Close Game

I’m at the end of a very close email Scrabble game with Macboy “Lower Case L-er” Levin. It’s his turn. And there are only about 14 tiles left in the bag…

UPDATE: William plays ONENESS under AIDER for a BINGO and 74 points (see below). I come back with YIN on the right hand side of the board for 31 points and William replies with BOW on the left scoring 32 points. All looks lost.

I am holding AEIRSTV. Good letters. But there’s nowhere to go, there’s only one tile left in the bag and I really need a BINGO (using all seven letters and scoring an extra 50 points) if I want to win. I can see the six-letter word STRIVE in my rack, so I throw down the A under BO, making BOA and hoping that I pick up a good letter and that William does not close down the board. William playes RELAXED. I am trailing by 81 points

The letter I pick up is a T! I have got a BINGO! THRIVES. I play it under BOA making BOAT and THRIVES hoping that it will be enough. I score 71 points and an extra 3 points for the tiles on William’s rack (ORU). William has three deducted.

Final Score: William 410, Paul 406.

Well done William!

UPDATE:Noooooooo! I’ve just seen it. If I had played THRIVES making BOAR instead of BOAT, I would have won! Aaaaaargh…..