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#player1 JJB John J. Bulten
#player2 LW Laura Wolfson
>JJB: FMNOTXY 8G FOXY +34 34
#note 0:36 [24:24]
>LW: ACGLMSY 7H GAMY +31 31
#note 1:00 [24:00] Excellent overlap; gym 9f 29 has a better leave and rates 2.8 ahead in static value.
>JJB: DMNORTT K3 MONT. +20 54
#note 1:03 [23:21] Motty# 20 is .8 better.
>LW: ACLNRSU 9J CURL +17 48
#note 2:51 [21:09] The first 9-letter opportunity of the game plays at h3 for 63; this is 35.0 above LW's play even with ANS worth 11.0. If the bingo is not found, points can be achieved with clan or crus l1 26, or better leave with lun(a) or cur l2 or even un l3.
>JJB: DEIORTV 3I VO.IT +28 82
#note 2:37 [20:44] JJB also misses the L column, which takes void for 34 (5.6 diff); he has the slightly better leave though.
>LW: AAKNOQS L2 Q.N +28 76
#note 0:48 [20:21] The difference is slight, but the Q is playable enough that several power plays with the K rank up to 3.0 better (krona l8 28, koans/kaons 10f 34, koan(s) n2, kaon n1 27, oaks 8l 32, koas 6f 32).
>JJB: ADEENOR M7 RE.OANED +70 152
#note 0:33 [20:11] Incidentally, Quackle also finds endogamy 22.
>LW: AAIKLOS 12H KAOLI. +30 106
#note 2:59 [17:22] Lots of points are available with n10: kaal# 40, sika 45 with curli#, or skio# 45, rated up to 4.4 higher. Koala n2 33 is also interesting and slightly better.
>JJB: DEGNOST J2 G.D +13 165
#note 1:50 [18:21] JJB suspects a bingo but it only plays through an O. He neglects the well-known vomito, such as with toged# 33 (11.0 better). ENOST rates 19.7 and may be the best leave, but god/dog 21 leaves ENST, almost as good a leave.
>LW: AEENOST H12 .ENO +24 130
#note 0:57 [16:25] Straightforward.
>JJB: EEINOST 2L .IN +26 191
#note 3:19 [15:02] This situation calls for dumping vowels; oe n3 13 rates 10.5 ahead, while onesie# n10 41 is an impressively pointed overlap. JJB's leave is only worth 4.9.
>LW: AEELOST 6C OLEATES +73 203
#note 0:41 [15:44] Good play; a little calculating would find one more point at 10d.
>JJB: EEIOSTU 1M TUI +14 205
#note 3:46 [11:16] JJB still lacks a bingo and can only see to block what would score higher for LW; but his leave is in fact negative. Ute n10 22 uses a spot that also would score higher for LW, removes duplication, and has the score, evaluating 11.9 better. Euoi# plays at 7a for the best leave.
>LW: BEFGHIL N10 FIE +40 243
#note 0:30 [15:14] Fie 40 is fine on score but not on leave. Fib and life n8 leave better, but behalf 11j 41 is clever, and bhel# n10 43 works out best (by 8.2).
>JJB: EEIOSVZ O12 SIZE +55 260
#note 0:45 [10:31] Of course column N allows even higher responses, of which this simple one is available. Zees 5e 57 is even more points but behind on leave. The best synergy is zee 5e 50 (1.8 ahead), but voidee# 36 and evzone 38 are worth considering for other balances.
>LW: ABEGHLR 5C BAH +32 275
#note 1:26 [13:48] Nice overlap, but three quadruples play, for up to 18.5 more! Herbage 52, heelbar# 48, beagler 40.
>JJB: CEIORVW I11 V.W +22 282
#note 2:33 [7:58] JJB entertains hopes of a bingo leave, but vow 7a 25 is quite a better leave, and vower plays there for 36 (8.1 better than vaw).
>LW: AEGLPRR G13 PEG +25 300
#note 0:40 [13:08] Now best ranking is gaper 7a 30 (10.1 diff), but both players hesitate to open column A.
>JJB: CDEIORS D4 C..ORISED +102 384
#note 0:27 [7:31] This time the bingo is one of the few that JJB set aside as Collins keywords, and it's a quadruple. (The only other Collins bingo that came out of JJB's study was telecons# in a club game, which scored a nonuple.) This word also wins JJB the Mojica prize for highest division score with 4 letters from MOJICA. LW has her work cut out for her, and two blanks remain.
>LW: ADJLRRU 10B JU. +26 326
#note 2:39 [10:29] LW needs to turn over the liquids in this rack, such as jurel 11a 24, juror 7a 25, or dural c9 28, which yield up to 7.6 more value.
>JJB: AAEHITU E10 THAE +38 422
#note 0:46 [6:45] Best is hutia# c9 38, by 4.3. JJB is wary of haute e11 29 and uses a hook well, but haute actually rates better because AIU is 10.3 behind AI.
>LW: AADLNRR -AR +0 326
#note 1:19 [9:10] LW thinks of trading to the blank-heavy bag before JJB does, but she trades only the duplicates (which play for 11 as ora 7d), leaving a rack worth 3.1. Trading all but R evaluates at 11.1, whereas the simple overlap adorn 7b 24 is worth 31.7 (28.6 diff).
>JJB: AEIITUW -AIIUW +0 422
#note 0:46 [6:45] JJB takes the hint and has no problem trading here, although he miscalculates: usually ET is better than E but here the blank chances make E better by 1.4. A few triples score even better, with wait o7 27 worth 6.3 more than his trade.
>LW: ?AADLNR F14 DA +19 345
#note 1:42 [7:28] Incredibly, LW gets another chance to bingo through a different go! The word galdragon# 86 is a welcome addition to vocabulary, although it would not win if JJB holds a bingo also. She makes the best 2-tile dump (only 37.4 behind the 9-letter word), but adorn 24 is still several points ahead.
>JJB: ?EPRRST O4 PRESoRT +89 511
#note 0:52 [3:57]
>LW: ?AEILNR B10 .AILER +26 371
#note 6:39 [0:49] This endgame is complex, and LW's play scores the most this turn, but it allows opponent a higher reply before going out (jailer 26, braw 39, nos 14+4 nets 5 to LW). JJB's best threats otherwise are bow 30 and bawr# 27, and blocking both may be absolute best to LW: rone# 7c 19, aw n5 28, which sets up liard/liars/liart# 24+10, with net of 25.
>JJB: ABIUW 15A B.AW +39 550
#note 0:35 [3:22]
>LW: ?N 7C N.s +14 385
#note 0:25 [0:24]
>LW: (IU) +4 389
#note Both players created such openings that many higher-scoring plays were available even with 939 combined score; that includes 3 9-letter bingos. LW, however, had the unique distinction of having two opportunities to play through the word go, in different places (clangours and galdragon#)! JJB capitalizing on his opportunity and being able to bingo again made most of the difference. Points improvable based on tiles played: JJB 0, LW 32. Points improvable based on values: JJB 60.3, LW 176.6.
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