December episode available for purchase, link is above.
November episode is now on iTunes for free.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Almost awesome.
My brother, cousin and I have an inside joke we use when we play disc golf and a shot goes nearly perfect- we say "that was almost awesome". Of course, often in disc golf, the difference between an awesome shot and an almost awesome one is the presence of a large tree.
Picture this: one of us launches a flying disc into the air, it soars in a perfect arc, heading directly towards the target... until CLUNK it slams in a large branch and drops straight to the earth. One of us dryly states, "that was almost awesome." This reminds me a lot of scrabble.
How often do you have that near-perfect rack for a bingo, where you think to yourself 'if only that (insert letter here) was a (insert letter here), I'd be able to play (insert ultra-low probability word here)!' Now part of this, of course, is just the discipline of seeing possible plays, and is bound to happen.
Along these lines, I thought I would take a play from club last night where I would have had such a play if my rack was one letter different. Except in the magical world of annotated games, I decided to actually give myself the correct rack. See if you can find the play here.
And while your at it, feel free to add your own almost awesome tales.
Picture this: one of us launches a flying disc into the air, it soars in a perfect arc, heading directly towards the target... until CLUNK it slams in a large branch and drops straight to the earth. One of us dryly states, "that was almost awesome." This reminds me a lot of scrabble.
How often do you have that near-perfect rack for a bingo, where you think to yourself 'if only that (insert letter here) was a (insert letter here), I'd be able to play (insert ultra-low probability word here)!' Now part of this, of course, is just the discipline of seeing possible plays, and is bound to happen.
Along these lines, I thought I would take a play from club last night where I would have had such a play if my rack was one letter different. Except in the magical world of annotated games, I decided to actually give myself the correct rack. See if you can find the play here.
And while your at it, feel free to add your own almost awesome tales.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Double Blank Quiz
My opening rack is AEPPX??, and FIB is on the board.
Can you find the bingo? What if the opening play was FOB?
Can you find the bingo? What if the opening play was FOB?
Monday, November 29, 2010
Found word of the day: ACEONTV
Literally found this coin under my couch... it's not actually that random, though, my wife went on a service project trip to Guatemala last March...
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Things I learned at club this (last) week
1. THOU is a verb!!!
2. There are 4 bingos through a P if you have AENNOT?
3. AEEMNUS through an R has a cool bingo.
4. AENRSUY has an anagram.
5. IJOSUU? plays through a B!!!
I've discovered that if I miss these things (most of them I didn't know), I'm still doing a decent job of finding the best non-bingo play. So that's good, I guess.
I played a game against a new(er)comer and drew a challenge on URETHAN/TOPHE. Later I played ANGARAS* (looking now I know it's a phony, but in the moment I just confused it with ANGORAS) and he left it on. I felt bad afterward, but I was having a really high scoring game and didn't want to hold back on trying something just because I suspected he might not challenge. (He had also lost a turn for playing EE*) I suppose I could have told him he could have free challenges, but I wasn't sure what his skill level was when we started, and also, the last time I did that I ended up losing the game! Ah well, regardless of that, I was happy with my play, I scored over 400 in my other two games and bingoed 3 times (legitimately) in those.
2. There are 4 bingos through a P if you have AENNOT?
3. AEEMNUS through an R has a cool bingo.
4. AENRSUY has an anagram.
5. IJOSUU? plays through a B!!!
I've discovered that if I miss these things (most of them I didn't know), I'm still doing a decent job of finding the best non-bingo play. So that's good, I guess.
I played a game against a new(er)comer and drew a challenge on URETHAN/TOPHE. Later I played ANGARAS* (looking now I know it's a phony, but in the moment I just confused it with ANGORAS) and he left it on. I felt bad afterward, but I was having a really high scoring game and didn't want to hold back on trying something just because I suspected he might not challenge. (He had also lost a turn for playing EE*) I suppose I could have told him he could have free challenges, but I wasn't sure what his skill level was when we started, and also, the last time I did that I ended up losing the game! Ah well, regardless of that, I was happy with my play, I scored over 400 in my other two games and bingoed 3 times (legitimately) in those.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Link of the day
Just added this to the 'helpful links' section:
'Polyorths' are words that have more than one spelling. Check this list out if you've ever said 'wait, I didn't know you could spell it THAT way, too!?'
'Polyorths' are words that have more than one spelling. Check this list out if you've ever said 'wait, I didn't know you could spell it THAT way, too!?'
Friday, November 26, 2010
Found word of the day EILLMNU
courtesy once again of audubon magazine's nature calendar...
MULLEIN a eurasian herb
bonus quiz: MILLEIN + D,I,or O
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