Mark and I played four games this weekend, one week before we head off to play in the Scrabble Players Championship in Baltimore. I won three, averaging 416 to Mark’s 314. Here is the bingo breakdown:
| Craig | Mark |
| ESCOTING (86) | WEIRDEst (70) |
| REASONED (69) | TWITChES (95) |
| ANESTRI (66) | |
| MAHOUTS (74) | |
| SINUATES (77) | |
| ENgRAFT (70) | |
| STOMATE (76) | |
| TROIlITE (64) |
I am excited about playing in my first US Nationals since Buffalo in 2018, yet have remained ignorant of the players who will be in my division. I have only checked who is ranked in the top ten. Thus I will have the experience of how it was in the mid-nineties, when you showed up for a tournament not knowing who’d be there.