Mike Wolfberg's 701-Point Game
July 9, 1990 - Boston, MA Scrabble® Club #59
This stood as Mike's highest-scoring game in which he played no phonies
for about 17 years. However, he accepted his opponent's phony without
noticing: When Keith played IT for his last move, Mike was so excited
about Keith's not blocking his one spot to get enough points to exceed
700, Mike did not notice the phony TATA formed on that move.
When Mike played LINGUA on his 13th move, he missed LANGUID at 2c.
It would have been his sixth bingo. It took Mike 13 more years
before he would play 6 bingos in one game, but his sixth bingo in
that game on 19-Aug-03 was an unchallenged phony. He subsequesntly
played a 6-acceptable-bingo game on 17-Nov-05.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
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1|= ' L I N G U A =|
2| - C O D G K |
3| - ' E V Z O N E |
4|' L C ' N E H|
5| Q u I N O A S B I L O|
6| " V O X H O W l S P|
7| T E D T A D O E E|
8|M E A N F A T E U R|
9|A R M I T ' S ' |
10| " Y E A S T I E R " |
11| J O E P D |
12|' U - R - '|
13| B ' I ' - |
14| - E " U N W A R I L Y |
15|= ' T F I A R|
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a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
Mike Wolfberg Keith
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trade 7 0 0 FATE 8f 14 14
TAD 7g 17 17 HOW 6h 27 41
QuINOAS 5b 87 104 lost challenge 0 41
BlOUSED k5 95 199 trade 4 0 41
AGONISE L1 84 283 lost challenge 0 41
EVZONE 3i 38 321 KEEL n2 16 57
YEASTIER 10e 65 386 lost challenge 0 57
HOPER o4 53 439 trade 6 0 57
SPRINT h10 27 466 OX 6e 52 109
UNWARILY 14g 82 548 LIVEN d4 31 140
FIAR 15L 49 597 JOE 11c 30 170
JUBE c11 26 623 lost challenge 0 170
LINGUA 1g 21 644 MEAN 5a 18 188
COD 2f 17 661 TED 7c 12 200
ARM 9a 22 683 IT 9f 14 214
COX f4 12 695
(G,I) 6
FINAL SCORE 701 212