Jeanne got tired of losing

Instead of watching our two movie rentals, Mulholland Drive and The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (both of which are over 2.5 hours long), we decided to give Scrabble another ago. I had a renewed sense of ambition to win, though I feared what tricks Robby might pull out of his hat this time.

My first slew of letters contained no vowels, so I had to let Robby go first ("oar"). I started out my first 5 turns with only one & a half vowels (A & Y), & although Robby suggested that I give up some letters & risk losing a turn in order to draw better letters from the bag, I just couldn't give up my consonants of many points.

Just when Robby had given up trying to win, he blew me out of the water with his seven-letter word "eq(u)ines", in which the Q sat on a triple-letter space, earning him a total of 93 points. An all-time high for one single letter. He had been drawing many vowels & trading them in for better letters, only to receive vowels again when he drew from the bag.

Robby's best words: "eq(u)ines", "fawn", "unsaid".
My best words: "deign", "undie", "torpor", "coot".


Jeanne 376
Robby 296

P.S. I wouldn't mind being 9-months pregnant a little longer, if only to postpone all the uncertainty that lies ahead. My nine-month mark starts tomorrow, & I have no idea what to expect when early labor begins.