Tuesday Scrabble

[Deanna Stacy]

There were 10 Scrabblers at MHM this evening--Denny Ashby, Pat Boddy, Matt Ridout, Lynn Hiller, Cheryl  Thompson, Kim Taylor, Nate Sullivan, Dave Hurd, Dan Heck, and Deanna Stacy. 

Matt        3-0     308
Dan        2-0     264
Pat         2-1     196
Dave      2-1      (5)
Kim      2-1-1    (12)
Denny    1-1       4
Lynn      1-3       60
Cheryl    1-3     (322)
Nate     0-1-1   (166)
Deanna   0-3    (327)

Cheryl   342   Lynn   341
Cheryl   XI 40,  DONGS  36
Lynn  HIVE 36,  DOWNY  33

Matt  445   Lynn  435
Matt  *inpanel*  74,  PARODIES  70,  SEDATION  80
Lynn  CRAZES  78,  STALLION  66

Kim  393   Lynn  326
Kim  CLAIMED  68,  FIB  38
Lynn  JUNS  28,  YON  27

Lynn  412   Cheryl  274
Lynn  STRINGED  60,  JIN  51
Cheryl  WANTED  28,  CRAVE  27

Nate   320   Kim   320
Nate  DUSTIER  69,  TI  30
Kim  SUQ  38,  KEEP  40

Matt   436   Dave   279
Matt   WAVELET  84,  FRONTES  73
Dave  PORKIEST  89,  QUIRE  28

Dave  356   Deanna   284
Dave  OUTCOME  70,  WINCH  53
Deanna  LES  34,  XI  27

Kim  361   Cheryl  292
Kim  EX  53,  RAJ  36
Cheryl  ZA  29,  FEH  27

Denny  313   Deanna   229
Denny  THANES  35,  SIZE  41
Deanna   ARGENT  27,  BARFS  31

Dan  382   Cheryl   266
Dan  DAY  31,  ZINE  56
Cheryl  HOARDS  28,  EH  32

Pat  418  Deanna   247
Pat  MEANDER/*tupe*  84,  BOOZE  55
Deanna   WHARF  22,  AT  23

Pat   436   Nate   270
Pat   MOST  50,  DEARTHS  83
Nate  CRANIAL  66,  JAM and SIZE  39

Dave  399  Denny  319
Dave  MUSSIER  62,  INFORMS  88
Denny  EDITOR  33,  WEBBY  45

Dan  428   Kim  280
Dan  SNOWIER  76,  TICKETING  45
Kim  FONT  29,  MOJO  33

Matt   422   Pat  281
Matt   PEATIER  67,  YAWNERS  79
Pat  BESIDES  86,  TRULY  42

[Deanna Stacy]

There were 8 Scrabblers at MHM on Tuesday--Dan Heck, Dave Hurd, Matt Ridout, James Ferguson, Denny Ashby, Lynn Hiller, Nate Sullivan, and Deanna Stacy.

James      3-0     414
Matt        3-0     266
Deanna    2-1    226
Denny      1-2    (150)
Lynn        1-2    (200)
Dave       1-2    (314)
Nate       0-2     (85)
Dan       0-2     (157)

James   448   Dave  231
James  *buntles*  81,   SEANCES  88
Dave  WIVERN  29,  SWAGE  33

Matt  398   Denny  252
Matt  XI  44,  RELATER  85
Denny  RAP  24,  BAILOUT  70

James   387    Nate   346
James  ERADIATE  76,  WO  44
Nate OOZIEST  75,  SLANDER   75

Dave  364   Dan   342
Dave   JANE  41,   STRINGS  70
Dan  KEYSTONE  67,   CAMS  42

Matt   382   Deanna   381
Matt   UNCTUOUS  60,   PLEASED  83
Deanna   STILLER  86,   HARP   36

Matt   387   Dave   268
Matt   OLEANDER   72,  NIX  39
Dave  CLOSERS  66,  RIGHTY  26

Deanna   408   Dan   273
Deanna   TAILORS  63,   MELENAS  76
Dan   *bleah*  24,  OF and CASTE  26

Lynn   356   Nate   312
Lynn  SEATING  67,  QUILL  26
Nate  FILE  35,  FOINS  and   WEB  29

Denny   470   Lynn   318
Denny  PIDDLER   75,  GRAFTING  98
Lynn  DYNEL  39,  *eaving*   42

Deanna   372   Lynn   280
Deanna   RUDDERS  68,  PYE  37
Lynn  JUN  37,  STACKS  43

James   469   Denny   313
James   EGLATERE   68,   TOASTIER  70
Denny   CLOVE  34,  TONTINES   74

Dave Hurd brought a Des Moines Register article from Friday, Sept. 3, about Pat Boddy's son Andy Davis, who is an art student at the Kansas City Art Institute. He was one of 6 students in the nation chosen for an art residency at the Kimball Art Center in Utah. One of his pieces sold for $2500 at an auction. Congratulations to Andy and Pat!!!

[(a]

       Thanks for the report, D, but I noticed a real oddity.  James 3-0?  Matthew 3-0???   How can that happen, boys?  Shouldn't, after three hours of Scrabble, one of you two have a black mark on his record somewhere?  I am sorry that I didn't make club last night (work in the way again) but next Tuesday, when I do show, I will drag you two to a board by your scruffs and someone is going to have a loss! 

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[Matthew Ridout]

The two you need to be maoning that weren't paired off are James and DEANNA, not James and me.  I outdrew Deanna badly in our game, bingoed twice - one spelled with 3 u's - and won by 1.  I got outplayed.  In fact, I figured mathematically out that with one tile on Deanna's rack, I could not win if she knew or would've tried T(AWED),  I blocked with the far less certain R(AWE)D* as my only shot.  A challenge there and it's Deanna who's 3-0. If she could fit closer to twice a week into her schedule, I think she'd own us all.

Matthew
 

 
 
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From: (a <drc...@aol.com>
Subject: Tuesday oddity
To: deanna...@hotmail.com, dmscr...@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 1:36 PM

       Thanks for the report, D, but I noticed a real oddity.  James 3-0?  Matthew 3-0???   How can that happen, boys?  Shouldn't, after three hours of Scrabble, one of you two have a black mark on his record somewhere?  I am sorry that I didn't make club last night (work in the way again) but next Tuesday, when I do show, I will drag you two to a board by your scruffs and someone is going to have a loss! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Deanna Stacy <deanna...@hotmail.com>
To: dmscr...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 10:23 pm
Subject: Tuesday Scrabble

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[Deanna Stacy]

Thanks Matt, but you left out the part that I played the phony *turkies.* How embarrassing. If I wouldn't have lost that turn, I may have won. It was my own fault.
 
> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:16:37 -0700
> From: rido...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Tuesday oddity
> To: dmscr...@googlegroups.com

[(a]

        "*Turkies*" is not even close to my most embarrassing play.  I was playing a tournament in Minnesota back in '06.  I have a comfortable lead of fifty points and a rack that will give me a forty point play in one of two places on either of two Triple Word Score openings.  The word "NO" is positioned just to the left of the bottom right Triple Word Score, one of my two places to play.  My opponent plays QUADS, hooking the S for NOS, for 57 points.  The game is near its end and all I have to do is take my forty point play and dink out a win. 
      But, as one's mind is wont to do, it looked funny.  NOS.  That isn't right, is it?  It just looked funny.  After a careful two-seconds of consideration, I punched the clock for a challenge, and then, as one's mind is wont to do, I see how good NOS is.  To complete my humiliation, I decide to take the trip to the only Word Judge computer in the room, situated right next to the Division One players, with some faint hope that NOS is no good.   As the word is typed in, I hear a snicker and a whispered, "Look!", coming from a nearby board.  Two D-1 players are smiling broadly at me.  Other players soon caught the odor of my gaffe and chuckled along. 
      Red-faced, I returned to the board where my opponent quickly ruined my forty point play.  For the record, I did end up winning somehow by a few points, but, I felt like a loser.  I am sure that "The Dope who Challenged NOS" was the talk of between games that day.  *Turkies* is nothing, D. 
    Anyone else with an embarrassing story they would like to share?

[Matthew Ridout]

Deanna's TURKIES* reminded me I once played MONKIES*.  I don't remember if it got challenged off, oddly.   At my first ArdenCup, I made the mistake of (mis)pronouncing in my mind an opponent's-- BINGERS.  Instead of [BIN-jerz], I went with BING-like-a-cherry -ERS.  I didn't even have the sense to be embarrassed until my opponent asked me about it, and in doing so, pronounced the word correctly.   George will remember this one, since it was against him in Sioux Falls- The first time I ever played him, I challenged MORALES.  I thought he'd misspelled MORALS.  Halfway to the challenge computer, I stopped cold in my tracks, lowered my head and abashedly said something like, "Never mind, your turn."  I'm pretty sure George went on to crush me.   Matthew

[Shane Schulte]

I believe it was a drubbing I took from James online, but I actually bingoed with "BULLSHIT".  Proud moment in my scrabble career.

SHANE P. SCHULTE
515.208.0457
http://biznik.com/members/shane-schulte

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.  - Mark Twain, 1890

[Deanna Stacy]

Thamks, everyone, for sharing your most embarrassing Scrabble moments. I really feel so much better now.
 

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:25:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Plays
From: shanep...@gmail.com
To: rido...@yahoo.com
CC: dmscr...@googlegroups.com

[Dan Heck]

First tournament ever, in Johnston, I'm playing Mike Wagner, who attempts FANNIES as a bingo by hooking with an S to make TONALS.  Of course, FANNIES is good, but I successfully challenge TONALS.  Then, you'd think I'd have remembered that he had those letters and tried to close off potential bingo lanes, or at least not create a new one, right?  Wrong!  Embarrassing play of my career:  I play VOW, leaving a perfect bingo triple-word-score lane for Mike to play the very same word FANNIES, except this time hooking with the A for AVOW.

 

Duh!  LOL!
 

Dan Heck

President, Helium Enterprises

Central Iowa Mensa Newsletter Editor

Phone - (515) 277-5434

Email - danie...@rocketmail.com

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From: Shane Schulte <shanep...@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Ridout <rido...@yahoo.com>
Cc: dmscr...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, September 9, 2010 9:25:07 AM
Subject: Re: Embarrassing Plays

[(a]

        Good stories.  D, they SHOULD make you feel better.  We all pull dumb ones sometimes and the best thing to do is own it and laugh. 
        Matthew brought up George Asaka and I always love George's story of playing in a tournament and at the next table, a woman played *SUV*.  George thought that was pretty funny until the woman's opponent says, "Nice play."  This really cracked George up.  What he REALLY loved was on the next play.  The opponent hooks an S to make *SUVS*!  The woman replies, "Great play!". 
        You gotta love this game.