Last night was my weekly Scrabble club at our local library.
I played 3 games with the best player in the club - best in the sense that he is an excellent anagrammer.
I beat him handily the first game - he was getting lousy tiles apparently and I was getting great tiles, had two bingoes.
So I was feeling pretty good...then in Game Two the wheels fell off. I got all vowels to start with and kept getting them for the rest of the game.
Then came Game Three...and the same thing happened. I'd spell a three letter word to get rid of some vowels, and draw - invariably - two vowels and a consonant. And the vowels were not good ones - Is and Us rather than As and Es. In fact on one turn I drew two Us and two Is.
Late in the game I managed to get a bingo that got me even, but had to place it in such a way that it opened up a triple, which enabled my opponent to get 30 points. Meantime, as is usual after I have a bingo, I drew all vowels again and was thrust right back into that rut.
Very frustrating.
I don't think this guy is any better than I am, frankly. It's just that 3 games out of 4 he is able to draw better tiles.
