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#player1 HZ Harriet Zucker
#player2 UP Unknown Player
>HZ: ADENTW 8D WANTED +28 28
#note To solve the associated puzzle, view and copy out the last board position but do not look at the sequence of moves!
The last board position is taken from a midgame photo of HZ, the tournament winner, against UP at the Concord Hotel tournament in June in the Catskills, NY, published in Scrabble(R) Players Newspaper, fall 1973. The move sequence supplied here with this position is not necessarily the actual game score, but is an answer to a puzzle based on the photo position. The puzzle is: How can HZ score at least 200 to reach this position, assuming all words are OSPD1, she always plays the highest-scoring word available for any subset of the tiles she uses on her turn, and opponent never scores two zeroes in a row? The provided answer scores 204 up to the point in the photo. Note that OSPD1 was published in 1978 and the actual dictionary used in 1973 was Funk & Wagnalls.
>UP: Q - +0 0
#note (Fictionally exchanged racks, like other reconstructions, are illustrative only. See initial or final play notes for details.)
>HZ: Y E8 .Y +5 33
>UP: AER 10E EAR +11 11
>HZ: LR E7 L...R +16 49
>UP: Q - +0 11
>HZ: S E6 S..... +9 58
>UP: I 6D I. +2 13
>HZ: GRT 6B GR..T +12 70
>UP: J - +0 13
>HZ: ?ILQ F2 QuIL. +33 103
#note One of two moves where we can be mathematically certain of the subset of tiles played and the score. With the highest knowable score, also the most notable play of the tournament; no bingos were reported.
>UP: AS B4 SA. +4 17
#note One of two moves where we can be mathematically certain of the subset of tiles played and the score. Since this play is always suboptimal compared to sat g6 11, we also know that not all plays in this game were optimal.
>HZ: FI A4 IF +14 117
>UP: J - +0 17
>HZ: AN D8 .AN +15 132
>UP: AY I8 .AY +8 25
>HZ: ILNO H10 LION +14 146
>UP: J - +0 25
>HZ: AH G12 HA +14 160
>UP: ?EHR 12B HERs +21 46
#note Designation of first tile was not visible in published photo. Similarly, designation of both tiles 15G-H was not visible, and photo also did not reveal disposition of 13A-C, 14A-E, 15A-F.
>HZ: L 9C L.. +7 167
>UP: B C11 B. +4 50
>HZ: EV G12 ..VE +10 177
>UP: J - +0 50
>HZ: X 15G .X +27 204
#note To solve the associated puzzle, view and copy out the last board position but do not look at the sequence of moves!
The last board position is taken from a midgame photo of HZ, the tournament winner, against UP at the Concord Hotel tournament in June in the Catskills, NY, published in Scrabble(R) Players Newspaper, fall 1973. The move sequence supplied here with this position is not necessarily the actual game score, but is an answer to a puzzle based on the photo position. The puzzle is: How can HZ score at least 200 to reach this position, assuming all words are OSPD1, she always plays the highest-scoring word available for any subset of the tiles she uses on her turn, and opponent never scores two zeroes in a row? The provided answer scores 204 up to the point in the photo. Note that OSPD1 was published in 1978 and the actual dictionary used in 1973 was Funk & Wagnalls.
#rack2 Z
#note To solve the associated puzzle, view and copy out the last board position but do not look at the sequence of moves!
The last board position is taken from a midgame photo of HZ, the tournament winner, against UP at the Concord Hotel tournament in June in the Catskills, NY, published in Scrabble(R) Players Newspaper, fall 1973. The move sequence supplied here with this position is not necessarily the actual game score, but is an answer to a puzzle based on the photo position. The puzzle is: How can HZ score at least 200 to reach this position, assuming all words are OSPD1, she always plays the highest-scoring word available for any subset of the tiles she uses on her turn, and opponent never scores two zeroes in a row? The provided answer scores 204 up to the point in the photo. Note that OSPD1 was published in 1978 and the actual dictionary used in 1973 was Funk & Wagnalls.
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