Mark and I played nine games of Scrabble during our recent holiday in Nova Scotia and I won eight. Here is the bingo breakdown:
| Craig | Mark |
| DRESSED (70) | SWELTEr (63) |
| OPIATES (82) | SUNnIER (66) |
| HEMIOLA (81) | FAstING (75) |
| DRAPERS (86) | INTEREST (59) |
| BASSInET (80) | VAGUEST (75) |
| GLOATER (68) | FESTeRS (88) |
| CENTAURS (78) | PAINTEd (81) |
| INSURES (68) | REPoRTS (64) |
| VIRTUoUS (74) | LATTIcE (82) |
| TrOWELS (82) | |
| ARTISTIC (71) | |
| BEANIES (68) | |
| GRINNER (70) | |
| AIRlINER (64) |
I played no bingos in the game I lost.
My play of VIRTUoUS–with its horrid UUV–was a dream to play. Racks like that are either a bingo or a trade.
Two bingos that I missed almost gave me facepalm injuries. I cannot recall if I had the opportunity to play either, as I did not record the board configurations, only the racks:
ACIKORS, which I jokingly anagrammed to AIRSOCK, only to recoil in shock to see that it anagrammed to the perfectly acceptable ARKOSIC. I know this word, but it was hard to find. Now I know that when I see AIRSOCK, it makes ARKOSIC; and
AILRSTY, the anagram of which I only recited the previous day as I reviewed acceptable sails during a sailing trip to McNabs Island. Onboard word games included “What’s INSULTS + A? It’s STUNSAIL.” When I saw my rack, all I could focus on was SATYR, as I was able to play it to the -R from the top middle TWS to score 36. When I entered my rack into Zyzzyza I exclaimed “Aarrghh! I was using that word only yesterday!” And that word was TRYSAIL.