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#player1 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
#player2 Dan_Terkell Dan Terkell
>Jim_Burlant: BDGIRRU -BIGRU +0 0
#note Hey Jim, what's wrong with GRUB for 14 pts?
>Dan_Terkell: EEEMOTY -EEEMO +0 0
>Jim_Burlant: DDEIRTU 8G DUIT +10 10
#note I was really out of it this game. DUD 8G is obviously much better than this.
>Dan_Terkell: JU J6 JU. +26 26
>Jim_Burlant: ADEERRX 7I X. +34 44
#note One of the only good plays I made this game.
>Dan_Terkell: ?EEILNS K8 SEELINg +68 94
>Jim_Burlant: ADEEKRR 12G DARK.E +24 68
#note 3 whiffs in 4 turns. DARKENER 13 F!
>Dan_Terkell: DHIIINR -DHI +0 94
>Jim_Burlant: AEFFRST 14K .AFFE +20 88
#note This play pretty much sums up this game for me so far: one giant gaffe after another. How's about STAFFER 13B!!!!!! 4 whiffs in 5 turns. How can this get worse, you ask? Keep watching...
>Dan_Terkell: AENT 15L NEAT +34 128
>Jim_Burlant: AENRSTU 13B NATURES +72 160
#note Amazing - I actually didn't miss a bingo. And I even chose one of the two best options. (NATURES M6 is best). Too bad the good play didn't continue.
>Dan_Terkell: IORRW D8 WORRI. +26 154
>Jim_Burlant: AEINNSZ 10J Z.IN +33 193
#note ZEINS B10!!!!!
>Dan_Terkell: TVY H11 V..TY +33 187
>Jim_Burlant: AENORSS N4 REASONS +77 270
#note Given how I've been playing this one, it's amazing I even found the bingo. But it's no surprise I chose this one, since it's the worst choice of the 3 bingo options I have. If you think this is bad, it only gets worse.
>Dan_Terkell: BOP O6 BOP +39 226
>Jim_Burlant: GHIMOOW C7 HOW +31 301
#note The last good play I make this game.
>Dan_Terkell: ?CEELNT E2 LECTErN +72 298
>Jim_Burlant: GGIILMO M2 GLOM +20 321
#note Didn't like the leave at all...just was blind to everything this game. Don't know what was wrong, but my head was anywhere but the game.
>Dan_Terkell: AD 8A AD... +27 325
>Jim_Burlant: GHIIIIM 11B MI.I +12 333
#note Right idea, wrong execution (gee, what a surprise). MINI M8 wins the sim.
>Dan_Terkell: EPRY O1 PYRE +34 359
>Jim_Burlant: CGHIIOV F5 OH +28 361
#note This is just horrific. CIVIC 4A!!!!!
>Dan_Terkell: ADGO K3 DAGO +21 380
>Jim_Burlant: ACEGIIV J2 VIA +19 380
#note Seeing the tile pool at this point, I figured he was tring to set up QI J2 as his exclamation point. I figured that he had been sitting on QI but didn't have the U when he played DAGO. I thought that if I went with CIVIC he'd burn me with QI, and that the spread minimizing option would be to let him have QUAIL 2A.
>Dan_Terkell: ABELQTU 11J E. +18 398
>Jim_Burlant: CEGIIQ 3C IC. +10 390
#note Obviously I was wrong and the Q was still at large...and courtesy of VIA I've dug myself what should be an insurmountable hole here. The first inclination is to get rid of the Q with QI F1...but that gives him QUA 1F for 36 and there is no way on earth I can overcome that...and it will blow my spread. So I have to make the feeble attempt at giving myself a place to play the Q since I outsmarted myself on the last turn.
>Dan_Terkell: ABLOTU 4A BOT +10 408
>Jim_Burlant: EGIQ A4 .EG +6 396
#note Continuing with the "plan." He has to be aware that I'm sitting on the Q, considering that he immediately blocked my feeble Q setup.
>Dan_Terkell: ALU 3B L... +8 416
#note ...and Dan makes the wrong play. LA 2E only scores 4, but I would have been unable to unload my Q.
>Jim_Burlant: IQ F1 QI +17 413
#note When he put down LO/LICE, I had to do everything I could to contain myself and not tip off that he was giving me the game. After I put down QI, went out, got the 4 points from his rack and tallied my score, he was (quite understandably) in utter shock. I truly felt badly for Dan - he had played a much better game than I had, and it only took one end-game mistake on his end to bail out all the misfires and idiotic plays I had made.
>Jim_Burlant: (AU) +4 417
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