So one of my clubmates thinks it should be a greeting and greets me with "Ayurveda" every time I arrive and leave the club.  One time I was browsing a Travel + Leisure mag and what do I find?  An ad enticing readers to experience ayurveda in the Himalayas and Ganges.  He wasn't there this week though when I brought the mag.  I showed it to a lot of ( Read more... )

Is that not only it lets you see more of them during a game (like INTERIOR, DETAINER, and CHITOSAN), it also let you play phoney 8s confidently.  I'm not sure if the latter is really a good thing for Mike could have challenged tellered* off.  He didn't but he still won.  I played INTERIOR  against Zana during the first game.  It was close until my ( Read more... )

I was happy to be back after skipping the last 2 sessions for family commitments.  Lost my first two games but won my last couple.  Messed up with a four again (played waud*, must be thinking of WAUK and YAUD).  Lost the second game against Mike Thelen partly because of challenging BOVIDS thinking BOVID was an adjective.  Won a few bucks by making ( Read more... )

And I'm happy to report that I went away with 2 wins.  Lost to who else, but Mike "Mr. Invincible" Thelen.
Won against the big dog (Kent) and the big cat (Mike H.).  Confidently challenged off 2 phoney 8s (idolated* and canidity*), but didn't see the 2 7s in ?ACDINT so allowed Mike T. to catch up.  Oh yeah, I also played one: gennets*.  That really ( Read more... )

Maybe because I started with a win against Mike Thelen.  Maybe because I got the bingo-bango-bongo prize of $16.  Might be the close win on my second game, where I and my opponent both scored over 400.  Those positive points overcame the ugly 3rd game where I had racks like ISATINE and NAILERS but the board was tighter than an L.A. freeway.  I also ( Read more... )

At the beginning of the year, I set a lofty goal to study all the eights.  I started doing it by probability order but then, for some reason, I decided to switch and do it alphabetically.  Not alphagrams ordered alphabetically but studying the eights starting with the ones that begins with the letter A, then moving on to the Bs, then the Cs and so ( Read more... )

Those are the words I missed that might have won me the games I lost at club this week. The first one I saw right away to the T (during my first game) but wasn't sure it was good so I just played WAB for 16. It would have been 101 points if I didn't chicken out on it!  WASPILY was for my second play on my third game but again did not chance it and ( Read more... )

GAME 1 vs Wil Dabbs.  My AECIDIA (68) and AEROLOGY (76) were countered by his ONERIEST (68) and KINEMAS (80).  In the endgame he was leading by 9 points and I'm holding BDIIORS and his is EEHIRT?.  The bag is empty.  We both missed our best endgame but he came out ahead by 13.  The words I missed were (A)BOI(L) and DIR(L)S.  Tells you how much I ( Read more... )

Hello fellow Scrabblers.  Hope everything's going fine for you.  New month, so new style for my journal.  I won most of my games last night but I made mistakes a 1400 shouldn't make.  First game was against Mike Thelen.  Did a bingo-bango on him with the help of both blanks.  He answered with ANERGIES but it gave me JEON for 57.  Finally broken the ( Read more... )

The throng is back. Last week we "only" had 12 players, but this week its back to the usual 20 (I think, not sure of the actual number).  Won my first game against a newcomer, lost my second against a guy who is starting to study (bingoed out on me with LOVINGLY), lost my 3rd to Mr. Invincible (Mike Thelen who went 6-0, again), and thankfully won ( Read more... )