(April 28, 2024) 12 Tile-Slingers plus two new players that we welcomed this past Sunday afternoon, all squaring, shaking, making, and taking an opportunity to enjoy a few games of Scrabble.
Rusty admits he’s a little rusty when it comes to playing the game, but hung in there nicely. So did Maria, whose daughter saw one of our Scrabble bumper stickers and encouraged her mom to give it a try!
Christine had a 427 win for her last game of the afternoon. OPERATE was good for 70, and ERASION for 71. ERASION and ATONIES are among the most common bingoes played in Scrabble.
Suzanne finished off her afternoon with a nice win, and was “Bingoless* in Asheville” which is unusual for her.
I was 2-3 today, with 4 bingoes.
Ruchi was 3-3, and of 8 bingoes MONGERED (86) scored the most and gave me pause. I accept the play. She had a bingo-bango-bongo earlier! Clearly IMPREGNS was the most unusual, so, as Johnny Carson would say, “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.”
Trish won half her games, had two final scores over 400 and had four bingoes. To see QADIS go down for 72 was painful. Painful for her opponent, me! DUELLED like TRAVELLED, can be one L or two, but it does look a little strange.
Kurt won half the time as well, finding DIARIES and SERENADE.
Leslie was 3-2, playing NAILERS, ASSORTED, ROASTED, and HARNESS. WAKE for 48!
Louis would have been 4-1 were it not for his high loss of 393 in a game he only lost by three points! Among his 7 bingoes were two consecutive ones for what we have been known to call a Bingo-Bango. He played AUTHORS (89) for the high play of the day. TEXTED for 60 as well!
Jay J. only lost once, and found ABRASIVE and TORCHED, as well as getting 49 for BORIC.
Lorraine was 4-1, with 7 bingoes. DITHERER is unusual. Lorraine beat the highest-rated player at club today!
Mark only lost once, had a 574 high win, and played SPAZ for 105, probably the highest non-bingo play at club for quite a while! While playing his 10 bingoes, he managed a bingo-bango-bongo with STAGIER, WORRIES, and ORIENTED.
Undefeated? George M. after having a great day at club last week, could not manage to lose a single game this week! His first game was a 467 win, and 5 bingoes certainly helped his afternoon.
We did learn that we need to leave our playing room as we found it, which will mean putting up chairs and tables at the end of the afternoon. I think we could quietly begin doing that before the very last games finish.
We are reintroducing the posting of two PowerPoints slides shows each week, one to learn common 7-letter bingoes, and one for the 8’s as well. They are located on the “Bingos” page of the website www.ashevillescrabble.com . And don’t forget to look for the PowerPoints that remind you of the new words just approved earlier in the year, which you can find on the “Study” page of the website.
Hope to see many of you next week!
Results
(standings, averages, highs, all bingos & non-bingos)
Z Sunday Scrabble Rapport
