Day Two
Rd. 8 vs. Judy Cole
Got away with MIBB* to open. It and
MIG/G are playing marbles. Missed AEELNRTX (1) before hitting
AEELNRS (2). Missed ADMRSTU (3) with a blank (not MUSTARD, it didn't
fit) but found ADEORSTU (4). We traded my AEEGORV (5) to her
NAPERIES late.
445 – 293 4-4 +307 me: ??SSSX
Rd. 9 vs. Elizabeth Davis
I transposed tiles trying to make
AGEIMNS (6), but it stood. I chickened out on EERSTVV (7), but held
on in a long, defensive game.
351 – 313 5-4 +345 me: ?SSJQZ
Rd. 10 vs. David Englehardt
I missed ADENOPST (8), but recovered
with ABDEINOS (9), one of my fave finds of the week in AFIIMOS (10),
and AEELRRN (11).
391 – 300 6-4 +436 me: ??SSS
Rd. 11 vs. Carol Tillson
I missed EEHMRST (12) and a sweet nine
was also possible in EEHIMRSTT (13). But AEELRST (14) earned me a
challenge, and I earned another free turn taking off her UNSTAIN* try
before she hit double-blank SHINIER.
403 – 326 7-4 +513 me: SSSX
Rd. 12 vs. Joanne Cohen
She struck first with ROARERS, while I
missed BEHINNOS (15). Got DEENNOY (16) the next turn, and then
EEIILSTW (17). Jargony OUTCUE* from my radio days got me out of a
2-U mess. Joanne found EREPSINS late and I inexcusably missed
EELNOSTT (18).
Blown game factor: 10.
405 – 407 7-5 +511 me: ??SJQXZ
Rd. 13 vs. Betty Conelison
Missed the only bingo in BDEFSS?? (19),
but landed ACDEENS (20) the next turn. INSURES for her late closed
the gap, but enabled me to get TOOTHY for 40 on a tws out of that
rack plus a third T.
379 – 331 8-5 +551 me: ?SSZ
Rd. 14 vs. Ruchi Gupta
She's been due against me. ETERNAL
early, than WAX to set up tws-dls Y-hook for 63-pointer. PITIERS for
91 put me away. Her lead was so big she was able to let go my
bEZELING* for 118. I challenged a D-hook to OUGHT, got the turn back
challenging her STARRIED*, but to no avail.
371 – 450 8-6 +472 me: ?SSJQZ
Stat me, baybeee –
Blanks: 9/16
Esses: 16/28
JQXZ: 13/28
Bingos: 11 – 7 Avg. score: 392 –
345
Quiz
1) EXTERNAL
2) LEANERS
3) DURMAST – a European oak, also
called a sessile oak
4) READOUTS (also OUTDARES,
OUTREADS)
5) OVERAGE
6) ENIGMAS (also GAMINES, SEAMING)
7) VERVETS – a kind of African
monkey
8) NOTEPADS
9) BEDSONIA – variant word for
chlamydia
10) MAFIOSI
11) RELEARN (also LEARNER)
12) THERMES – a unit of heat
13) HERMETIST – practitioner of a
sort of pagan universalist monotheism
14) STEALER (also ELATERS, REALEST,
RELATES, RESLATE)
15) SHINBONE
16) DOYENNE – woman who is the
senior member in age or rank of a group, class, or profession
17) LEWISITE – a compound used as a
blister gas in WWI
18) NOTELET – small sheet of paper
for an informal letter
19) SOFABEDS
20) ENCASED (also DECANES)
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