This game was played at the Thursday Ft. Lauderdale, FL Scrabble® Club on 11-Dec-03. This game includes Mike's highest (at that time) single-turn score of 194 points. He has subsequently made higher single-turn scores. It also is probably Mike's second-highest losing score next to a game he played only 17 days earlier when he scored 479 as a loser! See Mike's 1005-total-points game.
Although the game with the 479 loss was marred by the inclusion of a phony bingo Mike accepted, this game has no phonies remaining on the board.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o ----------------------------- 1|= ' = ' S| 2| - " " V A W| 3|O - ' W ' H A E| 4|U B O O T Y E N R| 5|T - P I N B A L L S V| 6|D " A I D E D U M H I| 7|O P ' C ' N E ' A N| 8|E R U' R O A S T E D G| 9|S I ' N Z ' I ' | 10| C F O G Y E M " | 11| K I E F O | 12|' L ' R - '| 13| Q A T ' J E E R E R s| 14| A " G O X - | 15|I T A L I c = ' =| ----------------------------- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Todd Dvoretz Mike Wolfberg ---------------------- ----------------------- ROASTED 8f 70 70 HELMED L3 24 24 VAN m2 24 94 COZ g7 27 51 FOGY 10d 33 127 UNFELT d8 20 71 PINBALLS 5f 81 208 BOOT 4d 18 89 AIDE 6c 14 222 WYND h3 29 118 AUNTIE j5 10 232 KIEF 11b 32 150 MOR k10 14 246 PRICK b7 19 169 QAT 13b 24 270 VAW 2m 18 187 JEERERs 13i 98 368 SWERVING o1 194 381 GOX 14h 61 429 trade 4 0 381 HA n6 28 457 OUTDOES a3 89 470 QAT b13 24 481 UNTIRE n9 0 470 (challenged off) ITALIc 15a 18 499 (UNITE) 10 509 FINAL SCORE 509 470
Instead of playing a phony which Mike should know had no chance, since he knows UNITERS,TRIUNES, (and NUTSIER), but not UNTIRES, had he played 14-point NU at a14 to block Todd's only going-out play, he would have won the game by one point. Todd has several possible 12-point plays at n10, such as LAIRs, or he can play bASIL for 12 points at o11. He also can play sAL at e13 for 14, and Mike can go out with TIE for 10 points at i1. Mike would win with either 494-493 or 496-495, but then it would not have been a high loss for Mike!
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