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#player1 Nicholas_Tam Nicholas Tam
#player2 Arie_Sinke Arie Sinke
>Nicholas_Tam: ARW 8G WAR +12 12
>Arie_Sinke: ADEEGHN I8 .EHANGED +66 66
#note Only bingo.
>Nicholas_Tam: LMNO 14H L.MON +13 25
>Arie_Sinke: EEIOTUW 15G WI.EOUT +51 117
#note Looks right.
>Nicholas_Tam: ?DELNNR 11F iNL.NDER +66 91
>Arie_Sinke: CEGOPSY M9 PO.GY +28 145
#note Looks correct, could also do POGEY L8 for the same score (opens up more, though, so not as good) or GYPO on the other side of the board for one less point.
>Nicholas_Tam: DOU 10E UDO +16 107
>Arie_Sinke: BCEOSSZ J4 COZES +43 188
#note This looks reasonable; there are some other options that also look reasonable. COBS N8 scores 6 less but keeps a superior ESZ leave, which helps me to keep the points coming with easy 40ish Z plays on column J or elsewhere; it does have the liability of setting up CH. BOZO 10L is too open for me but does well in the sim.
>Nicholas_Tam: AAEI 4H AE.IA +16 123
>Arie_Sinke: ?BLNSTX K3 N.X +38 226
#note Looks correct.
>Nicholas_Tam: DE K3 ...ED +27 150
>Arie_Sinke: ?BCILST I3 B.L +18 244
#note LIBS N8 does well in the sim, presumably because it scores 35 - I would have a hard time playing that here. TEC instead of BEL also sims well; I guess BILS? has synergy (also, keeping the L for AECIAL may help). At any rate a lot of plays are close and this is reasonable, if not totally optimal.
>Nicholas_Tam: EGR 9C ERG +8 158
>Arie_Sinke: ?CEISTT C2 TESTICl. +74 318
#note I liked this for exhaustion-style defense of the northwest quadrant. It may be better to take the extra thress points with something like CuTTIES N5 though.
>Nicholas_Tam: AAEISTT 12A SATIATE +72 230
>Arie_Sinke: AEFKOPT A7 KOFTA. +39 357
#note I missed KOFTA D1 for 47. Even if I see that, I'd probably play KOFTAS, sacrificing 7 points to block column A.
>Nicholas_Tam: HJO 4A JO.H +44 274
>Arie_Sinke: AAEIPQU L10 P.A +20 377
#note This is basically a waiting play; I want to hang on to the Q until I'm in a position to play it for a good score safely. However, I'm up by over 100, and the pool is not particularly strong; so if I play EQUIP N6 it is unlikely that anything goes terribly wrong, and I get 38 points right now.
>Nicholas_Tam: EFIV N6 FIVE +22 296
>Arie_Sinke: AEIINQU O4 QUA +27 404
#note This is poor; I didn't know EQUINIA# or QUINIE#, but surely at least could have come up with ANTIQUE 5A for 48.
>Nicholas_Tam: MRV 6B M.RV +15 311
>Arie_Sinke: EIIIINR 13B RIN +14 418
#note Just autopiloting the endgame, and I give up a lot of spread. PORE 10L gets 21 and allows me to keep scoring next turn.
>Nicholas_Tam: BLORSUY F2 BYRLS +30 341
#note Underscored by 3.
>Arie_Sinke: EIII 6J ..E +12 430
#note JOSHER is bette.
>Nicholas_Tam: OU G2 OU +13 354
>Nicholas_Tam: (III) +6 360
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