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 Director: Elana Simons, 054 220 6238, elanalibby@gmail.com

 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 82,  Week 20 of 25 – December 17, 2024

Registration remains open until Tuesday, December 24 for the Alice Jonah Chanukah Scrabble Tournament and Fun Day the following week, on Wednesday, January 1. It will be a full day of tourneying – yes! it’s a verb in our dictionary – and Scrabble fellowship, plus a dairy lunch and all-day drinks and snacks to keep our brains ticking. Details will be posted on the club’s Whatsapp Announcements and also sent out via email. Any non-competitive participant wishing to play a limited number of games in the Casual Division, without the clock, must still sign up in advance with Peta at petapellach@gmail.com

Again, DavidS draws on his experience to drive a point home. But first, the story. “Rita absolutely killed me. She scored 261 points in four turns. Her ‘post-bingo’ rack after playing AMoEBAS for 90 was SINGER?, which gave her [H]erRings for 80. Then came ZED for 47, followed right after by OXO for 44. Meanwhile, I had RETILED with no place on the board to put it and, toward the end, INTROFY, also no place. So I gave up on a bingo and played NOTIFY for 41 points just to reach 300, even though there were only five letters left in the bag – or so I thought. When I quackled the game [for the uninitiated, Quackle is a computer program that analyses your games] I saw there were actually six letters in the bag. The extra one was an E and my end rack should thus have been INRRSU plus E, enabling me to play RUINERS or INSURER, both of which I could have placed. The moral,” said David, “is you need to check and double-check what’s left in the bag – even if you’re getting creamed.”

Brenda played GIGOLO, which was a creative way to rid herself of two G’s and two O’s. JudyM scored with OUTWIND and stumbled over WIFFLE, which should have been WHIFFLE, to produce a puffing sound. “I (mis)remembered it from Winnie the Pooh,” she said. May offered a thoughtful comment on pace. “I play quickly, and my opponent played slowly, which ended up in his going over time and losing 20 points.”

If you missed the opportunity to communicate your hilite in person at the club you can email it to judymo@netvision.net.il or WhatsApp it (054-5552355) up until noon the following day. If you wish to mark any occasion by bringing refreshments to the club, please check with Susan up to a week in advance. 

WWW: Bernard, Liran, Shirley, May

WOW:  VROOMING (Susan), AMOEBAS (Rita),  GIGOLO (Brenda)

PHOW: CLOTHERS (Bernard), FORDERS (May)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A: 492 (Rita), 420 (Wendy),  1327 (Wendy)

B1: 479 (Lesley), 397 (Pamela), 1186 (Shirley)

Scores over 500:  

100-pt play:

Attendance: 24