LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR JUNE 13, 2013
PLAYER RATING WINS LOSSES AVERAGE
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1 Sinna Vijayakumar 1766 18 4 442
2 Richard Buck + 1758 61 30 424
3 Steven Saul - 1746 74 36 419
4 Mike Wolfberg 1739 81 36 418
5 Mark Fidler - 1737 72 34 405
6 Jake Bergmann + 1736 62 30 413
7 Joel Horn + 1735 149 69 416
8 Carl Durdan - 1727 7 4 391
9 Larry Katz + 1723 81 63 390
10 Wes Eddings - 1714 51 22 397
PLAYER RATING WINS LOSSES AVERAGE RANK
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Adukia, Ranji 1557 3 15 366 28
Allen-Munley, Cheryl 1623/5 1 4 368
Aronie, Emmanuel 1613 5 7 351 23
Becker, Bob 1705/A 45 20 403
Bersani, Janet 1475 2 10 323 32
Blanchard, Susan 1666/A 2 4 383
Burroughs, Sarah 1481/4 0 4 323
Cable, Cole 1338 1 10 269 33
Cable, Matthew UNR 1 1 365
Cassel, Claudia - 1616 42 92 347 21
Choslovsky, Marla 1590/A 1 3 308
Cole, Judy 1695/A 21 16 381
Conti, Jane 1636/A 6 12 378
Day, Catherine 1563 18 63 335 27
Day, Jesse 1828/A 3 1 433
DeFilippo, John 1623/A 1 1 388
Dubach, Joev - 1705 1 4 377 12
Exter, Jared 1377/7 0 7 290
Finn, Marshall 1611/A 6 13 342
Giovinazzo, Linda + 1615 31 47 354 22
Goldstein, Marc + 1593 15 26 357 25
Gonzales, Steven 1574 28 84 330 26
Greenberg, Morris 1739/A 7 5 405
Gupta, Ruchi 1842/4 3 1 416
Hass, Trevor 1499/A 1 2 339
Horn, Judy + 1697 120 85 397 14
Janota-Bzowski, Marek 1550/A 7 18 342
Kaitz, Merrill 1762/A 22 5 403
Kirchhausen, Susan 1689 13 13 375 15
Kraus, Marvin - 1651 50 89 370 18
Kt., Trx. - 1600 51 114 348 24
Krycka, James 1508 6 28 323 29
Kulig, Chris + 1675 89 89 392 16
Lambert, Rebecca 1706 35 15 411 11
Lichtenstein, Bob 1631/A 10 13 361
Lober, George UNR 1 1 314
Lutts, Tim 1669 24 27 376 17
Marshall, Norma + 1501 9 51 313 30
McClory, Sharon 1435/7 0 7 309
McDonald, Carol + 1704 83 51 398 13
Mead, Jere 1794/A 4 3 450
Melvin, Cheryl 1652/A 3 3 347
Spiller, Diana 1640/A 22 26 375
Terpening, Devon 1485 4 15 317 31
Weinstein, Ian 1800/6 1 1 415
Wood, Betsey 1634 22 31 373 19
Yorra, Wayne 1623 28 35 365 20
There were 18 players in attendance when we last met on June 6, 2013.
Congratulations to Joel for having the high-above-average game last
week, in which he scored 580, 39.5% above his average, against one of the
top ten players in the club. In this game, Joel made a 212-point
triple-triple at by going through the G which was a blank; his
word, played at 15H, was PAgaNIZE.
Other high scores: Larry 530, Chris K. 505 and 503
High losing scores: Joev 423 to Carol McDonald 435, Joel 417 to Marvin 427
High rating increase: Marc G. +16
These are the words challenged or considered last week:
FE, ALM, AMA, BEH, DAH, HOBS, VAIR, LEDES, MURKY, VITAS, CRAMPY, SMERKY,
SMIRKY, SMURKY, TUNEUP, CHORIST, MUTULES, ROPINGS, TELLIES, AVAUNTED,
BALEOUTS, CHANKERS, DEBRADED, EXISTERS, FOMENTER, LUSTABLE, DEMONLESS
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FE+ (EF), (LAM), AMA, DAH (HAD), HOBS (BOSH), VAIR, (DELES), MURKY,
(VISTA), CRAMPY+, SMIRKY, TUNEUP, (OSTRICH), MUTULES (MUTUELS), (PROSING
SPORING), TELLIES, (ABSOLUTE), FOMENTER, (BALLUTES)
Notice above, there were several words played last week which were
unacceptable but with acceptable anagrams.
Quiz: There are 12 5-letter OWL2 words ending in ZA.
Four of these have 2 Zs. Four of these are foods.
There are four pairs of words starting with the same letter.
Jere pointed out that BOWDOIN anagrams to an OWL2 word, and I began
to look for other colleges which do this; here is a start: BRANDEIS,
NOTRE DAME, EMERSON, CLARKE (3), TULANE (2), TEMPLE, AMHERST,
SIMMONS (2), IONA, PACE, BUCKNELL. Let me, Mike W., know of others.
The 10 most probable 7-letter words with 2 Us have these 5 other
letters: LRAEO, RSTAE, LNRAE, NSTEO, NRSAO (2), CTAEO, NVAEO, NRSIO (2)
In case you like very unusual and unlikely words, here is one for you:
UNUNUNIUM
This is a place-holder name of the element whose atomic number is 111.
This element is now named Roentgenium. There are no other OWL2 9-letter
words with 4 'U's. TUMULTUOUS is a 10-letter word, as is UNUNUNIUMS.
UNUNUNIUM is one of the 9 9-letter words you can type with your right
hand only. A common word of this class is POLYPHONY.
UNUNUNIUM and its plural are the only examples of a word in OWL2 and
long words which begin with 3 sequential identical pairs of letters.
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