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     LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR FEBRUARY 2, 2012

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------
     1 Evans Clinchy         - 1777      37    15        437
     2 Mark Fidler           + 1764      44    15        398
     3 Steven Saul           + 1762      47    18        420
     4 John Cheras             1747       3     0        442
     5 Joel Horn             - 1737      90    37        413
     6 Merrill Kaitz         = 1735      28    10        418
     7 Richard Buck          + 1734      33    25        405
     8 Jake Bergmann         - 1730      32    16        409
     9 Mike Wolfberg         - 1728      34    20        414
    10 Ben Harrison          - 1721      81    37        428

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE   RANK
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------   ----
    Amphlett, Nick             1691       7     3        379      16
    Aronie, Emmanuel           1598/9     2     7        354 
    Azrin, Linda             = 1624       6     7        382      25
    Becker, Bob                1706/A    28    26        405 
    Cassel, Claudia          + 1621      32    66        345      26
    Choslovsky, Marla          1575/A     1     3        341 
    Cole, Judy                 1686      13    13        389      17
    Day, Catherine             1584/A     7    23        330 
    Day, Jesse                 1818/A    10     0        467 
    Durdan, Carl               1717       7     5        405      11
    Finn, Marshall             1630       5     5        373      24
    Ghosh, Souparno          - 1669      14    13        387      19
    Giovinazzo, Linda          1636      21    32        367      23
    Goldstein, Marc          + 1546       6    36        322      30
    Gonzales, Steven         - 1475       8    50        309      32
    Greenberg, Morris          1694/A     5     1        435 
    Hass, Trevor               1479       0     4        324      31
    Horn, Judy               - 1706      81    55        406      13
    Katz, Larry              - 1699      38    45        382      15
    Kraus, Marvin            + 1589      18    64        346      29
    Kt., Trx.                + 1618      21    54        345      27
    Kulig, Chris               1682      49    57        377      18
    Lambert, Rebecca           1692/A    12    14        393 
    Leifer, Dave               1916/5     5     0        420 
    Leifer, Scott              1741/A     3     2        360 
    Lipkin, Seth               1760/A     3     2        421 
    Lutts, Tim                 1639      12     9        384      22
    Marshall, Norma            1552/A     6    34        332 
    McDonald, Carol            1668/A    19    10        384 
    McMahon, Megan             1545/A     3    10        326 
    Revkin, Barbara            1700      12    12        390      14
    Rosenthal, Rob             1693/A     3     0        473 
    Sinacola, Chris            1713       5     3        408      12
    Spiller, Diana             1644       9    15        376      20
    Vijayakumar, Sinna         1732/A    22    13        411 
    Wood, Betsey             + 1642      14    25        364      21
    Yorra, Wayne             + 1592      11    35        353      28

Players in the top ten are listed only at the top of this sheet,
since there is not enough room to also include them in the full list.

                        (over for the news)

There were 20 players in attendance when we last met on January 26, 2012.

Congratulations to Claudia for having the high-above-average game last
week, in which she scored 482, 40.6% above her average, against one of the
top ten players in the club.

High scores: Ben H. 558, Richard B. 554, Steven S. 539,
             Mike W. 520, Evans 516

High losing scores: Claudia 480 to Ben H. 558, Wayne 433 to Judy H. 445,
                    Souparno 402 to Mike W. 423

High rating increase: Steven S. +16

These are the words challenged or considered last week:

LAH, EWED, FITZ, IRED, BOTAS, GENIE, GOOKS, HALFS, JEERR, OGAMY, USNEA,
WHIPE, WIDES, WILLY, WISED, ASHILY, DEHAIR, DEKNIT, JADING, REFLED, TOBIES,
BESSIES, BOODLER, CORNISH, DIURENE, ELAPIDS, ENROADS, ETAMINE, INTREAT,
MUNSTER, NEGATER, OUTSEEN, PROTEAS, RESLICE, SILENUS, SUBDUER, UNEARTH,
BESTRODE, DIURNALS, REFLYING
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(WEED), IRED (DIRE RIDE), BOTAS (BOAST BOATS SABOT), GENIE, GOOKS,
(FLASH), USNEA, WIDES (WISED), WILLY, WISED (WIDES), (HAIRED), JADING,
TOBIES (BOITES SOBEIT), BOODLER, (CRONISH+), ELAPIDS (ALIPEDS LAPIDES
PALSIED PLEIADS), ETAMINE (MATINEE), INTREAT (ITERANT NATTIER NITRATE
TERTIAN), MUNSTER (STERNUM), NEGATER (GRANTEE GREATEN REAGENT), OUTSEEN,
PROTEAS (ESPARTO SEAPORT), (CEILERS), SILENUS, SUBDUER, UNEARTH (HAUNTER
URETHAN), BESTRODE, DIURNALS, REFLYING

Last week, Judy H. made a 10-letter ReTAILORED by extending RED.
This great bingo scored only 62 points. The longest word ever played
in this club had 11 letters. There have been 10- and 11-letter words
played several times. See the club stats page on the web.

A small error in last week's report on the Brattleboro tourney: The only
8-player division was C (not B). The other divisions each had 6 players.

At the recent 19-game tourney in Atlantic City, NJ:
 In 20-player Div. 1: Brad W. was 2nd, 2 games behind winner Jan Cardia
 In 22-player Div. 2: Judy C. was 9th
 In 26-player Div. 3: Betsey was in the lower half 


FLOUR+SAC makes one 8-letter uncommon word and four somewhat uncommon
7-letter words.

An obscure word can be formed from NIL+CLUE;
your first guess is likely to be wrong.

Here are some more 7-letter groups with bingos:
SASS+PIE
PIXY+AID
I+WOLFED
POCONOS
MAD+DOGS


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