Back to Brantford ON, 1996-11-02

John Chew's commentary on Brantford

"There ought to be a rule": I heard a player in the second division start to ring during a game, and was surprised to see him excuse himself from the table to answer a business call on his cellphone#. What next? Colluding players phoning each other to reveal opponent's racks? :-)

"SCRABBLE, XEROX$...": A well-known expert player of phonies managed to hook an -A on FORMIC, and then challenged his opponent's subsequent -S hook. I remarked that the only hook for FORMICA[2] is a little R in a circle.

"5-to-make-8s": With four Ls unseen early in a game against Mike Wise, I kept EGK and sacrificed a few points of Maven equity to fish ELK-HOUNDS 8a for 51 points.

"My bingos": EVEN-T-UAl EU-L-OgIES TARIFFS V-A-PORISE (h7, sigh...) A-D-JURORs WESTERN-S OrEIDES CAGIESt

"Opp bingos": TEMPORa-L REGENTS GRAINIER lIGULeS DEv-O-TING SALINATE* (sigh) LITHo-I-NG$ LURChED

"My double-doubles": RIPI-E-NO EN-TI-TLE WHE-R-EAT