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 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 79,  Week 19 of 25 – May 23, 2023

The taste of Shavuot lingered on our palates Tuesday courtesy of Pamela’s cheesecake. (Note to members: With Rosh Hashana just a few months away, it really isn’t too early for honey cake.)

Since our regular venue is unavailable on June 13, that week’s Scrabble will take place on Wednesday, June 14. Welcome news: A summer tournament is in the works, with the date, still tentative, set for July 19. 

After giving DavidS an opening for a bingo – an often suicidal move – the game that had proceeded pretty evenly until then began to look grave for JudyM. She attempted to improve matters with an A on the triple word square atop DAZE; alas, while ADOZE is good, ADAZE isn’t. Things only got worse when he affixed a B onto ROO, notching up in the process another bingo on a triple. “What’s a BROO?” she asked. “Broo cares?” came the reply. Chiefly Scottish, it means broth or juice. 

Talking about another game, David remarked, “If ever there was a misleading final score, it was my 420-289 win against Peta. I was lamenting the lack of an open I for BOHEMIAN before I saw the bingo: HAMBONE,” a performer who overacts. “I was behind after each of the first nine turns, and even after the second-to-last turn I was ahead by only 20 points. But then I bingoed, and with one tile in the bag, she had to challenge. I went out for 10 and got another 32 points off her rack.”

There was a starting, maybe even startling, symmetry in Rena’s game against Richard: “Our first two words were bingos, with each of us using our blanks as A’s, for EMAILED and GATHERER”. 

Brave is the soul who challenges RichardS’s plays – an example of his word knowledge was his spotting of a potential OITICICA (a Brazilian tree) while walking past an unsuspecting player’s rack – but in his first and second games he actually played phonies: MYELITE and HARPIER. Richard: “I thought MYELITE was good; HARPIER was pretty much a gamble.” BTW, MYELINE is good, also sans the E.

Are you bemoaning an evening’s – or a whole string of – losses? Here’s Aryeh: “I was despondent, losing my first two games 284 and 285. Then in my game against Steve, with three bingos each, our joint score topped 1,000. My score was 570 – the triple-triple FLOUTERS alone made 167 points.” The moral? Never give up.   

 

WWW: DavidS, RichardS, Yaakov

WOW:  ASSIZES (Susan), PERINEAL (Wendy), VEHEMENT (Peta)

PHOW:  GNASHER (Liran) and EXTOLERS (Hilda)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A:   570 (Aryeh), 447 (Steve), 1428 (RichardS)

B1: 519 (Yaakov), 345 (Gordon), 1407 (Yaakov)

100-pt plays: FLOUTERS – 167 (Aryeh) SHUNTING  – 140 (Yaakov)

Attendance: 32