DC Scrabble Club 171 Weekly Reports 2015

2015 Weekly Reports

November 10, 2015

We'll have pre-Veterans Day matches at the club on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Chevy Chase Community Center. Pairings will be at 5:30, 6:20, 7:10, 8:05, and 9. Come when you can. $2 contribution.

We should be back in our regular room, which now is showing a photo exhibit, "Black Broadway: This is U," from students at the museum studies division of D.C.'s Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

I'm sorry to report that our former longtime member Doug Hoylman has passed away at 72. Doug played his last tournament here in 2009. He competed in 81 tournaments, ending with a rating of 1316. In our club's first major tournament in D.C., in 2006, he won his division with a 15-3 mark. Doug was renowned in the crossword puzzle world, winning the American Crossword Puzzle Championship six times. He worked as an actuary at Geico.

My favorite story about him involves Scrabble only indirectly. One day in 1999, he mentioned he was going to be on national TV that week, but only his voice. I had no idea what he was talking about. It turned out that his Scrabble and crossword friend Trip Payne was the third contestant on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," which has a "call a friend" feature. Doug helped Trip win $32,000 by giving him the right answer to the question where did Ted Kaczynski teach before he became the unabomber. (Answer: University of California at Berkeley.)

Sorry, but I don't have any information about funeral/donation arrangements.

Last week's results, from director Carole Denton:

Carole Denton	3-0	+102	1 bingo
Veronica Thomas	3-2	 +86	9 bingos
Ted Gest	3-2	 +13	3   "
Gary Emanuel	3-2	  +6	2   "
Jason Jones	2-2	 +40	4   "
Paula McMartin	2-2	-296	
Ralph Moore	2-3	 156	7   "
Jenny Backus	1-1      +40	1   "
John Stinson	1-2      -13	6   "
Carol Tillson	1-3	 -36	8  "
Ellen Shurman	0-1	 -39

In lists below, * = not acceptable

BINGOS

ADVISER AERIEST AMATEURS BLINKER BREADING CANDLERS CHILIES DREARILY DRUGGING ENLISTED ENTASIA ENTRIES FORTIES FRONTERS GESTING* HITTERS INCISES INSIDES MERINOS NESTERS OPALINE ORBIEST OUTSIDE OVALINE PINWHEEL READINGS REGENTS RETAILER SADISTS SHADINGS SMARTIES SPEAKING SPEARING STONIEST STORING STRIDES TETHERS TRADING TWISTER VARIANT

CHALLENGES WON

ALONEST* APINGS/TENSERS* ANTERIAL* CHOWAN* DOWTING* FIED* FLAWN* LINTHES* NAWT* NEH* RAINEES* RETESTINGS* RETRED* SWIT* TAGTEAM* TRODS* UPGLANCE* YAGU*

CHALLENGES LOST

CANDLERS ROAN STELLAE STOA TESTINGS VENGE