Saturday, August 20, 2016

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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