Weekend Scrabble


Mark and I played five games this past weekend and I won all of them, however I wouldn’t have won the last game if I hadn’t pulled out the blank as the last tile in the bag. I always draw my tiles one at a time, even when I know that I am emptying the bag, and the blank was the last remaining tile in two of our games. In the final game I needed a bingo to win, so I fished off a duplicate N, leaving me to draw the last tile in the bag. With the score in Mark’s favour 390-333, I was shocked to discover the final tile was the blank, and I was able to bingo to an L to make ORIENtAL, scoring 68. My average score was 407 and Mark’s was 348. Here is the bingo breakdown:

CraigMark
HANDLED (78)TRENDIER (68)
AMNESIA (67)BAiLERS (71)
DEVISING (76)sTEPPES (68)
sCHOLAR (101)NeAREST (71)
MOoTING (70)DATINGS (66)
AUNTIEs (78)OILIEST (70)
dETOXES (75)EVALUATE (86)
ORIENtAL (68)

In the only game where Mark scored no bingos, he nonetheless played a word with a bingo score: ZERo, which earned 87, his highest play during our five games.

In one of our games my rack was ACCITX? and I saw CICATRIX, which required me to build through an R or another I. Unfortunately I couldn’t play this low-frequency bingo. I played CACTI instead.

My opening draw in game four was the horrid DFMRWWZ. I exchanged six, keeping the Z, and then proceeded to draw six more consonants.

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