see a way for MsSpeller to win here. I have SLIMMINGs, which I basically immediately discarded as being implausible, even though it's good. But even if I don't see that, I can try NOMINALISED (which I was thinking of, and unsure of) if she does something like ORBCH.
>whatnoloan: GLMNS 3L MS. +42 532
>MsSpeller: GW 3A .GW +14 498
>MsSpeller: (GLN) +8 506
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