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#player1 Carl Carl
#player2 Joan Joan
>Carl: AEGHPTU 8G PUGH +20 20
>Joan: IIII -IIII +0 0
>Carl: AAEITTU J8 .AUT +9 29
>Joan: DNT H7 D.NT +5 5
>Carl: AEEIIIT -EIII +0 29
>Joan: RY 11J .RY +12 17
>Carl: AAELSTU L11 .A +10 39
#note EAU is clearly better. (-8)
>Joan: EZ G6 ZE. +19 36
>Carl: AAELSTU -AU +0 39
#note This tournament's off to an amazing start!
>Joan: II -II +0 36
>Carl: AEELOST 11B OLEATES +70 109
>Joan: DENOORS D7 NOOD.ERS +70 106
>Joan: DENOORS -- -70 36
>Carl: CELNOOU F9 OU. +5 114
#note A meltdown moment. I spent flipping forever trying to figure out what Joan was trying to do last turn. I couldn't determine which two letters she had transposed, and since I didn't see any bingos through the other letters, I thought it was safe to fish.
>Joan: DENOORS C7 NOOD.ERS +72 108
#note OMG! How did I miss that?!?! I looked for possible bingos through the L and saw nothing, absolutely NOTHING! Jesus tap-dancing Christ, how blind do you have to be? And here I am forgoing COULEE and COLONEL thinking I'm safe. Ugh, stupidest move ever... So I spent a moment here to cool my jets, perchance to shore up this mess of a game.
>Carl: CEILNOR 8A CO.L +21 135
>Joan: EJST E5 JETS +29 137
>Carl: AEGINRV 13H VINEGAR +81 216
>Joan: ??EIPRS O7 PRaIsES +86 223
>Carl: BIIOVXY N10 XI +51 267
>Joan: EERW 12B W.RE +25 248
>Carl: BINOOVY F2 BOYO +24 291
#note VINO is better defensively and better for leave. Lots of Is out there. (-4)
>Joan: AE 13B E.A +12 260
>Carl: AIIIKNV A4 VINI. +14 305
#note VIA wins the sim, but Jean's last play told me to start blocking hotspots.
>Joan: EGR 3C ERG. +10 270
>Carl: AAIKLMQ D1 MA.K +26 331
>Joan: EHT 1A THE. +27 297
>Carl: ABIILQW 2B AW. +28 359
>Joan: AC H13 .AC +24 321
>Carl: BIILOQT 15H .IBOL +10 369
#note This sims second-best, but LIB K14 is better (-4).
>Joan: FIL 7L FLI. +10 331
>Carl: DEIMNQT N6 Q. +31 400
>Joan: ADFINU L4 DUF. +22 353
>Carl: DEIMNT K3 DIME +30 430
>Joan: AIN J2 AIN +12 365
>Joan: AIN -- -12 353
#note Five days later, I was reiminiscing about this game, and how odd it was that I didn't see NOODLERS, having just studied all the 8s without an A before this tournament, and given a full glimpse of the order Joan intended to play her tiles. Suddenly it dawned on me that NOODLERS was not a word! I let out an ear-piercing scream in the middle of Uncle Ted's funeral and was consequently disinherited.
>Carl: NT B7 N.T +8 438
#note Ok, I didn't scream, and it was at Scrabble club, not Ted's funeral. But he still disinherited me, the cheap bastard.
>Carl: (AIN) +6 444
#note Everything is true about this story, except Uncle Ted. No joke. Uncle Ted = bogus. This game = happened.
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