Scrabble in Halifax and on Cape Breton Island


Mark and I played nine games of Scrabble during our recent holiday in Nova Scotia and I won seven. Here is the bingo breakdown:

CraigMark
OVErLAP (80)FLeCKING (110)
UNOPENEd (63)NaNNIES (60)
DANCIEST (70)TANGLER (66)
TREEING (66)sTILtED (80)
ISOLATE (69)POTTERS (88)
MEASLED (71)ENDORSEE (64)
SEINERS (68)
ATABRINE (60)
UToPIAS (78)
LARIGANS (62)
NONElITE (78)
ACHIEvE (68)
WARRENS (83)
ELECTOR (64)
FARSIDE (65)
SINCERER (62)
MELTInG (84)

In our first game I played five bingos (the first five on the chart) and the game was still young. I felt I had a chance to play six legitimate bingos in a single game. My record is six which I achieved only once, but one of them was a phony. Six bingos was not to be, but I did score 556.

In one game I forwent playing a bingo, BAnKSIA (74), and played KABS (63) instead. By playing those four tiles I still emptied the bag, and got the clunky INUW. Had I played the bingo, it would have given Mark an opportunity to play out with GOONIeR, underlapping its last two tiles under the BA in BAnKSIA, and win.

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