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 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 84,  Week 12 of 25 –November 11, 2025

Congratulations to DavidS on winning the Club Championship for the 28th time, and better luck next time to challenger Chani. It emerged that neither of them had known RADIANT takes an S. “And, indeed, why should it, since it’s an adjective?” declared David, later answering himself: “Because it means a point from which rays are emitted – not to be confused with RADIAN, which is a unit of angular measure.” Hilites: Radiants are also apparently a select group of gifted individuals with hypernatural abilities. (Our Division A?)

We welcomed Yonatan back from his visit to the US; and Dahlia received a round of applause for completing last week’s four-day Alyn bike ride to benefit the hospital’s Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Center. The club, which sponsored Dahlia – as did individual members also – was gratified to learn that as of Tuesday morning, $2.28m. of the $3m. goal had been reached. The oldest rider was a man of 87. Dahlia: “The highlight for me was riding with the subgroup called The Swift and the Bold made up of 17 kids who are or were in Alyn’s rehab unit. The youngest rider, aged nine and a half, had suffered a rare form of stroke 18 months ago and recovered enough to ride on a tandem. All in all, it was a privilege to take part.”

Peta, playing Aryeh, shared that “he was ahead of me with every single move – including when I put down a bingo. At no point was I in the lead. Then I bingoed out with WORTHIER… and won the game.” Yet again does Peta’s experience teach that one should never give up, even when the game seems to be in the opponent’s pocket.

Bob: “When Marion started our game by saying, ‘There’s going to be a surprise…’ I thought she was referring to her striking day-glo orange tiles – but in fact she put down a bingo, BOWLINE [a knot in a rope]. After that we had bingos going back and forth until I beat her by going out with LUDE – which, as every product of an American university knows, is short for the recreational drug QUAALUDE.”

May scored with PRONATE, which has nothing to do with babies or birth but is a verb meaning to rotate the forearm (or foot) so the palm (or sole) faces downward or inward, like turning a doorknob or holding a glass. She also essayed two phonies, UNSTORED and EVICTER, which made it through. Judy got away with REPELERS.

Synchronicity or serendipity? Two players in different games at the same table called out a 197 score at exactly the same moment.

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WWW: DavidS, Dahlia, Yaakov, Peta, Shirley, Pauline and Bob

WOW: RORQUAL (Chani)

PHOW: ARROIGN (Dahlia), UNSTORED (May) RISABLE (Peta)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A: 520 (DavidS), 439 (Rita),  1434 (Dahlia)

B1: 486 (Avi), 412 (May), 1251 (Avi)

Scores over 500: 520, 502 (DavidS) 515, 511 (Dahlia)

100-pt play: SWERVING 107 (Rita)

Attendance: 26