At the NSC 2010
What a great tournament!
One highlight was my game with Abdul Majid Khan.
Before the game I had been speaking to him in my version of Special English for Foreigners before I realized that was ridiculous. He is from Canada.
Abdul won with an out-bingo. There were a couple lines which appeared to me difficult to use, but he had a very good rack ?EELORS. The bag was empty as I recall. He put 'RELOOSE' so I challenged that off and played some word. and then he played RESOLVE on another line hooking his S onto STANK to make STANKS. I hoped that STANK was just the past tense of STINK, so I challenged it too, but the OSPD definition says a STANK is a pond and takes an S on the end. Therefore I lost!
After the last round I spoke with him again and he had lost a game trying to play NUClEAR onto an S and UNClEAR onto an S and asked me to solve it - I thought of CENTAURS right away but never thought of UNCRATES until I was reading the Word Book in an orthodontist's waiting room. Another anagram is RECUSANT. And never thought of LUCARNES til I asked Zyzzyva right now. I asked Abdul about his name and he said it is Pashtun from Pakistan, and I asked if English is his native language and he said it isn't. But he still beat me in Scrabble!
I like to make anamonics so : SURE-CAN -> HOT BOLD FOOD
H RAUNCHES
O NACREOUS
T CENTAURS,RECUSANT,UNCRATES
B UNBRACES
L LUCARNES
D DURANCES
F FURNACES
My bingos this tournament mostly weren't spectacular - BARRENLY stands out as one that scored a lot and got challenged. A semi accomplishment in the last round was that I didn't challenge AEIMNOSW even though it scored 92 and put me 126 behind, but then it took me too long to decide on it.
More later - must find way to get some money - forgot to have a profession!
One highlight was my game with Abdul Majid Khan.
Before the game I had been speaking to him in my version of Special English for Foreigners before I realized that was ridiculous. He is from Canada.
Abdul won with an out-bingo. There were a couple lines which appeared to me difficult to use, but he had a very good rack ?EELORS. The bag was empty as I recall. He put 'RELOOSE' so I challenged that off and played some word. and then he played RESOLVE on another line hooking his S onto STANK to make STANKS. I hoped that STANK was just the past tense of STINK, so I challenged it too, but the OSPD definition says a STANK is a pond and takes an S on the end. Therefore I lost!
After the last round I spoke with him again and he had lost a game trying to play NUClEAR onto an S and UNClEAR onto an S and asked me to solve it - I thought of CENTAURS right away but never thought of UNCRATES until I was reading the Word Book in an orthodontist's waiting room. Another anagram is RECUSANT. And never thought of LUCARNES til I asked Zyzzyva right now. I asked Abdul about his name and he said it is Pashtun from Pakistan, and I asked if English is his native language and he said it isn't. But he still beat me in Scrabble!
I like to make anamonics so : SURE-CAN -> HOT BOLD FOOD
H RAUNCHES
O NACREOUS
T CENTAURS,RECUSANT,UNCRATES
B UNBRACES
L LUCARNES
D DURANCES
F FURNACES
My bingos this tournament mostly weren't spectacular - BARRENLY stands out as one that scored a lot and got challenged. A semi accomplishment in the last round was that I didn't challenge AEIMNOSW even though it scored 92 and put me 126 behind, but then it took me too long to decide on it.
More later - must find way to get some money - forgot to have a profession!