This was our 43rd session of the season. We welcomed back our illustrious co director Monique Kornell from a six week hiatus to lands abroad. She came back to an empty house, however; With folks en route to the big tournament in Albuquerque, we had a light crowd of only seven folks. We played 15 games for the evening. 10,713 points were scored for a 714.3 points-per-game average and a 357.1 points-per-player-per-game average. We saw 21 bingos for the session. Of those, almost 24% (five of them) were phonies that went unchallenged.

Naurlene was the top player of the evening, turning in a perfect 6-0 scorecard. Both Gary Wagman and Lewis Saul turned in six bingos in five games and share the title of Bingo King for the evening. The "REplay" contest for the highest-scoring word that began with RE but could stand alone as a word without the RE prefix goes to Joshua Kassel with a 96-point opening phony of reboxes*. Naurlene won the Close Call contest for the closest win, barely beating out Gary Wagman in a 300-295 game. Josh and Naurlene both take home $3.

Despite a very common letter, only Gary Wagman scored in the Alphabet Bingo contest, which featured the letter S. No jackpots were nailed this session, and $0.88 will be added to each of them.

Next Session (18 September) will feature the following contests:
- "On the Up and Up" Contest - A prize will be awarded to the player who scores the most amount of points by playing a word beginning with UP (e.g., UP, UPON, UPROAR, UPTURNS, etc.). In order to qualify for this contest, a player mist play both the U and P tiles (blanks count). Extending a previously-played UP word does not count. (~a quarter of dues collected)
- "Out Play" Contest - A prize will be awarded to the player who scores the most amount of points with the final play of the game. In the case of a tie, the higher total game score will determine the winner. (~a quarter of dues collected)
- Triple-Triple Jackpot - $0.88 plus an eighth of the evening's dues will be awarded to any player(s) who scores a Triple-Triple Play.
- 600 Jackpot - $2.26 plus an eighth of the evening's dues will be awarded to the player to any player(s) who score 600 or more points in a game.
- 9+ Bingo Jackpot - $0.88 plus an eighth of the evening's dues will be awarded to any player(s) who scores a bingo containing nine or more letters. 
"Deja Bingo" Jackpot - $3.03 plus an eighth of the evening's dues will be awarded to any player(s) who plays the same bingo more than once in a session.
- Alphabet Bingo - The Alphabet Bingo letter for this session is "T." For each bingo you play that begins with the letter T, you score one point. Click here for rules. ($26 Jackpot)