Thursday Night Scrabble


The Club was cancelled today because of the dismal weather so Mark came over and we played three games. I won all of them, averaging 443 to his 353. Here is the bingo breakdown:

CraigMark
CLARINET (65)WRESTLERS (74)
HARDLINE (78)GLOATERS (60)
BOUnDING (72)ENTENDRE (60) *
TOURISMS (78)FAINtERS (80)
SpEARED (74)
TOLUIDS (68)

My baby plays nines! WRESTLERS was played through -ER-.

One of my racks in the first game was BHIPUW? It looked awful, yet I immediately saw BULLWHIP. I had a moment of excited anticipation when Mark started to play his next word to an open -P. He placed the A, then an E in front of it and I was hoping he’d make LEAP. I was crestfallen when he played REAP instead. Imagine if I was able to play BUlLWHIP and turn that ugly rack into a bingo.

My second bingo was played to the -E. I was happy to find the only other bingo that rack made–HANDRAIL–yet there was no A to play through.

I questioned ENTENDRE, as I figured it was only part of the noun phrase “double entendre” and was not a word that stood on its own. A later check at Merriam-Webster proved this. Mark’s bingo was worth sixty points, and I had a comeback play of VEXT for 54 which used the first E in his word, so I left it.

I had the rack ADEERS? and wanted to make the blank an m to hook under MM to make a bingo on the bottom TWS row. It isn’t every day you see MMM on a board. I saw SmEARED yet was so focussed on finding a word that began with m that I missed that SmEARED itself fit, because I could have made OHS and MMm and the play would have scored 83.

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