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     LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR JUNE 13, 2013

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------
     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
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------   ----
    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
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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