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

 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 84, Week 25 of 25 – February 4, 2026

“Every new beginning,” said the Roman statesman Seneca, “comes from some other beginning’s end,” and thus, with the end of the current season this week, we look forward to the first session of Season 85 with optimism and faith in our ability to play a good game whilst having a darn good time. For those who might despair of seeing their ratings go up, here’s some advice from lifestyle influencer and mental health advocate Brittney Moses: “You have to stop thinking you’ll be stuck in your situation forever. We feel like… we’ll never get out of this impossible struggle. Don’t confuse a season with a lifetime. Even your trials have an expiration date.”

Peta: “Last time I played Steve, he opened with two bingos, neither of which I challenged. This time he again opened with two bingos – SAWLIKE and UNWARPED – and I challenged them both. They’re good!”

The triple word square just eluded Debbie when she played RAINIEST down the appropriate line, “but then I got it by adding a G in the top corner of the board.” With a final rack of OOING plus a blank – and a handy Z on the board – Susan called her blank a B, placed it so as to turn the move into a double word, and bingoed out with BOOZING.  

How often do both players each draw a blank to see who starts? It happened to Pauline and Judy. According to ChatGPT, the odds of this occurring are 1 in 4,950. “Rare,” commented the AI language model in answer to the question, “but not astronomically rare!” Incidentally, Pauline scored her first 500+ on Tuesday. 

Here’s a cautionary tale from Richard: “Whilst playing my favorite game, at some point I began inadvertently to draw tiles from the wrong bag – it was the same style of bag, the same color tiles. When the second Q was drawn, we knew there was a problem and asked the club officials what to do. They said to just continue playing, using the correct bag. It sounded good – but I was soon to pay the price of my dereliction. Although I had been ahead almost to the conclusion of the game, I lost when my opponent put down a bingo – using the third blank!”

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 or Elana up to a week in advance. 

WWW: Dahlia, Rita, ElanaS, Richard

WOW: ERUCTATE (DavidS) URBANEST (Yaakov), HEDONIST (Jonathan)

PHOW: OVERLOADER (Dahlia)

High Win, High Loss, High  Triple:

A: 5379 (Wendy), 417 (Rena), 1380 (Dahlia)

B1: 508 (Pauline), 372 (Judy), 1172 (ElanaS)

Scores over 500: 579 (Wendy), 508 (Pauline)

100-pt play: 

Attendance: 20