Rafal vs Wojtek

11:1 for Rafal after a 9-hour long 12 game marathon!
Revenge on Tuesday...

Clash of the titans

4 months after my first visit to Rafal in Warsaw we played at his place again. Last time I won 10:6.
This time Rafal got his revenge. Having won the C Division at the UK Open earlier this year Rafal was on fire and beat me by 8 games to 6.
After 14 games Rafal scored 5516 points (average: 394 pts per game). I scored only 4 points less - 5512 - and that made my defeat sweeter.
My highlight play came in game 5. Facing DEEIIS? on the rack and a pretty blocked board I went for my first 10-letter bingo ever: DEbI(LIT)IES for 62 points. Beware, Nigel, I'm coming ;)

I also played 3 games with Wojtek who joined us in the evening. I won 2 of them. In the first game Wojtek exposed his great skill once again by playing FLAILED directly under 5 letters of my bingo PTERINS:
_ _ P T E R I N S
F L A I  L E D

My bingos from all 17 games:
LOONIEs, BEFlEA(E)D, T(A)NGELOS, IN(S)ERTER, sEEDERs, PTERINS, SHEITAN, pOINTER, MINSTER, SPURNED, AERIEST, DEbI(LIT)IES, NOT(E)LETS, SLAYINg, REGUL(A)TE, SWOLLEN, R(E)LiVING, EnGORES, S(A)LARIES, REt(I)MING, WIDENE(R)S, (W)ROOTING, BLOATEr, TERRITS, ArSENAt(E), DIETIST(S), HOVeRED, NUTRIAS, NAMASTE  

1,70 bingos per game - just about my average.

And here are some nice bingos I missed / didn't know:

CLEMENT, FATBIRD, MURRINE, OFLACTS, TRIPART, WAIFING, MUSHIER (HEURISM), KLUDGEY


Altogether I'm happy with my performance. It's also great to see Rafal's game improve all the time. This means I have to up my level to stay in contention :)

Rosemary's Bingo (1)

Scrabble is featured in Roman Polanski's 1968 movie "Rosemary's baby". The movie was based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin.
Scrabble board can be seen in a scene where Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse are playing the game on the floor of their new appartment in New York.
What strikes me is:
1. the invalid word ALY
2. no bingos
3. KAZOO as the first word on the board :)

MEdia... again

Today I was woken up by my mother who informed me that there's an article on me in a local Poznan weekly newspaper "Poznaniak".Cool :)

Scrabble and the media

Here is an article about Mihai Pantis (in Romanian):
http://think.hotnews.ro/pantis-paceaura-pacfong-pachesca.html

Our Rafal didn't even get a mention on the Polish Scrabble Federation site (http://www.pfs.org.pl/) after winning Division C at the UK Open...