Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Mission Accomplished

On June 13, 2014, elzurdo opened up the two Triple Word Squares, and tiger2002 exclaimed in excitement as the letter he needs fit the word for a nine timer! This was the board position and my current rack was EEQRSTU:
(elzurdo played JILTS)
Sure enough, tiger2002 laid down the bingo and broke his own best word score record in Wordsmith, for 202 points in single turn.

(tiger2002 played REQUESTS for 202 points!)
(tiger2002's Stats after the play)
In the same game, tiger2002 was in quest to know whether or not the word LBW is valid in YAWL as inspired by his previous post, and his plan was focused on finding a spot to play that word. Because of the safe lead, there was an opportunity to do this thing, neglecting any best plays and just relaxing a bit. This was the board position:

(elzurdo played MEET)
In this board position, tiger2002 was thinking on how he could play LBW instead of scoring. See what did he play...

(tiger2002 played MILL)
MILL sets up two possible spots for LBW, hoping that elzurdo will not block it, LOL!!! If blocked, then there was still a blank to work for it. Now, watch out the play of elzurdo...

(elzurdo played TRY)
The moment of truth was about to explode! And tiger2002 played it, wait and behold! Was it valid or not?

(tiger2002 played LBW)
And so mission accomplished, LBW is confirmed valid! And why tiger2002 didn't chose the other spot for LBW with better score? He wanted to make use of the ETA hook for scoring opportunity in succeeding turn, if not blocked. Wow, tiger2002 got the other blank!

Hoping that Wordsmith will not remove this word, so that it can be used to balance the tiles in case of heavy consonants rack.

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