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#player1 Rafi Rafi
#player2 Carl Carl
>Rafi: AEFLT 8D FETAL +24 24
#note Ok, Rafi clobbered me twice at this event. Now it's payback time!
>Carl: AAEIORT F6 IO.A +6 6
#note These are not payback tiles, unfortunately, but the game is still young. TAO F8 sims a little higher (-3)
>Rafi: BDEIMST E2 BEMIST.D +83 107
>Carl: AEGORTV - +0 6
#note BLAH!! This was bound to happen eventually. I just didn't recognize it. Didn't recognize it by itself, as an extension of BEMIST, or as an anagram of BEDTIMES. It simply wasn't there, whether due to exhaustion, rust, senescence, etc. This year, I went through most of the words, like, once, and I didn't even get to all of them. There were holes in my word knowledge and something eventually--inevitably-- happened to fall into one of them. (-66)
>Rafi: GW G7 W.G +30 137
#note As if he knew I would bingo through the L, or play FORGAVE as a backup. What a nightmare!
>Carl: AEGORTV 3A GROV. +18 24
#note D3 TOG wins the sim (-6.5)
>Rafi: Q 5D Q. +11 148
>Carl: ACEHITU A3 .AUCHE +39 63
#note This seemed better than AUGH; gotta open some lanes if I'm going to salvage this disaster. (-3?)
>Rafi: ?EILOTY B8 TOYLIkE +86 234
#note Rafi's winning chances are roughly 99% if this is good.
>Carl: ?EINNOT - +0 63
#note I needed to be 100% sure about TOYLIKE, and I wasn't. It looked ok, but not completely. Something in the back of my mind thought there was a word like it that wasn't good; is it TOYLESS only? But this was mostly a desperation challenge, and I expected to lose it. (-34)
>Rafi: UZ 6A .UZ +16 250
>Carl: ?EINNOT 4E .ENTIONs +70 133
>Rafi: ACIRU H1 URA.IC +24 274
>Carl: IILNNPR 12A L.PIN +16 149
#note The duplicate-tile gods will punish me HARD for my foolishness.
>Rafi: DEEOO 6H .OOEED +11 285
>Carl: IINNORS 13B .INO +18 167
>Rafi: DFOR K2 FO.D.R +20 305
>Carl: BEINNRS 3H .B +14 181
#note BEN 14A wins the sim here (-6)
>Rafi: DKY D11 D..KY +17 322
>Carl: EIINNRS M6 .IN +5 186
#note 5M IN wins the sim. (-6.5) I totally deserve this, but it's notable that 8 of the last 16 tiles I've drawn were Is and Ns.
>Rafi: AJR L1 JAR. +25 347
>Carl: EINPRSX 1L .INX +54 240
>Rafi: EGV 9K VEG +17 364
>Carl: AAEEPRS N9 APE +19 259
#note ANOA E11 wins the sim (-10). Should have taken up Chutes and Ladders, something more on my level.
>Rafi: RW 9A R.W +23 387
>Carl: AEEERSU O5 UREASE +31 290
#note K9 VEE wins the sim (-3.5) Overall, I was 138.5 points less than optimal this round, my worst game in many years. Not exactly the payback I was going for.
>Rafi: AHLMSST 11J MASH.S +29 416
#note Hot take: what if I had COVID? Rafi tested positive, and I roomed with Rafi, and I didn't wear a mask the whole time. What if my fatigue on Day 4 was... unnatural? Wouldn't that be nice?
>Carl: AET G2 ET.A +15 305
#note As much as I'd like to believe that, I'm fully capable of playing like an idiot without assistance from the novel coronavirus.
>Carl: (LT) +4 309
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