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#player1 Smylie Smylie
#player2 David_Spargo David Spargo
>Smylie: AEIIPRT -I +0 0
>David_Spargo: IQRTU H4 QUIRT +48 48
>Smylie: AAEIPRT G8 APTERIA +65 65
>David_Spargo: OTW H13 TWO +25 73
>Smylie: BCEGISV F6 VIG +19 84
#note considered BEGS, but given TWO was unlikely a J setup and the S is useful for the 3 row, I like this more. BEGS is scoring defensive and complicates the game, so it's very reasonable
>David_Spargo: ABKLNS 3C BLANKS +49 122
>Smylie: BCENOOS F12 ONCE +31 115
#note rough block of NOCEBOS. Even more rough that I forgot BONCE was a word and not a phony. Very bad play
>David_Spargo: AX 4D AX +31 153
>Smylie: BIINORS 11D BIN. +19 134
#note maybe RIBOSE now, the S isn't so good anymore
>David_Spargo: ?INSUVY 12B IVY +32 185
#note actual rack. He said he saw VINY after hitting his clock, which woulda really changed the course of the game
>Smylie: IOORSTT A7 RISOTTO +85 219
>David_Spargo: ?ANSUY 4H .UAYS +34 219
>Smylie: ADEGIOZ 5A AZIDE +54 273
>David_Spargo: ?EGMNRU J1 GER.NiUM +62 281
>Smylie: EFGNOOO 8J .ONGOE +30 303
>David_Spargo: CFIN A1 FINC. +39 320
>Smylie: EFHLLOR 1J .OLFER +33 336
#note I always wonder if I should play something like FELLOE in this position - it bingoes quite a bit more than GOLFER, while GOLFER is the standard valuation play - lowers his average by 7, even though it barely lowers his bingo %, and scores 3 more immediately. This game feels like a race to a bingo, since the board is fairly open and there's a blank out, so why is the slightly better average valuation of GOLFER so important? The only real reason is in case he starts fishing and I can slowly try to outrun a bingo, or if neither of us bingo. It's hard not to see FELLOE, the more aggressive option, as better, even though GOLFER wins a sim by 6 points.
>David_Spargo: AEHLRUW C12 .AU +12 332
>Smylie: DEEHLLM K7 H.LME +25 361
#note I laid down HELLOED at first. Looks great at first, blocking three big lanes after his fish, reaching for the blank. It may be hard to win this game at all without the blank, though not impossible. It also gives him likely just one more chance to fish. However, it leaves 5 in the bag, which isn't great cause he can leave 1 or 2, and it also leaves the N open on column L, which may be especially useful if he kept extra vowels with VAU. VAU can easily leave AEORS, AEIST type stuff, which makes blocking the N more important, but it could also easily leave stuff like ADERS and the like, so it's not like the N and O column arent useful to him. Ultimately chose HOLME because it keeps better outrunning chances (HELLOED then a 15A play can suck for me) and has better timing for outrunning, plus the value of blocking the N. Against some players I might want to take HELLOED, and depending on his range it might be the best play anyways. Another advantage of HOLME was that I keep better bingo-back odds in case he bingoes (unfortunatelly HOLME + bingo empties the bag).
>David_Spargo: DEEHRTW 2M ED +17 349
>Smylie: ?DEEEHL 3L EH +30 391
#note I saw FEEDHOLE and wasn't sure of it, then put it out of my mind. it is a word! I also have FLEECHED. FEEDHOLE can stil lose to the occasional out-bingo, but it wins the vast majority of the time. EDH was tempting because I can occasionally outrun bingoes, but I figured the bingo-back thing was more important (EH bingoes way more often than EDH, partly just to avoid the J and W more often, which were definitely in the bag with ED). long story short, feedhole is a word.
>David_Spargo: ADEORTW 5J .A +14 363
>Smylie: ?DEEJLP 11J J.ErED +13 404
#note JEEPED is a word, I wasn't sure of it, and JEERED gets outrun quite rarely, so figured it was worth not taking the risk.
>David_Spargo: ADEIRST N10 D.RAT +20 383
>Smylie: LOPW B9 OW +28 432
#note not a very well played game on my end, but it was a good game
>David_Spargo: EIS O13 SEI +13 396
>David_Spargo: (LP) +8 404
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