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#player1 Samuel_Kaplan Samuel Kaplan
#player2 Edwin_Roth Edwin Roth
>Samuel_Kaplan: ACFIMWX 8H MAFIC +30 30
#note Purposely played MAFIC at 8H over 8D for 2 reasons: the board stays open much longer which I want if I'm looking to rack up spread, and it's much easier to parallel underneath an M than above an F (in the case of playing this at 8D) if it means setting up my X. Looking back at earlier games within this tournament, I held onto the X longer than I should have at times. But it's a genius play here.
>Edwin_Roth: OOW 9F WOO +11 11
#note My inference was that Ed kept another O and some other vowels if he did not simply play 9H OW for 11 more points. But darn him for ruining my X setup!
>Samuel_Kaplan: EIORUWX 10G ROUX +34 64
#note To complicate things more for him, I chose this more defensive move over J8 FIXURE. With an O specified as a partial rack, the sim likes it. He needs a 6 letter word to open up anything meaningful while scoring on Row 8.
>Edwin_Roth: AQT 11E QAT +27 38
>Samuel_Kaplan: EHINORW 12C WHIN +33 97
>Edwin_Roth: AEEEILN 13F ALIENEE +62 100
#note That sucks, this bingo was not previously playable until I played WHIN. Still a nice find.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ADEEEOR 12H OREAD +29 126
#note With 4 Ss and 2 blanks still unseen and Ed drawing 7 tiles (he would have earlier cracks at the Ss and blanks before I would), I decided against 13C OE and 13A ODEA. Let's take out easy bingoes with the ALIENEES hook.
>Edwin_Roth: ABCGMST -ABCGMST +0 100
#note Not actual rack. Ed exchanged 7 tiles here.
>Samuel_Kaplan: EEIJNNU 13B JEE +35 161
#note 8A JINNEE is easily better than this. #findinglarge
>Edwin_Roth: ERU 11A RUE +9 109
>Samuel_Kaplan: GIINNTU J6 IN.I. +17 178
#note I saw and thought about phonying with GUNNITIC* because there is PEARLITE and PEARLITIC as well as PERLITE and PERLITIC. However, only GUNITE is good and not GUNNITE*, so I didn't think that would be a smart risk to take. Ed's rack appeared to be very strong now. While I wasn't willing to do B13 JUN based on his last move, this move should be UN(F)I(X) in the same spot. Smaller mistake this time.
>Edwin_Roth: DEGIPRS -DGIP +0 109
#note Not actual rack. Ed exchanged 4 tiles.
>Samuel_Kaplan: GKNSTUY I3 GUNK +17 195
#note The G is so bad that A8 KNUR is barely worth it for 7 more. 14L YUK is worth it though because of the open I in INFIX which suits leaving GNST nicely. #visionlarge
>Edwin_Roth: AAV H1 AVA +21 130
>Samuel_Kaplan: BBEMSTY A8 EMB.Y +48 243
>Samuel_Kaplan: BBEMSTY -- -48 195
#note I was thinking of AMBER and AMBRY as well as EMBER. But why can't something have more EMBER, or coal, than something else?
>Edwin_Roth: L 3G L.. +5 135
#note And now he's extremely close to a bingo. That could have been much worse.
>Samuel_Kaplan: BBEMSTY F3 BYTE +18 213
#note BYTE should have been played at G3 last turn.
>Edwin_Roth: AEILNST A4 SLANTIE. +77 212
#note That was sort of inevitable.
>Samuel_Kaplan: BEHIMSU E4 BUM +29 242
#note Looks good.
>Edwin_Roth: AEOTV D2 OVATE +40 252
#note Nice play.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ?CEHIRS 1H .SpHERIC +89 331
#note Scores the most by far along with (A)RCHInES and (A)RCHIvES as well, which I saw. Since I needed to make up spread, I decided to spot a C on Column O instead of an S, hence this over the other two 89-pointers.
>Edwin_Roth: DEZ K4 ZED +34 286
#note Looks good if he's the desperate one now, only one A is unseen to him.
>Samuel_Kaplan: ADFORST L3 FADS +50 381
#note Close with 14A FORT. Decided to go with the more sound play without giving much back.
>Edwin_Roth: T I12 ..T +3 289
>Samuel_Kaplan: DGNOORT 14A GOR +33 414
#note Looks fine along with 14 ORT. I was not emptying the bag with how many bingoes he could have fished for. But I was not anticipating his next play. Misscored as 35.
>Edwin_Roth: ?IIPRSY O1 .RISPIlY +95 384
#note His only bingo and a very nice find.
>Samuel_Kaplan: DGLNOOT 1A GOON +28 442
#note No floating E for GOLDTONE, but this is best and gets the job done.
>Edwin_Roth: P 4K ..P +14 398
#note D12 HEP is 1 more. Pretty good for the most part and I'm now 4-2 +167. Final score was recorded as 444-406.
>Edwin_Roth: (DLT) +8 406
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