UVSC Session Report
Sunday, May 5, 2019 (Session #226)
(authored by BJ)

This week our club met at the Norwich Public Library on Sunday night.
It was our first time at that venue and our first time in 226 sessions
that we didn't meet on a Monday.  We will, however, be back to our
normal venue and day next time, as the changes were only due to a
temporary unavailability.  Nonetheless, the NPL Community Room is a very
nice venue and a great backup location to have.

Don was able to join Margaret, Ellen, Iliana and I, and he and Margaret
had the top showings.  Margaret was 2-0 for the second consecutive week,
and Don was 5-1, losing only his final game while playing two
simultaneously.  In one interesting ending against Don, I played the
bingo KLEPTOS to take a 50-ish point lead, drawing the last seven tiles
out of the bag including the second blank.  Don responded with MOATLIKE
through my K for the out-bingo and the win.  It was one of those rare
situations where a non-bingo was the better play; I could have played
just KLEPTO for 54 points and left one tile in the bag.  Don still could
have bingoed (with METALISE), but his lead would have been small and I
likely could have scored well enough to win with my new tiles.  Oh,
hindsight!

As for individual plays, I managed the high non-bingo of 72 points for
the interesting word ZOBUS#; a ZOBU# is hybrid between a yak and a
domestic cow, and has numerous other similar alternate names (all either
Collins-only or in neither lexicon), the most common of which appears to
be ZO# (according to the Google Books Ngram Viewer).  The high bingo was
Don's aforementioned MASTLIKE for 95.  The rest of the bingo pile
included INSANIE# (an old word for insanity), PRICIER, FELTING, BLASTIE
(a Scottish term for a wretched or ugly little creature), NEAREST,
GLARIER (more GLARY, full of glare), TENSILE, SCARTED (to SCART is to
scratch or scrape), OLEINES (OLEINE is the liquid portion of a fat),
REGALES, FOCUSED, PARENTED, ANTIRIOT, LAITIES, REPROBES, LIGNEOUS
(resembling wood), MANGLED, INCITERS, COURTERS, TREMBLE, DISEASE,
TEASING, SHARING, IRONERS, INBREEDS, and SERIATE.

Shown below are the gang at the Norwich Public Library, the
KLEPTOS/MASTLIKE game (TWL) between Don and BJ, and a
ZOBU#/ZOBO#/ZO#/ZHO#/DZO#/DZHO#/DSO#/YAKOW#.