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

 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 82,  Week 24 of 25 – January 14, 2025

This week’s session having been the penultimate one of the season, there might be no better time to note that PENULT is a word meaning the next to last syllable of a word. Suffering from that too-frequent Scrabble irritation, a plethora of I’s on your rack? How about playing PENICIL, which refers to a small tuft of hairs? It provided the impetus for Alexander Fleming’s naming in 1928 of his new antibiotic PENICILLIN on account of the feathery look of the mold spores from which it was extracted. Just to add interest (or confusion), PENCEL is not a variant of PENCIL, but identified by our dictionary as a small flag.

Word has come down from on high regarding drinking and eating in our library venue. In brief: Don’t do it. Susan points out that libraries everywhere bar food and drink on their premises, and there have been enough spills of coffee etc. during our sessions to give her and Elana palpitations. Since we cherish the continued good health of our organizers – and since there is an adjacent kitchen where we can drink and eat without a problem – players are asked to respect this request.

Richard: “Hats off to David G, who stunned me Tuesday night by playing DOWSINGS. I immediately challenged and smugly settled back for the adjudication that would force him to vacate the spot where I was planning to place my own bingo. But it was I who had to eat crow.” (Dowsing is a type of divination that attempts to locate groundwater, buried metals, gemstones, oil etc. without the use of a scientific apparatus.) You might say that David DOUSED Richard’s aspiring bingo.

Not many games can be called fantastic, but Rena’s game with Rita surely qualifies. Talk about a high loss – Rita’s was 482 to Rena’s 505, adding up to almost 1,000 points combined, and all the power tiles were powerfully employed. Rita played SYNCING, the C landing on the triple word square to turn RAVING into CRAVING for a total of 131 points. The Q was placed on a triple letter square going both ways; the J also landed on a triple letter square. Rena put her Z on a double letter square and reached the triple word; the X too found its place in a triple word. Call it a game for the ages. 

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: DavidS, Susan, JudyM

WOW:  COSTERS (Susan), DOWSINGS (DavidG) FORETELL (Pamela)

PHOW: SWINERY (Pamela)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A: 505 (Rena), 482 (Rita),  1325 (DavidS)

B1: 450 (Susan), 350 (May), 1250 (Susan)

Scores over 500:  505 (Rena)

100-pt play: SYNCING 138 (Rita), SWINERY 103 (Pamela)

Attendance: 26