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THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB
Season 81, Week 11 of 25 – April 09, 2024
With two splendid kiddushes in less than a week, Club members may be needing to adjust their waistbands. Last Thursday’s was given by Rita to celebrate both a granddaughter’s bat mitzva and the birth of a new great-granddaughter. On Tuesday, the tasty spread, augmented by members’ hametz contributions, was organized by DavidL, whose eldest son married off his eldest son. Mazal tov to both Rita and David.
Upcoming Scrabble sessions: As we move into the festival and commemoration period, here are the dates of our meetings this month: Next week, on April 16 and, two weeks after that, on April 30. The intervening Tuesday is the first day of Pesach, when any games played will be private ones.
One member cudgeled her brains. Could REEXERT be a word? She thought it might be. No, said NWL18. Having lost that opportunity for a successful challenge, she promptly lost another one – and the game – by letting TOWNIER pass. “But TOWNY (TOWNIE) is good,” she protested, forgetting that they are nouns, not adjectives. Gotta stay on one’s toes in this game.
Proud of adding HOT to HEADS, JudyM was chagrined as her neat solution to pulling two U’s for her final rack – UTERUS – ended up stillborn when her opponent went out first. Her subsequent consolation for losing to a top player was the fact that she had challenged off no less than three phonies: DETERING, VINEY and LEECHY.
“The only thing I can say about my games last week,” Peta recalled, “is that all three of them hinged on who picked up the second blank. My game with Liran was close – the second blank pushed him over the top. I had a good win over Rena only because I bingoed on the last play with the second blank. Against Wendy, I picked both blanks, bingoed with both, and that made all the difference.”
Richard told this cute story: “I was riding the bus with a new neighbor, who told me he was on his way to volunteer at the Boyar High School in Bayit Vegan. To my response that I play Scrabble at the Himmelfarb School right across the road, he volunteered that an old friend of his was a former Scrabble World Champion – Joe Wapnick. In the summer, he recalled, they and their wives used to attend a music camp, where the Jewish participants would gather on Shabbat Eve to make Kiddush together. “But Wapnick wasn’t exactly into Kiddush,” my neighbor recalled with a chuckle. “Rather, his devotions at that hour usually centered on the study of Scrabble word lists!”
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: Chani, May
WOW: SALTERY, BITTERNS (DavidS), ENTASIS (Steve)
PHOW: OUTSLING (Elana), LURIDEST (Pamela), RESTOLEN (DavidL)
High Win, High Loss, High Triple:
A: 589 (DavidS), 3781 (Aryeh), 1481 (DavidS)
B1: 504 (JonathanB), 388 (Madeline), 1249 (May)
**NEW!!** Scores over 500: 589 (DavidS), 512 (Chani), 504 (JonathanB)
100-pt play: 101 BANQUET (Madeline)
Attendance: 30