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National Scrabble Association Club #565 (Northwest)
Club Results—2007– 2008 Season
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Session Results - January 27, 2008
| # | Name | Win-Loss | Spread | Bingos per Game | Points per Game | Club Rating new | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Knouse | 2-1 | +229 | 1.0000 | 384.3333 | 1257 | (+28) |
| 2 | Ed Saunders | 2-2 | -14 | 2.2500 | 375.5000 | 1522 | (0) |
| 3 | Carol Knouse | 1-2 | -215 | 0.0000 | 352.0000 | 1156 | (+9) |
Session Notes - January 27, 2008 Session
This session marked the twenty-fifth of NSA Club #565 (Northwest)'s 2007-2008 season!
With a few of our club members apparently still fried from the first of the Teeny Tiny Tournaments on Saturday, only three players showed up for the tournament division on Sunday. Elinor Horner came to the rescue and filled out the foursome for the day. Elinor played four games against the tournament division players and held her own throughout the day. All of her games were competitive.
The goodie table held some leftovers from the Saturday spread and nobody starved during the shorter-than-usual session.
The tournament rules division was joined by 3 players who played 10 games in which we scored 3,711 points for a 371.1 point-per-game average. Of the 12 recorded bingos we played, none were phoneys that went unchallenged.
Some numbers and whatnot for the tournament session include:
- High Game - 485 points by Ed Saunders
- Low Win - 354 points by Carol Knouse
- High Loss - 374 points by Carol Knouse (Opponent at 447)
- Bingo King - Ed Saunders for averaging 2.2500 bingos per game
Some interesting bingos:
- FIRELIT \adj. lighted by firelight (played by Ed Saunders)
- RICHENS \v. to make rich (played by Ed Saunders)
- TACRINE \n. a drug for treating Alzheimer's disease (played by Ed Saunders)
- Aintcha s'posed to challenge "EW", Ed? Ed Saunders found himself in an unusual position Sunday. Sitting with an ugly rack of IINRRT? late in a close game with not many bingo lines open and not much hope of scoring well with the letters on his rack, Ed watched his opponent play VET down from position B1 and hook the "E" in front of an existing "W", forming the phony word "EW". Realizing right away that the Scrabble gods had smiled upon him, Ed didn't even "hold" the play. He took one last look around the board and slowly laid down an "R" in front of the "EW", following with the remainder of his letters, R-I-T-I-N and making the blank a "G" to spell out REWRITING for 63 points and the eventual win. Sometimes it's good to let the phonies slide. . . .
- Weekly Anagram Challenge Ed Saunders gives us a double challenge this week. From a rack of EEINRST, Ed played the bingo ENTRIES, one of FOUR bingos in that rack. Can you come up with the other three? From a rack of ACEINRT, Ed played the bingo TACRINE since the three anagrams were not playable anywhere on the board. Can you rattle off the three that could not be played? (Answers in "Bingos" section below.)
We featured two regular contests and one repeat contest this week.
The first contest was The "V" Is For Victory Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that contains the letter "V" somewhere within it. With $2.25 up for grabs, Bob Knouse came up with VENT for 14, Ed Saunders was able to best that with WAVY for 21, but Carol Knouse wins the money with VET for 24 points
The second contest was A Word To The "Y"s Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that contains the letter "Y" somewhere within it. Ed Was able to show off his BODY for 27 pts, Bob came back with WEEDY for 28, but Carol made sure the AYES had it with 36 points on the play. Carol picks up another $2.25 to run her total for the week to $4.50.
The repeat contest was the "ABLE" Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that contains the letterS "A", "B", "L", and "E", in any order somewhere within it. Once again, no one was ABLE to come up with such a word this week so we'll run it again next time with $3.00 awaiting the eventual winner.
Ed Saunders picked off a couple of the Progressive Jackpots this week, scoring 111 on a double-double of RICHENS to win the 100+Point Play and the $1.68 that was in the pot. Ed also picks up the $8.59 for the 9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot with a 63 point play of REWRITING through the existing phony "EW". It pays to see how the opponent's play changes the board situation.
Ed's $10.27 winnings are donated back to the club kitty.
No one cashed in on either of the other Progressive Jackpots this week and each shall have $0.56 added to it. As of this session we have paid out $222.55 in prizes this season. Click here for a complete list of prizes awarded during the 2007-2008 season.
The next session (February 3, 2008) shall feature the following contests:
• The Electric Contest - A quarter of dues
collected shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring
play of a word that contains either the letters "A" and "C"
or the letters "D" and "C" (AC/DC) in either order anywhere
within it (e.g. CZAREVNA, RATICIDE, ACAJOUS, DRACHMS, CECROPIA, AQUEDUCT,
MAJOLICA, ASCIDIUM, etc.).
• "EAU" What A Contest - A quarter
of dues collected shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest
scoring play of a word that contains the letters "E", "A",
and "U" in any order somewhere within it. (e.g. YARMULKE, DASYURE,
JAMBEAUX, ULULATED, EXUVIAL, UNEQUAL, DULCINEA, TUNICATE, PARVENU, etc.)
• REPEAT - The "ABLE" Contest - $3.00
shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring play of
a word containing the letters "A", "B", "L",
and "E" in any order somewhere within it. (e.g. BLOVIATE, ARBELAST,
LABIATED, EDUCABLE, ABLEGATE, BEADLES, LAMBASTE, BARNACLE, ALBUMEN, EMBLAZON,
GAMBOLED, etc.)
•Triple-Triple Progressive Jackpot* - $5.42
plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who
scores a Triple-Triple
play.
•100+ Play Progressive Jackpot* - A sixteenth
of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores 100 or more
points in a single play
•Club 565 Progressive Jackpot - $16.63 plus
a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores
565 or more points in a single game.
•9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot* - A sixteenth
of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who plays a bingo of
9 or more letters in length.
* = Jackpot prizes cannot be combined.
Bingos
The following is a list of bingos played by players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest)
on January 27, 2008
Phony bingos are listed in red, lowercase.
Bob Knouse (3 bingos)
RETAINED (DETAINER)
SCANNERS
TRAINER (RETRAIN, TERRAIN)
Ed Saunders (11 bingos 9 tourn, 2 rec)
DECLARER
ENTRIES (ENTIRES, RETINES, TRIENES)
FIRELIT
MARAUDED
REWRITING
RICHENS (INCHERS)
SORENESS
TACRINE (CERATIN, DERTAIN, CREATIN)
ZANIEST
rec AERATOR
rec EXCRETED
- Click here for a list of all the bingos played by tournament division players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest) during the 2007-2008 Season
- Click here for a list of all the phony bingos played by tournament division players at NSA Club #565 (Northwest) during the 2007-2008 season
Combined Results for the August 2007 - July 2008 Season (as of January 27, 2008)
| Name (click for details) |
Club Rating |
Games Played |
Won | Lost | Win % |
Bingos Played |
Bingo Avg |
Phony Bingos Played |
Phony Bingo % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlock, Judy | 1302 | 94 | 36 | 58 | .383 | 122 | 1.298 | 9 | 7.377 |
| Janis Clem | 1393 | 30 | 14 | 16 | .467 | 27 | 0.900 | 3 | 11.11 |
| Yvonne Knickerbocker | 1421 | 6 | 2 | 4 | .333 | 6 | 1.000 | 0 | ----- |
| Knouse, Bob | 1257 | 48 | 17 | 31 | .354 | 25 | 0.521 | 0 | ----- |
| Knouse, Carol | 1156 | 47 | 10.5 | 36.5 | .223 | 14 | 0.298 | 1 | 7.143 |
| Kornell, Monique | 1502 | 45 | 25 | 20 | .556 | 54 | 1.200 | 5 | 9.259 |
| Dennis Levy | 1083 | 12 | 5 | 7 | .417 | 10 | 0.833 | 0 | ----- |
| Love, Marina | 748 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 | 1 | 0.333 | 0 | ----- |
| Lundeen, Karen | 1211 | 35 | 9 | 26 | .257 | 22 | 0.629 | 0 | ----- |
| Masel, Sandra | 1272 | 7 | 1 | 6 | .143 | 5 | 0.714 | 0 | ----- |
| Readle, Robert | 1046 | 5 | 2 | 3 | .400 | 5 | 1.000 | 0 | ----- |
| Rhodes, Michael | 1434 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .500 | 6 | 1.500 | 0 | ----- |
| Saunders, Ed | 1522 | 142 | 94 | 48 | .662 | 279 | 1.965 | 22 | 7.885 |
| Spence, Richard | 1617 | 87 | 64.5 | 22.5 | .741 | 146 | 1.678 | 9 | 6.164 |
| Strasberg, Harriet | 1457 | 5 | 3 | 2 | .600 | 7 | 1.400 | 0 | ----- |
| Club # 565 NW (15 Players) | 1295 | 570 | 285 | 285 | .500 | 729 | 1.279 | 49 | 6.721 |
Season Schedule and Past Session Results
NSA Club #565 (Northwest) meets each Sunday. The 2007-2008 schedule is below. Click on past dates for completed session results.
08/05/07 | 08/12/07 | 08/19/07 | 08/26/07 | 09/02/07 | 09/09/07 | 09/16/07 | 09/23/07 | 09/30/07 | 10/07/07 | 10/14/07 | 10/21/07 | Canceled | 11/04/07 | 11/11/07 | 11/18/07 | 11/25/07 | 12/02/07 | 12/09/07 | 12/16/07 | 12/23/07 | 12/30/07 | 01/06/08 | 01/13/08 | 01/20/08 | 01/27/08 | 02/03/08 | 02/10/08 | 02/17/08 | 02/24/08 | 03/02/08 | 03/09/08 | 03/16/08 | (Easter) | 03/30/08 | 04/06/08 | 04/13/08 | 04/20/08 | 04/27/08 | 05/04/08 | 05/11/08 | 05/18/08 | 05/25/08 | 06/01/08 | 06/08/08 | 06/15/08 | 06/22/08 | 06/29/08 | 07/06/08 | 07/13/08 | 07/20/08 | 07/27/08
The 500 and 600 Clubs and Triple-Triple Plays
| Name | 500 and 600 point games | Triple-Triple Plays |
|---|---|---|
| Judy Carlock | 532 | |
| Monique Kornell | 501 | ENACTING for 131 |
| Margaret Miller (Recreational) | TRASHING for 149 (rec) | |
| Ed Saunders | 599, 561, 555, 551, 532, 530, 530, 506, 504, 503, 500 | JACINTHS for 203 (rec) OVERNEAT for 149 |
| Richard Spence | 534, 528, 525, 506, 505 | CARRIAGE for 140 |
| Harriet Strasberg | 534 |