UVSC Session Report
January 8, 2018 (Session #163)
(authored by BJ)

This week Ellen, Margaret, Iliana and I played 10 total games. Iliana
came out of it with the top record at 4-2, besting each of the rest of
us at least once. In the process she had a 5-bingo game and a bunch of
fun and high-scoring non-bingos, such as ZOAEAE# for 50, GECKO for 51,
and JINS for 84! Amongst the group there were several bingos, as always,
including these: CAVITIES, DOYLIES, URINATOR (an old-fashioned word for
a diver, in addition to a more obvious modern meaning), TRENDIES,
TONSURE, UNTILED#, INTROIT, PLATERS, SLANDERS, AGONISES, REENACTS,
OUTGAIN, FORELEGS, ATTORNED, VASTIER, ADVICES, COWRIES, WAISTED,
BREECHED, RUNELIKE, CRAZING, and DIRENESS.

Below are images of a cowrie (a sea snail, also spelled cowry) and a
bunch of cowrie shells, as well as the board from Iliana's five-bingo
game (TWL).