Albany Round 18

[ididjonassalk]

vs cuzzakenji

Play it

Jason

Comments

i don't understand

[cesarsalad]

what is wrong with AWOL? i think that you need to fork the board. LO is much easier to block and score off of without giving you a spot in return.

[jmallick]

ABSENT without leave is impossible unless it's an out play.

[hector31]

I thought AWOL was a perfectly reasonable play too, but I think LO is best in part because it keeps more of the rack together (while offering the same score). Even with the tile pool being extremely favorable, you'd rather draw into -ANORS versus -NORS if you can, all else equal (and it's probably worth the absence of the Row 1 line that AWOL creates). There's certainly no guarantee to have a spot for your bingo (if you hit it), but there's a solid chance it will go down.

Another interesting thing about LO is that it's not that easy to hammer you on the comeback. Marlon could have a really good play there, but it's unlikely he does. And he might feel obligated to go there for a modest score simply to take away your best line.

[cuzzakenji]

it is a SINGLE tile that goes atop the A of AWOL that is the very REASON AWOL is a TERRIBLE play--AGAIN, REGARDLESS of da leave (and THAT is PREDICATED on the CIRCUMCSTANCES

[wantonhalo]

"The LARGER part of the problem with listening to a duck is that people don't QUACK..."

I like this quote a lot! I do think people have the potential to interpret what Quackle says alright, though most don't or do it poorly, and you can develop plenty of good skills without trying to quack (why try to waddle when you could learn to run?)

[wallydraigle]

Once you admit a mentor, you are stuck with the mentor's faults, and it is EXTREMELY difficult to unlearn them. In the case of a computer, computers don't think. Therefore, if you're trying to learn from something that doesn't think, then...