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THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB
Season 85, Week 15 of 25 – July 07, 2026
The concurrence of the Maccabiah Night Race and our Tuesday Scrabble session, with the attendant road closures and traffic diversions, did nothing to dampen our determination to make it to the Himmelfarb School in good time to engage in our favorite pursuit. Twenty players showed up, ready for competition. “I didn’t eat breakfast or lunch,” one member confessed, tucking into the dips, crackers and other treats laid out by Susan to honor her late father’s 23rd yahrzeit, “so this is very welcome.”
Susan continues to accept registration for our Summer Tournament on Sunday, July 19 at Jerusalem’s Hibba Center. The fee for club members, including lunch and all-day drinks and snacks, is NIS 150. Non-members: NIS 190. Peta adds that a Casual League is planned to include anyone who just wants an enjoyable day of Scrabble without the pressure of competing. “We have three casual players interested and need a minimum of four for this league. Invite your friends!”
Pamela scored with GHETTOED. Judy attempted PATAY, and had to swallow the loss of points. But her GALLETS, challenged, proved good. “I wasn’t sure, but felt it was a word,” she said. Her opponent had thought she meant GALETTE, which is a savory pancake, also valid in WOW24. A GALLET is a stone chip or splinter.
Elana: “In my game with Jonathan I had AAEEB?? on my rack. There was a Q on the board in between the two triple word scores, so I made the word BASQUE, which was challenged – but it’s good; it’s a ladies’ undergarment. Later on in the game he added a D to it, which I challenged off.” Other possibilities with her rack were AMEBEAN, a form of poetry, AMOEBAE, EATABLE and ZAREEBA, an improvised defensive enclosure.
Elana had more. “My game with DavidS started when we both pulled the letter L to start.” A hint at what was coming? “On my first rack I ended up with three L’s.” Despite this inauspicious opening, she forged ahead, playing WAISTER [an old seaman] for 110. David: “She completed drawing all the S’s and blanks and added an S to WAISTER to play AMASSED. I bingoed out with PREEDIT, plus Elana’s full rack of 18 to lose the game 443-408.”
Brenda: “I told Marilyn when we were driving that CWM is a valid word. She asked me to give her a sentence with the letters as a mnemonic, so I told her: “Cows wear mumus – easy to remember because cows moo.” CWM is Welsh for “valley” or “glen.”
Overheard: “The most I can say about my evening was that I didn’t have four bingos shot at me one after the other, like last week….” “I just want to enjoy myself with my tiles… not to win, but to have fun!”
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: Susan, Elana, Judy, Richard, Lisa
WOW: GHETTOED (Pamela), WITTERED (Elana), DAUPHIN (Jonathan)
PHOW:
High Win, High Loss, High Triple:
A: 503 (DavidS), 408 (DavidS), 1293 (Elana)
B1: 424 (Lisa), 335 (Brenda), 1152 (Lisa)
Scores over 500: 503 (DavidS)
100-pt play: WAISTER 110 (Elana)
Attendance: 20