1st Thomas Reinke started the new club season in the same way he ended the last one, in first place, this time with a 3-1 +376 final tally and a 478 average game score. His high score of the night was against Helen Flores, 512-275, thanks to bingo finds of ANISETTE and SILVEXES (SILVEX is a type of herbicide, so has the conventional -ES plural, not the -ICES plural seen in words like INDEX->INDICES or SCOLEX->SCOLICES). Helen found RESITES in her losing effort. Thomas' only loss of the evening came against Mark Kenas, a high-scoring affair (typical of the international Collins dictionary) which ended in a score of 474-516. A nice nine-letter bingo of IMITATIVE was the jewel in Thomas' crown, but Mark was on a bingo spree of his own with SCROUGES, FRENULAR, and a 111-point DOWNSIZE.
2nd Mark Kenas achieved a 3-1 +221 record, those three wins being a somewhat rare feat given that his choice of dictionary dooms him to playing the Reinkes and nobody else. Spreading bingos across the board like a majestic peacock, Mark easily handled Charles Reinke in round one, winning 553-411. Seven total bingos were played in the game, five of them Mark's: BORNITE, SIENNAS, TRAGICAL, LAKESIDE, and NAEVOID. Charles got down SPURTED and FORESAW. A second matchup against Charles ended in much the same result: Mark's win, 432-343, with Collins-only bingos of BEDRITE# and PORLOCK#. Mark's loss came against Thomas Reinke, 431-483. Thomas played the snazzy double-Z bingo of SNAZZIER in that one, but failed to invoke the little-known rule that any play made with two Z's automatically scores 500 points and instantly ends the game. (That was a joke and there is no such rule, but your friends and family don't know that if you want to try it out on them.)
| Standings | |
| Thomas Reinke | 3-1 +376 |
| Mark Kenas | 3-1 +221 |
| Charles Reinke | 2-2 +11 |
| Dennis Lloyd | 1-0 +50 |
| David Kinzer | 1-2 -91 |
| Richard Lauder | 1-3 -43 |
| Helen Flores | 1-3 -524 |
| Bingos | ||
| Mark Kenas | 12 | BORNITE SIENNAS TRAGICAL LAKESIDE NAEVOID YIELDERS HOGTIES BEDRITE# PORLOCK# SCROUGES FRENULAR DOWNSIZE |
| Thomas Reinke | 10 | TANNERS VINEYARD ALECOST# SNAZZIER INCONIE# ANISETTE SILVEXES IMITATIVE SATIATED REGNANT |
| Charles Reinke | 8 | SPURTED FORESAW ELONGATE SERIEMA DEAIRING LATESTS OBVIATED REKINDLE |
| Richard Lauder | 7 | REBOOTS COTTERS ORIENTAL TAGETES OUTLIERS NEOLITHS dialator |
| Helen Flores | 4 | PATIENT SEMINAL RESITES drapings |
| David Kinzer | 1 | UNINVITED |
| High Games | |
| 561 | Charles Reinke |
| 553 | Mark Kenas |
| 516 | Mark Kenas |
| 512 | Thomas Reinke |
| 483 | Thomas Reinke |
| Most bingos/game | |
| 3 | Mark Kenas |
| 2.5 | Thomas Reinke |
| 2 | Charles Reinke |
| 1.75 | Richard Lauder |
| 1 | Helen Flores |
| High Average Bingo Score | |
| 86 | David Kinzer |
| 82 | Mark Kenas |
| 81 | Charles Reinke |
| 77 | Thomas Reinke |
| 69 | Richard Lauder |
| High Averages | |
| 483 | Mark Kenas |
| 478 | Thomas Reinke |
| 424 | Charles Reinke |
| 392 | Dennis Lloyd |
| 373 | Richard Lauder |
| Low Opponent Averages | |
| 342 | Dennis Lloyd |
| 383 | Richard Lauder |
| 384 | Thomas Reinke |
| 389 | David Kinzer |
| 422 | Charles Reinke |
| High Scoring Bingos | ||
| 111 | DOWNSIZE | Mark Kenas |
| 99 | PORLOCK | Mark Kenas |
| 98 | NAEVOID | Mark Kenas |
| 93 | INCONIE | Thomas Reinke |
| 92 | ALECOST | Thomas Reinke |
| Session Averages | |
| Avg. Game Score | 409 |
| Avg. Winning Score | 455 |
| Avg. Losing Score | 362 |
| Avg. Bingo Score | 77 |
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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