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#player1 Jim_Burlant Jim Burlant
#player2 Peter_Huszgah Peter Huszgah
>Jim_Burlant: AEIKLPS 8G SAPLIKE +86 86
#note This leaves the legitimate choices in the dust. Peter held this and, after almost 3 minutes, let it go. He told me after the game he did so because he wasn't sure, he thought it seemed plausible, and it gave him his comeback play.
>Peter_Huszgah: INX 9K NIX +43 43
>Jim_Burlant: ?CDINOW K8 ..DOW +18 104
#note I can only play what I know...and I had no clue there were any bingos (a 7 and a handful of 8's) in this rack. All I could see to do was dump the W and go on from there. 10F COWbIND wins the sim at 90%. This play sims at 84%.
>Peter_Huszgah: EELOORT 10D RETOOLE. +63 106
>Jim_Burlant: ?CEINNQ 12K .INCE +22 126
#note I didn't like this play, but felt that 22 points were too much to turn down, especially since I was sitting on the blank. 7F QI is apparently the play; with the duplicates I felt it more important to turn tiles to get out of this rack.
>Peter_Huszgah: ILV O12 .VIL +21 127
>Jim_Burlant: ?DNOQSS 14N Q. +22 148
#note Now no choice - dump the Q. This is best.
>Peter_Huszgah: EHI 11E HIE +26 153
>Jim_Burlant: ?DHNOSS 7L SH +33 181
#note Best.
>Peter_Huszgah: MY N6 MY +22 175
>Jim_Burlant: ?CDNORS 13E CoNDORS +71 252
#note DACRONS scores 2 more; I liked this for defense. I'm at 84%.
>Peter_Huszgah: ILY H12 I.LY +27 202
>Jim_Burlant: AAABEGT O4 ABA +10 262
#note Whoops - realized right after I'd hit my clock that I missed BAA in the same spot. Quackle prefers this play at 7F, with 9H BA (which I didn't see) winning the sim. Not sure I would have played it if I had seen it; I can't see playing for 16 and keeping duplicated A's. I'm at 75% with this choice.
>Peter_Huszgah: EF 14F FE. +28 230
>Peter_Huszgah: EF -- -28 202
#note Huh?
>Jim_Burlant: AAEGORT 7F GOA +10 272
#note Quackle prefers N2 GOA.
>Peter_Huszgah: DFI N2 DIF +19 221
>Jim_Burlant: AEERRTU D6 TRUE. +6 278
#note Crucial miss - probably the game-deciding play. What do you do here if you don't know that you have an 8 (URETRAL) in your rack? All I could come up with was the old standby: turn some tiles and hasten the end of the game and hopefully draw out of this nonsense. Normally I'd want to keep AERT together, but with TTTT still unseen, I figured I could afford to part with the T. Best non-bingo play is 14F RULE. I didn't see that spot until much later in the game.
>Peter_Huszgah: EENV 8A VEN.E +24 245
>Jim_Burlant: AAAEGRS C3 RAGA +12 290
#note Quackle prefers C7 ANA or M2 AA. I only saw E4 AGA and didn't like it because of the unseen Z. I also didn't like C4 AGA; even though I had the R, there were still 2 R's unseen and I thought I could get burned by putting AGA down.
>Peter_Huszgah: JW 4B J.W +26 271
>Jim_Burlant: AEEISUZ B7 S.IZE +34 324
#note Perhaps panic setting in? I'd been unable to put any points on the board for 3 turns and felt that I needed to take the points. Quackle thinks the best play is E13 CUE, presumably to set up my Z for the next turn. The big question - would row 15 have stayed alive if I had played CUE?
>Peter_Huszgah: ABIMT A11 AMBIT +38 309
>Jim_Burlant: AEERTUU 14F RU.E +13 337
#note Death rack. Quackle says the best plays are I8 PULE, J13 RUE, E13 CUE and exchange EUU. I don't think any of them would have helped. I needed to block the D on row 2 but couldn't see anything to unload the U and block that didn't give him a clear shot at row 1. If I block row 2 with AE O1, what do I do next turn with ERTUU?
>Peter_Huszgah: ?EOOPRT 2G PROmOTE. +60 369
>Jim_Burlant: AENNTUU H1 T.UE +15 352
>Peter_Huszgah: ADFGOT B13 OF +24 393
>Jim_Burlant: ANNU L2 .UNA +8 360
>Peter_Huszgah: ADGT C12 AG +18 411
>Jim_Burlant: N I2 .N +6 366
>Jim_Burlant: (DT) +6 372
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