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 THIS WEEK AT THE CLUB

Season 78,  Week 21 of 25 – November 22, 2022

Club members send their heartfelt condolences to longtime fellow member Pamela on the passing of her husband Werner. The levaya is tomorrow, Friday 25th November, at Kibbutz Gezer, 1 pm. Shiva at Nofei Yerushalayim, Apt. 1210 Visiting hours are as follows:

Sunday -Wednesday 10:00-13:00,  16:00-20:00

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Gordon, hosting a belated kiddush to celebrate the birth of a granddaughter, urged members to finish off the remaining bottles of wine: “It won’t improve your game,” he said, “but it will mellow you out if you lose.” Mazal tov.

Quite a few of us have already taken advantage of the “early-bird” offer regarding next year’s announced raise in yearly membership fees: Pay (the current) NIS 50 up till the end of December 2022 and stave off the NIS 25 increase until 2024.

Registration continues for the winter tournament on December 26, the last day of Chanukah, at the Zippori Center in the Jerusalem Forest – NIS 120 for club members and NIS 170 for non-members, including a full lunch. The cost for all is subsidized. Details will follow nearer the date of the tourney.

Meeting the challenge? Pauline felt decidedly unsettled as she contemplated Madeline’s QUEASE. She knew QUEASY (also QUEAZY), of course, but should she challenge? It was a missed opportunity to be regretted later. Yaakov, while pretty sure that AMOEBAL was no good, let it stay on the board so he could play ARRANGED going down a triple from the A. Before challenging your opponent’s play, make sure you don’t stand to gain more points by leaving the word in place.  

Hilda saw the funny side of her first rack, which began with the chorus from “Old Macdonald Had a Farm”: EIEIO. RichardS pulled a similarly unprepossessing collection to start: AEIIOOY. “I exchanged six letters and was able to play two bingos: ELOINER and AGENESIS.” His next rack suffered from “i disease” – BIIIOTY. “I played YOB for 46 points, then SPITZ for 48, and kept IIO.” He then drew the off-putting AUUU, and, undaunted, speedily exchanged all seven letters for six consonants and an I. It’s good to look and learn as the experts play because you see that while, like the rest of us, they aren’t spared the terrible picks, unlike less experienced players they do not hesitate to change –  their whole rack, if need be. Nor do they unfailingly score in the 400s, and over: A game on Tuesday between two A players (so Hilites was informed in a hushed tone) resulted in a score of 321-311.

DavidL, in his game against Madeline, had an opening rack of EEEEPPD, with which he played PEEPEED. JudyM banished all feelings of delicacy and played DOGSHiT. Neither play passed. 

  

WWWW: Wendy

WWW: DavidS, Chani, Shirley

WOW:  AGENESIS (RichardS), ROGERED(Shirley),  WANNESS (DavidS)

PHOW: AMOEBAL (Rita)

High Win, High Loss, High Triple:

A:   494 (Wendy), 419 (SteveG), 1342 (DavidS)

B1: 459 (Elaine), 413 (Roger), 1196 (Elaine)

100-pt plays: none this week

Attendance: 33