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 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 83,  Week 09 of 25 – March 25, 2025

We said hello to New Yorker Fay Halberstam, who is in Israel on a short visit. She played three games and promised, “I’ll be back.” And we were happy to see Avi return after a lengthy absence. “He hasn’t lost it,” commented Richard after Avi played LINGUINE, a variant of the long, flat and slightly curved pasta more commonly known as LINGUINI. The word means “little tongues.”

The kiddush this week was courtesy of Wendy in celebration of her new grandson. Mazal tov!

The club sends sincere condolences to Elana Botwinick on the passing of her mother, Ada. Both were longtime valued members of the club. Wrote Hilda on the club chat group: “I had lovely conversations with Ada… she was a lovely lady.”

Misery, thy name is Montagu. JudyM lost her first, close, game to Pamela by challenging DUIT, an old Dutch coin (“My excuse is I’ve never seen it played…”); and her second game, also close, to Pauline by not challenging LAZO, which is a phony. “You need a strong stomach for Scrabble,” she commented later. “It’s a challenging game.”

Lose some, win some. Elana’s first play against Judy was BEJOWLED, which Judy figured was worth the risk of challenging at the very beginning of a game. It isn’t good. Elana: “I was probably thinking of BEJEWELED.” Wendy got away with the phony ENGRAPH. Rita: “I thought seriously about challenging it, but didn’t.” Rita played POUTINES, a nonkosher-sounding Canadian dish of French fries covered with brown gravy and cheese curds. Pauline got away with DOB, which is slang for to tell on someone but isn’t good in WOW24. She hoped that WETA, a large, clumsy insect, might be challenged, but it wasn’t. 

Chani unluckily got left with a final rack of Q, Z and V – and a single vowel. “The beginning of the game, I was plagued by too many vowels. My first rack had five. My second had six and a blank. My third had five and two blanks and I played a bingo, ALIENEE. Then, toward the end of the game, I had one or no vowels and no openings to play off the consonants. Indeed, my last two racks had six consonants and only an O.” 

Roger was far from mindless when he played DIPPIEST. His only regret was that Dahlia didn’t challenge it.

 

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: Wendy, Elana, Marilyn

WOW:  MAGENTA (Dahlia), POUTINES (Rita)

PHOW: JAWER

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A: 499 (DavidS), 399 (Dahlia),  1314 (DavidS)

B1: 451 (Elana), 404 (Pamela), 1254 (Elana)

Scores over 500: 504 (Fay)

100-pt play: UNQUIET, 115 (Dahlia)

Attendance: 30