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