Joel Wapnick is a stronger man than I

[key_lime_guy]

How the heck did he resist the temptation to fish off a B and grab for that last A here?

www.scrabble-assoc.com/games/cnsc2011/f2/022.html

Comments

[anendlessnight]

I wondered the same thing...especially when he drew the A.

[meezerman]

Wow, my dream word too! With the score as it was, I would've been fishing until the end of the game for that.

[spherulitic]

Apparently there was a loud collective groan in the audience when he made the play he did.

[sr_orangepants]

I didn't realize it until I looked a second time. Maybe he was looking at that rack thinking, how do I negotiate this rack, rather than I'm one tile off of a bingo.

[sr_orangepants]

He actually did consider it, but passed it up because he "didn't need the points."

[dugy1001]

Is there a working link? The game seems to have been removed from the site, or at least I can't find it.

[key_lime_guy]

Well, darn, it's gone. I knew I should've done the screen capture thing instead.

Anyways....Joel was up about 200 late in the game and was holding ?BBGMNQ, open A on the board that was unlikely to be blocked, one A left with about 4 or 5 in the bag.

[key_lime_guy]

Oh, and he then played off both Bs, drawing AO.