I won all three last night:
536-347 against Kaveri. Kaveri played the first bingo, MINCERS (92) which slotted the M on the DLS on the top row between the centre and right TWS squares. I spent a lot of time with my rack EIMSTT? and found the triple-triple: ToTEMISM (149). I later played SnAKIEST (72).
535-238 against Jude. I had a bingo bonanza with ACROLEIN (74), ARANEId (67), SIdEREAL (79, through the d in ARANEId), BONnETED (65) and AVENGER (80). Jude did not go overtime and had more than five minutes left on his clock.
324-306 against Troy. No bingos at all in this low game. For some reason, after our second plays I got the player columns mixed up and for the rest of the game I added my score to Troy’s column and vice versa. Thus by the end of the game I thought that I had won, but with a lower score 315-309. We had to recover almost the entire game to ensure that Troy’s score was correct. He patiently went over the game with me. By Troy’s score I could see that I still won. Late in this game my rack was overrun with consonants and I had to use my sole vowel in each play I made. Troy on the other hand had an abundance of vowels. I knew that I stood a chance of winning when Troy’s final rack was among AEEEEOOT? I was able to set up a play to go out in two with only DHILNRS.