UVSC Session Report October 23, 2017 (Session #153) (authored by BJ) Iliana, Ellen and I really packed in the games this week, with Ellen playing two more than she ever has before in one session (7). Iliana played 6, and I 9, and we even stopped two hours short of our typical late-night end time! :) I also used my newly decorated rack today, which was colored by Adelie after I told her how I've had two of my racks get mistakenly (I presume) taken by others. No longer will anyone accidentally grab my tile rack! (See photo.) Some interesting questions came up based on challenges and/or phonies. For example, what (TWL) adjective means "capable of flying" and starts with a V? I got away with a phony similar to that one. What -CAST words have acceptable past tenses ending in -CASTED? (What about CAST itself?) What are the acceptable plurals of GRINGO? How about ERINGO? Are there any multi-letter front extensions to WIVING? Does MILLING take an S? Think about it while I list some of our bingos: FLEETEST, EDACITY, GORDITAS, DIRNDLS, TONELESS, COROLLA, SIERRAN, STEARIC, FALSIES, REPRIEVE, BINDLES, LINTERS, ALUNITE, SPEEDED, PREFACED, HOLISTIC, LOITERER, DOGTAILS, LYSINES. Answers: (scroll down) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. VOLANT 2. in TWL: OUTCASTED, PODCASTED, VODCASTED (think "video podcast"), WEBCASTED, FORECASTED, OVERCASTED, TELECASTED, BROADCASTED, CABLECASTED, COLORCASTED, SIMULCASTED, and REBROADCASTED; CSW additionally has: CASTED#, UNCASTED#, MOBCASTED#, HINDCASTED#, ROUGHCASTED#, COLOURCASTED#, and NARROWCASTED# (think "distributing digital material using pre-Internet technology"). 3. only GRINGOS is valid 4. ERINGOS and ERINGOES are both valid (similarly for ERYNGO) 5. MIDWIVING (Iliana came close to playing it!) and in CSW, also UNWIVING# 6. yes, MILLINGS is valid ("the corrugated edge on a coin") BJ's new unmistakable multi-color rack: