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#player1 Noah_Walton Noah Walton
#player2 Mack_Meller Mack Meller
>Noah_Walton: ADGIKOR - +0 0
>Mack_Meller: ?ABEHOQ H8 OBEAH +28 28
>Noah_Walton: EIOTUWX I9 OWIE +25 25
>Mack_Meller: ?AIOOOQ -OOOIQ +0 28
>Noah_Walton: AIPSTUX J12 PAX +36 61
>Mack_Meller: ?AGHLNU J3 HAULiNG +68 96
#note MM: Only bingo, but I spent a lot of time here that didn't need to be spent in a 20 minute game. Part of it might be rust, but these type of situations I need to get better about -- it's not like there would possibly be anything better as I knew HANGUL doesn't take an S and there's pretty obviously nothing through the X or ending in the O. So HAULiNG should come down in <30 seconds, not in like 3 minutes which is I think what I spent, especially in a 20 min game.
>Noah_Walton: INNSTTU K13 TUN +14 75
>Mack_Meller: ?ILMRTT 4D ReMITT.L +70 166
>Noah_Walton: AEEINST L1 ETESIAN +86 161
>Mack_Meller: CGIKSTT 1H TICK.T +36 202
>Noah_Walton: DEFMORR E3 R.FORMED +76 237
>Mack_Meller: AEGILSV 13B GLAIVES +85 287
>Noah_Walton: CDEINOO 1H ......ED +45 282
>Mack_Meller: AEGIQYZ 3G QI +44 331
#note MM: Took a long time here to convince myself that both ZIGGY* and ZAGGY* were invalid.
>Noah_Walton: CINOOOR B10 CON.O +28 310
#note Pretty volatile -- I'm not sure I saw TORO, which seems decent with the open G. This seems fine, though.
>Mack_Meller: AEEGNYZ A14 YE +20 351
#note MM: No. One of my biggest misses of the tournament -- ENZYM/ENZYME at 8A. I saw stuff like 12D ZA and 6C GYOZA, and D12 ZANY but really felt CONGOU/CONGOS needed to be blocked with SSUU unseen. Plus YE saves ZA next turn which is fairly unlikely to be blocked. ZANY blocks the CONGO hooks but AGEE is a pretty bad leave especially with a somewhat vowel-heavy pool, I'm confident I average 20 more after YE as opposed to ZANY. Perhaps this is too paranoid, but I think YE is reasonable over the other options I considered. ENZYM/ENZYME are obviously best by a long shot, though. #findinglarge
>Noah_Walton: AILOORS M7 OORALIS +71 381
>Mack_Meller: AADEGNZ L10 ZAG +45 396
#note MM: Or 12D ZA, but 1) the G is the worst tile in Scrabble and 2) I liked turning over another tile to try to get the S or another better scoring tile. Basically a tossup on sim.
>Noah_Walton: EFINRUV F6 FEU +33 414
#note I think I played this pretty fast. Not sure I considered FIVE N12, which could have merit, but this might just be fine.
>Mack_Meller: ADEJNOP N10 PAEON +55 451
#note MM: Gives up the monster S hook, but what else am I going to do given the score and how many points this is. Plus, there's a decent chance Noah doesn't even have the S anyway.
>Noah_Walton: IINRVWY D12 W.VY +34 448
>Mack_Meller: BDDEEJR 9C JE.D +28 479
#note MM: Getting low on time, but I could tell that this followed by O13 BED would win fairly comfortably.
>Noah_Walton: AIINRSU O6 RUINS +30 478
>Mack_Meller: BDER O13 BED +25 504
#note MM: I missed 7B REBRED to go out, but this is enough. #endgamemedium
>Noah_Walton: AI K1 .AI. +16 494
>Noah_Walton: (R) +2 496
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