Mark and I played eight games over our recent weeklong trip down east and I won all of them:
01 I drew to go first yet my first rack was ANNNNOW, and exchanged five. My first bingo was the oddball dIVVIED (89) and then I played OPERANT (74). Mark impressed me with LAWInES (70) and he also played LAITIES (66). 480-341
02 I played MISDATED (76) and ALIENiSM (80) and Mark played POURING (76, the game’s opener) and RELAYINg (61). With the rack AEILNS? I played my second bingo to the -M, however I missed the easy INSANELy as a triple-triple for 122. The situation was such that the letter already on the board was the first N and I had to pluralize another word so the triple-triple had to have -NS- as the second and third letters. I should have found it, since in my attempts to find a triple-triple I already was arranging my letters to start any possible word with ANS-, ENS- or INS- . The fact that the blank was the last letter meant I could have had INSANEL staring me in the face. 418-405
03 I played RESTATE (80) and RACIEST (63) and Mark played LEERInG (62) and RUNdLED (75) £. I did not like Mark’s second bingo yet had to let it go as an unsuccessful challenge would have cost me the game. 475-439
04 I played EASTING (75) and ESCOtED (77). Mark had no bingos yet got 64 for CHEF / FEASTING. 423-384
05 I played the game’s only bingos, NOTATEs (78) and SWiRLED (80). 470-341
06 I started the bingos with STARTeD (66) and Mark played DRiVERS (77). 370-338
07 I played BERLINS (71), AEROSAT (66) and CORsETS (76) and Mark played IODINeS (63). 463-316
08 I played LEIsTER (84), LIAISeS (67) and ABORTED (77). Mark played OUTSIDER (72). 458-354