Today, I played a club tournament. I won and got a new peak rating! Here are the games, two of which have Nigel's racks added:

Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Game 6

Don't know why the links aren't formatting. I always format them like this, and even double-checked the FAQ. DId I typo or something?

Just posted games from today's one-day tournament at Round Table Pizza. IDs are 12713-12718. Kibitz, discuss, you know the drill.

“It was stolen,” I said, as if talking about any everyday topic.

“What?” she replied in horror, “why didn’t you tell us, we could’ve gotten insurance?!”

“Because it didn’t really matter to me.”

“Why did we spend money to get this bike?”

My bike was stolen in the middle of June. I had foolishly parked it in Berkeley for a few days, and this was a ( Read more... )

captaino recently posted a fun State Abbreviations Puzzle. Conrad and I had fun solving it together, and I thought a similar puzzle would be cool to try. First, go try Nick's puzzle if you haven't already, and then try this, which is just the same puzzle with backwards state abbreviations (e.g. OR becomes RO). Forgetting about the 34 total twos and threes ( Read more... )

Which of these take SFUL on the back ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I realized it would be really cool to try to play blind Scrabble, where you only get to hear your opponent's plays on each turn and your racks. So I just tried it against Kenji, thinking I was going to make about four plays and not see the board, but it was a lot easier than I thought. I'd encourage you to try it! It sounds ( Read more... )

This morning, I got into an argument with my mom about coasters. I was asked to put a coaster below my bottle as I used it. While I saw the utility of this, I wanted to make a larger point by not immediately grabbing the coaster. I explained that it is not too important to use a coaster, so you (Mom) shouldn't worry about it too much. This of ( Read more... )

Here I have posted the play from VIP which I am most baffled about:

VIP game vs KenjiI haven't pointed out any specific plays both because I don't want to prime anyone too much and because I haven't an idea what could be right here. If you come up with a good analysis of the play and post it, please add along with it your methods for generating ( Read more... )

Rejoice in the Lord alway! and again I say, rejoice in the Lord alway! and again I say, rejoice!

I just played a bunch of blitz games against Zamez, and got down dE(AMIN)ATING!