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#player1 CCD Clay Daniel
#player2 JJB John J. Bulten
>CCD: JO 8G JO +18 18
#note 0:38 [24:22] JJB returns to the third 10@10 tournament as the defending champion, having won the second one three years ago. It is scaled back this year and only nine participants registered, at which point the host, Steve Gawtry, graciously stepped aside so there can be an even number. JJB has arrived with his foot wrapped after an injury on the way to the tournament, and is having trouble walking on it, so he is assigned a permanent seat and is allowed to keep his foot up; he can wheel over to see the challenge computer, or hobble to it. The first seven rounds are round robin and JJB gets to face organizer CCD, who hides his bingo rack with a high 2-tile play.
>JJB: CFIIMRT H4 FRIC.T +15 15
#note 0:57 [24:03] (rift i5 21 +8.6) JJB is convinced there's a longer perpendicular, and there is: it's motific 15. Behind that in static leave are formic and comfit. But JJB's disarming play in his haste neglects the hook, rift/jot 18, with leave as good as motific.
>CCD: ?ADEIOR 5E pRE.ADIO +82 100
#note 1:07 [23:15] JJB sets up the quadruple for CCD, but even rift would still have allowed airdrome in the same place; reordain also plays on this board. CCD jumps to 100 first.
>JJB: IMOSTUX 4L MIXT +36 51
#note 1:52 [22:11] (mux 6l 32 +6.7) JJB simply needs to amend mix to mux to improve his leave significantly for 4 points less upfront. 6l and 4l are the same. No hook either, as mix has. Alternates to consider: sixmo/fricots, ostium/od/si/to.
>CCD: HOUY O1 YOU.H +33 133
#note 1:35 [21:40] CCD seizes on the second big opening by JJB; but then opponent will generally claim 2 out of 3 undirected openings eventually.
>JJB: AAOSUVY F2 OVA.Y +21 72
#note 2:02 [20:09] (you i8 23 +.4) Slightly higher on points is you/joy/to; pluralizing fricot with e.g. savoy now falls behind. JJB is also blissfully unconscious, unlike CCD, of the fact that ovary takes a hook. He's busy trying to remember what word this would be a near-gram of (savoury, vouvrays) or one letter off of (paduasoy, vanadous, vavasour, vavasory) but can't quite put those non-gos together either.
>CCD: Q M3 Q. +22 155
#note 0:41 [20:59] CCD is now nearing bingo tiles and can clear the Q alone without fuss.
>JJB: ACIKPSU 10D PUCKS +31 103
#note 3:35 [16:34] (pucka 1d 62 +45.0; pucks 1d 62 +31) JJB finally sees the row 10 play, though suk, kapus, pikas, etc. are better. But he does not see that his same play gets doubled by using c/ovary, nor that pucka from the hook list is an even better play by far. CCD later says he was sure JJB was setting up a C play, but it didn't get used: big opportunity.
>CCD: AEEW 3C WEA.E +24 179
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>JJB: AAEISTU D10 .AUA +12 115
#note 1:34 [15:00] JJB dutifully checks 5-voweled 8s, but after drawing 3 vowels to AI there is none available; he makes a fine dump instead, much better than his observations of juke/jake(st).
>CCD: DMO 4B DOM +25 204
#note 1:51 [17:58] There are now many bingo lines available, but CCD doesn't find a word on any of them and maintains a good leave for 25 points.
>JJB: EFIIIST 7H .ITIFIES +65 180
#note 0:21 [14:39] JJB ecstatically finds the only bingo, and it has 3 Is. He later comments that finities* was possible, but CCD informs him that is not in the dictionary of record; the only other word is fixities. JJB only trails by 24 now.
>CCD: ELNOSTT E9 L.NT +14 218
#note 4:16 [13:42] (to 8n 14 +6.7) CCD recognizes tonlets, which admits only EW (notelets, townlets), and concludes after some time there is no bingo. On this rack Quackle would play the word to, 14, at the triple, given its love of consonant clusters like ELNST +19.3; it rates the "balanced" EOST at only +12.6.
>JJB: BDEGGOR L7 .ROGGED +28 208
#note 4:14 [10:25] (sogged o7 33 +7.5) JJB sees sogged/sorbed 33, but something about them doesn't look best to him and he sacks a few points. Quackle's order of preference is sogged, fogged, frogged, sorbed, while gob/gan/out/ba 27 gets second place among them.
>CCD: EILNOST 8N LO +14 232
#note 0:50 [12:52] (lentoids 13f 72 +29.6) CCD now has entoils/onliest, but this time there are playable bingos. JJB has to look up his older mnemonic list to find that he selected onliest: Punch and Vrow (referring to Punch and Judy). This would reveal lentoids and looniest/la/oe (the anagram of oilstone). CCD misses this chance, losing a crucial tempo but keeping ahead by fits and starts; he plays the best fish.
>JJB: BBEEELW 13G WEBBE. +21 229
#note 2:05 [8:20] (web m12 27 +4.7) JJB decides to make another big turnover of his duplicates, using only double-letter scores. The leave after web/ew/de is not so bad, and several plays stagger around 40% win odds; bedew 22 seems to be the best dynamic compromise, while webbed edges out web.
>CCD: EINST H12 T.IN +15 247
#note 1:35 [11:17] (it i7 12 +3.7) Now CCD is getting concerned about lack of plays on an open board. He plunks down the triple, though he holds tein 14h 20 for a 4-overlap play, and it/jot 12 seems to leave him with bingo tiles still. But simulation seems to favor CCD's judgment, placing tein 15 above these, while en 12g 11 may increase him further from 53% to 58%.
>JJB: AEEILRT B4 .ETAILER +63 292
#note 1:09 [7:11] (elaterin 15a 77 +14) And JJB now has a strong bingo rack, but feels a bit of time pressure. He holds tein, proforma (its a Kazakh coin, with tyiyn the Kyrghyz version), and doesn't go on to remember the anagram of entailer/treenail, which he has reviewed repeatedly. It's still a lead to reckon with.
>CCD: ENSV 8A V.NE +24 271
#note 1:24 [9:53] CCD may be holding nervines 86/62 or environs/innerves 65/62, but his full rack is unrecorded. Now that he has a V, seizing a triple isn't that weak a play.
>JJB: ADGHLPZ C13 ZAP +50 342
#note 1:10 [6:01] (zag c13 48 +1.5) Now JJB finally gets to use his own opening to lead by 71. Quackle would rather dump the G in this endgame.
>CCD: AEINORS 15H .ONARIES +77 348
#note 1:01 [8:52] CCD takes the lead back by 6, but must empty the bag to do so. Who gets the blank?
>JJB: ?ADGHLN A10 HANGeD +40 382
#note 4:52 [1:09] (longhand 2e 68+10 +56) JJB makes a winning play with hanged, and declines to take the risk of hagdon 43 at this time because it's not 100% safe in his mind (it's a seabird); but then hading 43 would have been 100% safe. But better than all is to bingo, and JJB didn't even look for longhand 68 or longhead 66, which fit in row 2.
>CCD: ENRSU N10 ENSUR. +16 364
#note 0:37 [8:15]
>CCD: (L) +2 366
#note In a tightly fought game, JJB drew the blank at 3/8 chances when there were 8 in the bag to secure the victory; CCD's miss of lentoids/looniest was not as bad as JJB's misses of pucka/covary, elaterin, and longhand/longhead, but the tiles leaned toward JJB even as both made two bingos. Known points available: CCD 0, JJB 101. Overall points available: CCD 40.0+, JJB 144.6.
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