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

 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 82,  Week 11 of 25 – October 08, 2024

Those working hard to put up and festoon their succas in time for the start of the festival on Wednesday night may welcome a few hours of relaxed fun (okay, with the occasional twinge of tension) next Tuesday – bearing in mind, too, that there will be no Scrabble session during Hol Hamo’ed Succot, when the school is closed.

The Scrabble Dictionary lists SUCCAH or SUKKAH as acceptable, with plurals SUCCAHS (SUKKAHS) or SUCCOTH (SUKKOTH). SUKKOT is also ok; SUCCOT isn’t. Go figure. 

It helps to have at least a passing acquaintance with foreign languages since Scrabble, for reasons best known to itself, includes more than few foreign words in its lexicon. This was demonstrated by a player who racked up a good score by adding an S to JEU, which went unchallenged. It’s French for “game,” and the plural is JEUX, as EAUX is for EAU.

Another player came a cropper (you might call it a zinking feeling) over ZINKY, which she thought should be ZINCKY. In fact, ZINKY, ZINCY and ZINCKY are all good. The more you play, someone noted, the more you’ll remember. Not necessarily, came the sharp retort from another player who had just lost three games.

“I learned something tonight,” said Richard. “That ONLIER isn’t good but ONLIEST is.” It emerges that ONLIEST means the same as ONLY; which kind of leaves ONLIER out on a limb and lonely.

Overheard: “Oh, you’ve blocked where I wanted to play!” (It’s an occupational hazard. Deal with it.) “I didn’t think there were this many vowels left in the bag!” (Why it’s a good idea to track.) “I threw in all my U’s – and then got the Q!!” (Amazing, really, how frequently this occurs.) “This rack is totally ridiculous!!” (From a veteran player who ought by now to be quite familiar with the vagaries of the Scrabble Fairy.) “What can you do with four I’s?! (Not much – so take a deep breath and throw three of them in.) 

Hilites wishes all its readers Shana Tova and G’mar Hatima Tova – including plenty of good games in the coming year.

Don’t forget to sponsor Dahlia for her ALYN bicycle ride this year!! It takes place in November and any donation you can afford will be happily received. You can either catch her at the club to give her cash or you can donate via her personal page on the ALYN website https://sponsor.alyn.org/dfriedman  ELS

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, JudyM

WOW:  JONESES (Yaakov), ENDEMIC (Richard)

PHOW: DEDUCTER (Jonathan), ENSOLED (Peta)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A: 506 (DavidS), 402 (Peta),  1253 (DavidS)

B1: 477 (Elana), 354 (Nechama), 1261 (Judy)

Scores over 500: 506 (David)

100-pt play: WAXIEST 106 (Shirley)

Attendance: 19