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#player1 donald289 donald289
#player2 skaplan31 Samuel Kaplan
#description Created with Macondo
>donald289: AAIOOTU -AIOOU +0 0
#note Rd 1 Ed Mini 9-8-2021. Looks fine.
>skaplan31: AAAIPRS 8G PA +8 8
#note Pretty much any short play I make will get underlapped easily. Never hurts trying to set up things I have with my move over AA. I could have also exchanged AA.
>donald289: ?AEISTU 9D AUgITES +65 65
#note Nothing is particularly safe for Verna here, 9C AUnTIES is fine.
>skaplan31: AAEIRSZ D8 Z.IRE +48 56
#note Best play.
>donald289: AACEMOT 11B CA.OM +18 83
>skaplan31: AAGHINS 8J AAHING +44 100
#note I did consider this and 10J HA. 10J HA is an easy indicator that I'm close to a bingo, and this is 18 more. The 2 plays colead the sim.
>donald289: AEELNNT M7 L.NEATE +18 101
#note And I gave Verna a bingo as a result which she missed- O3 ENTAN(G)LE for 60.
>skaplan31: AEIJNSW N10 WAINS +51 151
#note Gotta enjoy being offensively defensive. Best move again.
>donald289: DEMNOQS 13A MODS +29 130
>skaplan31: DEHJKNT 10H ETH +33 184
#note This or EDH are fine, I don't see a good K play yet besides K4 KHEDA and B11 CHOKE and there are literally no J plays yet.
>donald289: ENOQTUY J6 QU... +37 167
#note 8A OYEZ is a nice board opening move for her and keeps some nice scoring power.
>skaplan31: DFJKNOT 7I J.N +20 204
#note I did not see 14J FONDS, but that J was becoming annoying to hang onto. So I just wanted to ditch it. Unless she has the last S for the SQUASH hook, she'll have a hard time scoring too without a Row 8 play.
>donald289: BENOOTY B11 .O.EY +20 187
#note 8A OYEZ for her again!
>skaplan31: DDFKORT 15A R.OT +24 228
#note 14J FORDS again!
>donald289: BENOSTY 5J STONY +34 221
#note 8A OYEZ for the 3rd time!
>skaplan31: DDEFKOR N1 DORK. +26 254
>donald289: BCEEGIV 1L VI.E +36 257
#note This time it's not a big mistake for Verna to miss a Z play, it does keep a much clunkier leave.
>skaplan31: DEEFIRW 8A FRI. +48 302
#note 1H REDI(VIDE) is a cool extention, but this is still much better.
>donald289: BBCEGIX 4L BI.E +32 289
#note I really like 3I GIBBER setting up her X. I would not have suspected that she kept the X if she had made that play.
>skaplan31: ADEELRW B2 DRAWLE. +26 328
#note Dang it, I missed 14G LEEWARDS. #visionsad
>donald289: BCEGLOX O13 GOX +39 328
#note I got lucky that Verna would have actually scored more with her X if I had seen the bingo on my previous move. But I wouldn't have known that, I would have been OK with an X move playing underneath LEEWARDS because I would have been up by more.
>skaplan31: AEIILTU A1 TEAL +23 351
#note The game is close enough to where I could use the extra points, but URALITE does go for the blank better despite the 7 point sacrifice.
>donald289: BCDEGLV J5 ......ED +21 349
#note I think Verna would have gotten out of her consonant mess much better with 10C BIDE.
>skaplan31: ?EIIPRU 5B .IPER +20 371
#note So it's pretty clear Verna is consonant heavy. Since I wasn't seeing any bingoes I could possibly draw besides 6A C(L)UmPIER, I felt that outrunning K11 plays was gonna do it for me as that's pretty much all she has, even with some scoring tiles on her rack.
>donald289: BCFGLOV K11 FOB +29 378
#note It's Verna's best move, but she can't win.
>skaplan31: ?INUU 6J .Ua +19 390
#note Nothing I found saved the blank. This is 1 of many wins for me as I can go out with F11 MUNI and I12 UNI which Verna can't block.
>donald289: CGLV E4 V.G +7 385
#note Or CLEG, it nets the same spread.
>skaplan31: INU I12 UNI +8 398
#note A little more stressful than it needed to be, but luckily Verna missed 10C BIDE which pretty much lost the game for her.
>skaplan31: (CL) +8 406
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