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#player1 Josh Josh
#player2 Joey Joey
>Josh: ILNORRT -LR +0 0
#note again seems like potentially a substandard opening exchange, but I think it's right.
>Joey: ADGOOSU 8F UDO +8 8
>Josh: INOOORT 9F TORO +14 14
#note Ah, I7 ONO is the play probably. Tilt miss. #findingsmall
>Joey: ABGORSW 7F BAG +21 29
>Josh: ?AFINOR 6E OAF +24 38
#note #knowledgesaddest for INsOFAR. One day I'll stop missing bingos. This felt like I was back to square one. But wait, it gets better (worse)
>Joey: ELORRSW 5C ROW +22 51
>Josh: ?DEEINR B1 ENERgID +74 112
#note I had spent probably half my time at the point of making this play. But I just couldn't spot REIGNED. Again, I felt like I was falling into my old patterns this game and couldn't escape. No excuses. Couldn't even spot DE(R)INgER or anything that didn't open a 3x3 or score too low. I knew this was wrong but my time was ticking so fast. #findingsaddest
>Joey: AELORRS 1A R.LEASOR +131 182
#note Scored as 122. I forgot that I used an existing DLS.
>Josh: AGIIMOY A7 IMAGO +27 139
#note first instance of not being able to play by far the best play of GOYIM*. MAYO was considered, GAMY, everything was awful. #questionable
>Joey: ACDEEUX C1 .AXE. +46 228
#note Another 2015 word slips through the cracks, as LUXER became valid that year.
>Josh: BEILNYY B9 YIN +20 159
#note failed to see INBYE on my rack. I knew this also had to be wrong #findinglarge
>Joey: ?CDEUUV 4A C..D +26 254
>Josh: BEHLSTY 2E THY +37 196
>Joey: ?DESUUV -UUV +0 254
>Josh: BELNNSS I7 SN.B +20 216
>Joey: ?ADEISZ 11G AsSIZED +89 343
>Joey: ?ADEISZ -- -89 254
#note I guess this needs a third S? Neither of my challenged off phonies so far this year drew a courtesy hold. Any sucker knows that this is the only SIZE word that is not a verb or an adjective.
>Josh: AEFKLNS 11E FLAKS +31 247
#note not sure how to sim this, since I don't think Joey is playing SIZED/SNOB next. Probably ZEDAS/SNOB, although maybe with the unseen I's he'll choose Quackle's static simulated choice? Regardless, I just don't think C8 KEF ever works, even though I know I don't need to try and block SNOBS necessarily. I was hoping he'd play ZA/FA and I could somehow stay alive after that. #questionable
>Joey: ?ADEISZ 12B SIZE +38 292
>Josh: EEEIJNV H11 .EEVE +39 286
#note well, just have to hope he doesn't get there now.
>Joey: ?ADEGIT 14F DI.aGATE +70 362
>Josh: AIJLNQU M11 JAN. +22 308
#note Had no ideas here. No clue at all. Thought I could sneak at 15A Q play in some lines, but maybe I'm better off trying to outrun with the J? In any case, JIL(T) seems to be the slightly better version of JAN(E), though it makes it really hard to open the N column later. #questionable
>Joey: CNPTUVW 12L V.W +18 380
>Josh: ILNPQTU 10I .INT +8 316
#note hoping for PULQUE or PLAQUE 15A, trying to create a diversion.
>Joey: ACINPTU 15A TUNICA +30 410
#note I didn't think of PUNCTA, though that would have left me with a real mess next turn.
>Josh: LLMPQUU 13G M.L +18 334
>Joey: EEEHIIP 13K HE. +17 427
>Josh: LPQRTUU D14 Q. +11 345
#note quackle is so broken that it suggests 9L UT being 7 points stronger than this. It's actually 28 points worse, according to also Quackle. We live in a world where Quackle makes 35-point endgame mistakes and certain people think human analysis falls flat below the superiority of Scrabble engines.
>Joey: EEIIOP K7 OPI.E +14 441
#note PI(N)E is 13 better, but not because it fails to give back PR(OPINE). He's sticking me with letters in the end of the sequence, and the O is very nice.
>Josh: LPRTUU 8K .UL +6 351
#note trying to keep PR(OPINE). this is 2 off of PUPU or PUT for reasons
>Joey: EI 9A ..E +7 448
>Josh: PRTU L7 P.T. +12 363
#note -10 to PR(OPINE) which I ended up chickening out of, and worse than virtually every play hooking PULP. A promising display of endgame talent on both ends.
>Joey: I J14 .I +3 451
#note PULI. Joey's best endgame involved a sequence ending with (G)I followed by (J)OE.
>Joey: (RU) +4 455
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