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National Scrabble Association Club #565
Club Results—2006– 2007 Season

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Session Results - 15 March 2007

# Name Win-Loss Spread Bingos per Game Points per Game Club Rating
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1 Ed Saunders 4-1 +524 2.6000 459.6000 1422 | (-7)
2 Judy Carlock 2-3 -255 1.2000 359.8000 1118 | (+13)
3 Karen Lundeen 1-3 -239 0.7500 364.2500 1106 | (-6)

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Session Notes - 15 March 2007 Session

This session marked the nineteenth of NSA Club #565's 2006-2007 season!

We'd like to take this opportunity to send our support and well-wishes to Judith Whitcomb, who will be having hip replacement surgery this week. We wish her a successful surgery, a quick, painless, and complete recovery, and a speedy return to the scrabble wars. We'll miss her while she's away.

We were happy to welcome Judy Carlock back to the club after a three-month hiatus. We were also happy to meet the reason for that hiatus. Her name is Abigail and she's a sweet, friendly, and energetic little dachshund puppy. To paraphrase a famous old song, "How you gonna keep 'em down at the club, after they've seen pu-ppies?"

Old scrabble pal Rex Kremer and his young son Remington also dropped by the club for a short visit. Unfortunately for us, Rex's one night out a week is spent with his bowling league (he recently put together a strong 259-212-238 - 709 series) rather than with us, but we may get him back for a few weeks during the summer months. Rex would like to say "Hi" to everybody but especially to the Whitcomb's who he won't get to see during the summer.

We were joined by 3 players who played 7 games in which we scored 5,554 points for a 793.4286 (396.7143 ind) point-per-game average. Of the 22 recorded bingos we played, only one was a phony that went unchallenged.

Some numbers and whatnot for this session include:

Some interesting bingos:

This was the eleventh week of the "Special Letter Bingo Contest" with "J" being the "Special Letter" for the week. Click here for rules and current standings No points were scored this week and Ed Saunders maintains his four point lead.

We featured two contests this week.

The first contest was The Wild Coast of Maine Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that pertains to coastal waters, industries, cuisine, recreation, or the like. Ed Saunders submitted the only entry for this contest. "The rocky coastline greeted the onrushing surf like a giant ATOMISER, separating each crashing wave into a cool, refreshing mist of salt sea spray." (61 points). Ed heads out to sea with $1.75 in his pockets.

The second regular contest was the HMM? Does that "ING" Take an "S"? Contest for the highest scoring play of a word that can end in either "ING" or "INGS". Judy Carlock came up with tastings*, but, since the contest calls for a word that can legitimately end in either "ING" or "INGS", the entry was not valid and this contest will run again next week with $1.75 in WINNING/S awaiting a valid entry.

No one cashed in on any of the Progressive Jackpots this week and each shall have $0.56 added to it. As of this session we have paid out $239.88 in prizes this season. Click here for a complete list of prizes awarded during the 2006-2007 season.

The next session (22 March) shall feature the following contests:
•Special Letter Bingo Contest - Week twelve - This week's "Special Letter" is "P". Any Bingo beginning with the letter "P" will earn one point. In addition, one point will be awarded for each additional occurrence of the "Special Letter" within the word. Click here for rules and current standings
• HMM? Does That "ING" Take an "S"? Contest - $1.75 shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring play of a word that can end in either "ING" or "INGS" (e.g. BIRDING/S, SKIING/S, ERLKING/S, COVING/S, etc.) Either form will qualify.
• Take Me For a Ride in Your Car Contest - On March 22, 1961, Raymond Loewy made a sketch of a futuristic sports car at the request of Sherwood Egbert, the recently appointed president of the ailing Studebaker Corporation. The "Avanti" was rushed into production in the spring of 1962. In honor of this event, a quarter of dues collected (less 50 cents) shall be awarded to the highest scoring play of a word pertaining to cars or activities involving cars (e.g. RAMBLER, WOODIES, DRAGSTER, BEETLES, HORNETS, ROADKILL, FALCONS, MICROBUS, CRUISING, FLIVVER, HOTRODS, LANDAUS, ROADSTER, BACKSEAT, SHOTGUN, IMPALAS, MUSTANG, CORVETTE, RAGTOPS, etc.) To qualify for this contest, you need to write a sentence connecting your word to cars in some manner. Make the connection and you might win enough money for about half a tank of gas (at 1961 prices).
•"BE" The Verb Contest -A quarter of dues collected (less 50 cents) shall be awarded to the player who turns in the highest scoring play of a verb utilizing the prefix "BE" as a prefix (e.g. BEDAUBS, BELADIES, BESMIRCH, BERIMES, BEDIZEN, etc.) A verb such as BETTERED, which is merely a word that starts with "BE", will "BE" disqualified.
•Triple-Triple Progressive Jackpot* - $5.61 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores a Triple-Triple play.
•100+ Play Progressive Jackpot* - $2.06 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores 100 or more points in a single play
•Club 565 Progressive Jackpot - $3.74 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who scores 565 or more points in a single game.
•9+ Bingo Progressive Jackpot* - $4.49 plus a sixteenth of the session's dues will be awarded to any player who plays a bingo of 9 or more letters in length.
* = Jackpot prizes cannot be combined.

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Bingos

The following is a list of bingos played by player at NSA Club #565 on 15 March 2007.
Phony bingos are listed in red, lowercase.

Judy Carlock (6 bingos)
GRANITE (GRATINE, INGRATE, TANGIER, TEARING)
MOTORIST
OUTRACED (AERODUCT, EDUCATOR)
ROUNDISH
STANDER
tastings

Karen Lundeen (3 bingos)
CONSENT
SEALING (LEASING, LINAGES)
STUDENTS

Ed Saunders   (13 bingos)
ATOMISER (AMORTISE)
BISTORT
BONNIEST
BOUDOIR
DECORATE (RECOATED)
DENTALS (SLANTED)
ESCAPED
GLARIER
GOVERNS
LISTERS (RELISTS)
PERUSAL (PLEURAS)
REASONED
URALITE

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Combined Results for the November 2006 - November 2007 Season (as of March 15, 2007)

  • Click here for Season-to-Date Club Rankings

    • Name
    (click for details)    		 Club
    Rating    		 Games
    Played     		Won Lost Win
    %     		Bingos
    Played     		Bingo
    Avg     		Phony
    Bingos
    Played     		Phony
    Bingo
    %
    Byrne, Dan 621 11 2 9 .182 8 0.727 0 -
    Canterman, Naurlene 1342 45 25 20 .556 42 0.933 1 2.381
    Carlock, Judy 1118 15 5 10 .333 16 1.067 1 6.250
    Haag, Bernadine 467 4 0 4 .000 1 0.250 0 -
    Herbert, Grace 538 6 2 4 .333 0 0.000 0 -
    Jacobson, Allen 1160 4 3 1 .750 5 1.250 0 -
    Jones, Carol 898 6 2 4 .333 2 0.333 0 -
    Kassel, Joshua 1208 56 21 35 .375 72 1.286 8 11.111
    Knickerbocker, Yvonne 1488 4 4 0 1.00 6 1.500 0 -
    Kornell, Monique 1351 35 19 16 .543 31 0.886 2 6.452
    Lewis, Kevin 500 5 0 5 .000 1 0.200 0 -
    Lundeen, Karen 1106 31 10 21 .323 23 0.742 0 -
    Mancel, Nancee 1341 7 3 4 .429 8 1.143 1 12.50
    Masel, Sandra 1143 15 5 10 .333 13 0.867 0 -
    Mitchel, Loren 1764 6 2 4 .333 10 1.667 1 10.00
    Saul, Lewis 1407 75 50 25 .667 105 1.400 7 6.667
    Saunders, Ed 1422 106 72 34 .679 207 1.953 7 3.382
    Sommer, Jason 1346 4 1 3 .250 5 1.250 0 -
    Whitcomb, Judith 1254 43 19 24 .442 44 1.023 0 -
    Whitcomb, Robert 1260 50 19 31 .380 76 1.520 5 6.579
    Club # 565 (20 Players) 1137 528 264 264 .500 675 1.278 33 4.889

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    Season Schedule and Past Session Results

    NSA Club #565 meets each Thursday. The 2006-2007 schedule is below. Click on past dates for completed session results.

    11/02/06 | 11/09/06 | 11/16/06 | (Thanksgiving) | 11/30/06 | 12/07/06 | 12/14/06 | 12/21/06 | 12/28/06 | 01/04/07 | 01/11/07 | 01/18/07 | 01/25/07 | 02/01/07 |02/08/07 | 02/15/07 | 02/22/07 | 03/01/07 | 03/08/07 | 03/15/07 | 03/22/07 | 03/29/07 | 04/05/07 | 04/12/07 | 04/19/07 | 04/26/07 | 05/03/07 | 05/10/07 | 05/17/07 | 05/24/07 | 05/31/07 | 06/07/07 | 06/14/07 | 06/21/07 | 06/28/07 | 07/05/07 | 07/12/07 | 07/19/07 | 07/26/07 | 08/02/07 | 08/09/07 | 08/16/07 | 08/23/07 | 08/30/07 | 09/06/07 | 09/13/07 | 09/20/07 | 09/27/07 | 10/04/07 | 10/11/07 | 10/18/07 | 10/25/07

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    The 500 and 600 Clubs and Triple-Triple Plays

    Name 500 and 600 point games Triple-Triple Plays
    Carol Jones 518 PORTAGES for 140
    Josh Kassel   SCRIBING for 158
    Loren Mitchel 518  
    Lewis Saul 559, 527, 519, 500  
    Ed Saunders 578, 564, 532, 530, 511, 506  
    Bob Whitcomb   CARRIERS for 149
    LANTERNS for 131

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