1st Steve Hartsman topped a diminished field of six players with a 3-1 +128 record. In game one, his poor luck against Bryan Benwitz continued; after all was said and done, it was a 505-304 win for Bryan, who had SPUMANTE, RARITIES, and SIDESMAN to Steve's REGRATES. The best remedy to losing a game by 200 points is to win the next game by 200 points, and Steve put that old adage into practice with a 512-299 win over Helen Flores in the second round. He piled on bingos of RELOANED, PAESANI, ENAMOUR, and the phony GRISTLED* (a phony common enough that it was played at our club once before, in 2015). Steve wrapped up his first-place effort with a 391-308 win over Dave Kinzer (getting ESTUARY and DILATION) and a 413-380 victory against Richard lauder (finding the ultra-common SERIATE, which is the sixth-most common bingo played at our club, with 29 occurrences since 2011; its anagram, AERIEST, has been played 26 times).
2nd Helen Flores went 3-1 -133, timing her strike for exactly the week when certain high-level players were absent to secure a coveted writeup paragraph. She started off with a tight two-point win over Dave Kinzer, 364-362, countering his Word-of-the-Week PARFAIT with her own GROANER. Helen's luck took a nosedive as she was steamrollered (Steverollered?) by Steve Hartsman 299-512, but she quickly recovered to get a big win off of Dennis Lloyd, 442-381. Helen found DERISION and WARDENS in that one, while Dennis had PALLIATE and FIDGETS. But Helen's signature win waited until the last round, as she felled the bingo-knowledge titan Bryan Benwitz by a score of 412-395, making her the winner in two of their last five contests. Bryan was held to a single bingo of REMORSE, while Helen had SNAKIER and DEMONIC, proving once again that "bingoing early and often" is never a bad strategy.
| Standings | |
| Steve Hartsman | 3-1 +128 |
| Helen Flores | 3-1 -133 |
| Bryan Benwitz | 2-2 +372 |
| Richard Lauder | 2-2 +154 |
| David Kinzer | 1-3 -134 |
| Dennis Lloyd | 1-3 -387 |
| Bingos | ||
| Steve Hartsman | 8 | REGRATES RELOANED PAESANI ENAMOUR ESTUARY DILATION SERIATE gristled |
| Bryan Benwitz | 8 | SPUMANTE RARITIES SIDESMAN TUTELAGE OILCANS FEINTED NATTERED REMORSE |
| Helen Flores | 5 | GROANER DERISION WARDENS SNAKIER DEMONIC |
| Richard Lauder | 5 | SULKIES FAILING OUTLINE TEENERS LANCETS |
| David Kinzer | 4 | PARFAIT HANGOVER PLANETS scaredy |
| Dennis Lloyd | 2 | PALLIATE FIDGETS |
| High Games | |
| 512 | Steve Hartsman |
| 505 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 495 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 461 | Richard Lauder |
| 451 | David Kinzer |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 2 | Steve Hartsman |
| 2 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 1.25 | Helen Flores |
| 1.25 | Richard Lauder |
| 1 | David Kinzer |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 79 | Richard Lauder |
| 76 | Dennis Lloyd |
| 74 | Helen Flores |
| 73 | David Kinzer |
| 71 | Bryan Benwitz |
| High Averages | |
| 449 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 405 | Steve Hartsman |
| 388 | Richard Lauder |
| 379 | Helen Flores |
| 349 | David Kinzer |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 349 | Richard Lauder |
| 356 | Bryan Benwitz |
| 373 | Steve Hartsman |
| 382 | David Kinzer |
| 413 | Helen Flores |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 90 | SULKIES | Richard Lauder |
| 87 | OILCANS | Bryan Benwitz |
| 87 | FAILING | Richard Lauder |
| 84 | FIDGETS | Dennis Lloyd |
| 81 | GROANER | Helen Flores |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 383 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 430 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 335 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 73 |
Wednesday, December 31:
NO SCRABBLE CLUB ON NEW YEARS EVE
Wednesday, January 7:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, January 14:
Scrabble at Covenant Church
Wednesday, January 21:
Scrabble at Misty Mountain Games
Saturday, January 24:
Madison Scrabble Club Party and Tournament
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