The 2022 all-play-all competition sees a change to previous years.

Every club member had to play at least half of the other members in the all-play-all by July 31st to qualify for the second phase. 

Below are the 17 players who will be going forward to the second phase.

The top 4 will play one game each other before September 30th to determine the all-play-all winner.

Those in places 5-8 will play each other similarly for a minor trophy.

The same applies to those placed 9-12 and 13-17.

Good luck in the next phase everybody!

 

  Played Won Win % Pos
Helen 16 14 87.5 1
Graham 17 13 76.47 2
Richard 16 12 75 3
Fiona 16 12 75 3
Wanda 17 12 70.58 5
Hepzi 16 11 68.75 6
Peter 14 8 57.15 7
Deborah 13 7.5 57.69 8
Maureen 15 8 53.33 9
Pat  14 7.5 53.57 10
Joy 14 6 42.85 11
Charles 16 6 37.5 12
Michael 17 6 35.29 13
Martin 17 4 23.5 14
Mary 12 2 16.66 15
Maire 16 2 12.5 16
Keith 16 0 0 17

 

Best improver for this part of the year is Joy Wade, ahead of Hepzi Rodrigues and last quarter’s winner Charles Parker.  Welcome to new member Peter Tart. 

 

High-scoring words:

·       149       CHERRIES                   Charles             (a 9-timer)

·       149       RETWISTS                   Charles             (also a 9-timer)

·       131       STIRRING                    Joy

·       107       REMAKING                  Charles

·       103       SHEARED                    Wanda

·       102       QUID/DIRK                   Joy

·       101       QUERIES                     Michael

·       99        STEALINGS                  Maire

·       98        RAUNCHES                  Helen

·       96        FARTING                      Peter

·       93        STAINED                      Graham

·       92        MEANIES                     Helen

·       92        SPECIAL                      Charles

·       91        DEFINES                      Charles

·       91        MAULING                     Michael

·       91        PENISES                      Graham

·       90        EMAILED                      Peter

·       90        POISONER                   Peter                (a 4-timer)

·       90        TORSIVE                      Graham

Also: GAOLERS 88 Michael, PLAITED 88 Maureen, SECONDI 87 Helen, REALIZES 86 Peter, CORRIDOR 83 Helen, FESTOON 83 Joy, BATTIER 82 Hepzi, NEUTRON 82 Peter, FISHERS 81 Maire, TEARING 81 Keith, ESCAPED 80 Keith, 80SHOUTED 80 Charles, SAINTED 79 Peter, SNEAKER 78 Maire, OUTNAME 77 Peter, SEATING 77 Maire, TENPINS 77 Hepzi, ADONISE 76 Keith, BEGETTER 76 Charles, FALTERS 76 Maire, FEZ 76 Maire, TEASERS 76 Maire, ORDAINS 76 Maire, PRIESTLY 76 Peter, REPAIRS 76 Keith, LANDERS 75 Hepzi, MINDERS 74 Maire, PLAINER 74 Keith, STOOLING 74 Peter, LAVVIES 73 Hepzi, LISTERS 72 Maire, POTTLES 72 Maire, SLASHER 72 Maire, URINATE 72 Charles, AIRMAIL 71 Maire, STRANGE 71 Charles, BARRIERS 70 Maire, DUBBERS 70 Maire, SOFTIES 70 Maire, STEAMER 70 Maureen, WAISTER 70 Maire, VARIETY 68 Keith, BLASTER 67 Maire, GILLETS 65 Keith, STUNNERS 63 Maire, FEMINISM 61 Charles

 

Many bonuses or high-scoring moves by one player in a game:

·       FESTOONS 74 INTENDS 63 AUDITOR 60                                            Charles

·       DARNING 71 UNEVENLY 80 TOENAILS 61                                           Fiona

·       INDOLING 64 BEELINE 78 WARTIEST 86                                             Graham

·       EXTERNS 82 TUNIEST 71 TORSIVE 74                                                Graham

·       RETRAIN 72 ALTERING 72 ERODENTS 80                                           Graham

·       OFFSIDE 81 ELATION 68 GAOLERS 72                                                Graham

·       SOLATED 67 DISRATE 81 RANSELS 74                                               Graham

·       ORDINATE 72 FLOUNCES 74 DIVERTS 67                                           Graham

·       RENEGADE 58 TUNICATE 74 FORESTS 80                                         Helen

·       THIEVER 80 TENDERED 70 CURTAIL 76                                             Helen

·       DETAINEE 62 ORGANIC 69 ZAGS 72                                                   Helen

·       AERATION 66 DITHERS 65 TRUDGES 63                                            Helen

·       ATEBRIN 67 RESTYLED 98 UNPAIRED 83                                           Helen

·       PERVADE 56 4-timer OBTAINED 70 NOSIEST 81                                  Helen

·       BRASSED 90 CANTERS 70 ANISOLE 64                                              Hepzi

·       ETERNAL 86 GITANOS 73 BRAEHEID SALTERN 74                             Richard

·       DEEPENS 71 BONSELA 71 ALTHORN 76 AMIRATE 73 +WINK 54            Richard

·       ESCORTED 80 IRIDEAL 69 WINGBEAT 97                                           Richard

 

Also:

·       New personal bests:      Joy Wade 452, Pat Llanwarne 458, Mary Twomey 413

·       9-letter words: TETCHIEST 73, HELMETING 45 Helen, REINCITES Richard

 

Name

Old rating

New rating

Rating change

P

W

D

L

Average

Highest score

Highest ever

Joy Wade

105

123

18

23

14

0

9

350.0

452

452

Hepzi Rodrigues

136

148

12

21

15

0

6

389.3

502

554

Charles Parker

106

112

6

32

13

0

19

339.3

479

509

Keith Radbourn

60

64

4

32

4

0

28

279.3

360

377

Maire Bennett

69

72

3

30

5

0

25

294.8

430

448

Helen Harding

166

169

3

35

27

0

8

420.3

513

597

Martin Stephens

103

105

2

27

12

0

15

338.8

461

477

Mary Twomey

79

80

1

15

3

0

12

340.7

413

413

Wanda de Poitiers

167

167

0

27

20

0

7

414.1

502

592

Michael Spencer

82

80

-2

35

8

0

27

313.0

403

502

Richard Spencer

169

165

-4

31

22

0

9

430.5

558

625

Fiona Titcombe

156

151

-5

14

9

0

5

389.7

498

535

Graham Harding

181

169

-12

37

27

0

10

424.2

573

661

Maureen Barlow

144

123

-21

33

14

0

19

364.3

435

528

Insufficient games – a previous quarter’s results, or 13 games in a quarter, needed to qualify

Peter Tart

 

139

14

18

11

0

7

382.3

501

501

Pat Llanwarne

127

135

8

9

4

1

4

368.8

458

458

Deborah Porter

129

133

4

10

5

1

4

364.5

465

542

Patrick Beatty

132

132

0

1

1

0

0

352.0

352

459

Sharon Hewitt

141

135

-6

4

2

0

2

386.5

409

548

Nina Thornhill

124

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

376

Jan Bailey

131

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

568

Tricia Walker

132

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

512

Anne Connolly

172

 

0

0

0

0

0

 

 

478

 

Richard Spencer, one of our members, played at the National Scrabble Championship over the weekend of June 11th-12th.   Here is his report about how he got on.

 

I play competitive scrabble as a hobby and played at the UK scrabble championship on the weekend of 11-12th June.  I have been a member of the East Berks Scrabble Club for 6 years and have played in regular tournaments across the UK but this was my first experience of playing in the biggest tournament in the UK calendar.

The tournament was held in a Bristol hotel with 16 games played over 2 days with a field of 80 players. Each player has 25 minutes on the clock to make all their moves.  The standard was high with a World Champion, US champion and several UK champions playing and the Sunday Times were covering the event.

I played the defending champion in game 2 and lost but it was a good learning experience and I managed to win 7 games in all to finish mid table.  The former world champion had a bad start losing 3 of his first 5 but won the tournament by winning his last 11 games to finish on 13 wins.

One highlight was playing against a blind girl who used an abacus to record all her scores and used braille tiles which were arranged in a tray. As well as laying her own tiles by touch she had to move her hands across the board to work out where I had played. She was also spot on with calculating all the scores for each of her moves and used less than half her time to complete her game–truly inspirational. 

 

Included above is a photo of one of the boards of one of the more interesting games against a stronger opponent.

When you play all your tiles you get a bonus of 50 points to add to your score for that word.  In this game I played three bonus words of SORDINI, DIVAGATE and REDOLENT while the opponent played BEETLED and AUTOGIRO.

I lost the game by 7 points as the opponent scored a few more points with some of his other words and played out first with SORTAL so had an extra turn than me. He pointed out that if I had blocked that move, he could have still gone out with TOLARS bottom right also making EWT.

All in all it was a challenging but very enjoyable experience meeting a lot of interesting and friendly people.

Richard Spencer

A new word list came into effect on Tuesday 19 April 1922.

Known as CSW21, though it was actually published as a Collins book in 2022, it has no additions to the previous word-source.

However it contains a large number of deletions, primarily offensive terms for people. Examples include JEW, LEZ, DAGO and many more besides.

Please note that all articles, puzzles etc published on this website prior to 19 April 2022 will NOT be retrospectively changed to reflect the new word list. 

 

Happy New Year!   Welcome back to Hepzi Rodrigues, Nina Thornhill, and Patrick Beatty.   Best improver for this part of the year is Charles Parker, ahead of last quarter’s winner Joy Wade, and Sharon Hewitt. 

High-scoring words:

·       185       COMMERCE                Keith                 (a 9-timer)

·       106       CAMPSITE                   Graham

·       104       HUTTING                     Graham

·       102       HEARKEN                    Charles

·       102       CAVERNS                    Michael

·       100       FOLDERS                     Maureen

·       98        ENDORSE                    Maureen

·       96        BENEATH                     Martin

·       96        HERNIAS                      Graham

·       96        INKIEST                       Maureen

·       95        ACHIEST                      Richard

·       93        FAMINES                     Helen

·       93        WOOMERAS                Graham

·       90        REGRETS                    Helen

·       90        ACQUIRE                     Maureen

·       88        ANGELIC                      Richard

·       86        ANDESITE                    Helen                (a 4-timer)

·       85        VIRGINS                      Charles

Also: 82 CRAVINGS Maureen, 82 GOULASH Richard, 81 MATURER Keith, 80 BROOKING Charles, 80 SEDATING          Graham, 80 ACACIAS Helen, 79 GUTTERS Maire, 79 UNLOADS Maureen, 79 LOERIES Helen, 79 STEELIE Richard, 78 INVITER Maureen, 77 VINTAGES Graham, 76 FEINTER Charles, 76 RETIRED Maire, 76 TALAQ Helen, 75 FLAUNTS Richard, 75 NECROSE Richard, 74 LASERING Richard, 74 WALTZES Charles, 72 VAUNTED Wanda, 72 UNSCREWS Charles, 72 REGISTER Charles, 72 ARRANGE Maire, 72 FLANK Wanda, 72 JADE Keith, 71 RUNNERS Keith, 69 SAUCIER Charles, 69 RETAINERS Maire, 69 SARDINE Maire, 67 DEALERS Maire, 65 ATTACKER Keith, 64 MEDDLING Maire, 64 SPLINTER Maire, 64 DOUANES Richard, 63 SHEARING Keith, 63 STUDIES Maire, 63 PRANCING Charles, 51 NAARTJIE Fiona, 50 FOEHN Helen

 

Many bonuses or high-scoring moves by one player in a game:

·       ENTAILS 65 HANDIER 67 REPINES 80 AUNTIES 80                 Wanda

·       STROBED 76 OUTRIDE 68 DISTILL 65 SALICETS 88               Helen

·       RETICLES 83 DISTHENE 89 RESILING 68 RELACING 65            Richard

·       ERASION 75 FENDERS 76 ALIMENT 86 OUTSTARE 77            Graham

·       TARRING 73 ORIGANE 69 IRISATE 70 LEANEST 66                Graham

·       PETUNIA 74 SNOTTILY 80 EDIFIED 87                                     Fiona

·       ANISEED 63 RETIMING 69 QUITTED 78                                   Tricia

·       READMIT 75 OBVIATED 66 FANCIES 71 (consecutive moves)            Helen

·       FACTIONS 86 WHORLING 86 PSALTERS 90                            Helen

·       GUESTED 70 TAENIAS 78 PRATTLED 86                                 Helen

·       DEMISES 90 EATERIE 73 INOSITE 72                                      Wanda

·       NITRIDE 70 GARBLES 85 NOTABLE 75                                    Wanda

·       LEANEST 70 SPURTLE 71 BOOSTER 77 (consecutive moves)            Richard

·       RESTATE 85 LEMONADE 83 ROUNCES 75                              Richard

·       GRASSED 78 SEMITIC 72 WAITRONS 83                                 Richard
(Richard got 3 bonuses in 4 other games, a selection of the words are above)

·       EQUINES 88 BLOUSIER 74 GETTABLE 76                               Graham

·       ADRENAL 86 PIETIES 74 VERBOSE 84                                    Graham

·       SPRAINT 69 STEDING 70 OBVIATED 78                                  Graham
(Graham got 3 bonuses in 2 other games, a selection of the words are above)

 

 

 

Name

Old Rating

New

Rating

Rating Change

P

W

D

L

Average

Highest score

Charles Parker

86

106

20

32

16

0

16

313.4

451

Joy Wade

90

105

15

32

12

0

20

337.5

445

Sharon Hewitt

129

141

12

13

7

0

6

371.5

478

Michael Spencer

73

82

9

36

10

0

26

296.5

398

Tricia Walker

130

132

2

15

8

0

7

371.3

448

Maureen Barlow

142

144

2

38

23

0

15

364.1

487

Richard Spencer

170

169

-1

34

24

0

10

427.5

593

Graham Harding

183

181

-2

48

40

0

8

440.8

618

Maire Bennett

72

69

-3

33

4

0

29

278.2

382

Hepzi Rodrigues

139

136

-3

18

9

0

9

361.3

472

Wanda de Poitiers

171

167

-4

34

24

0

10

417.7

544

Fiona Titcombe

162

156

-6

28

16

0

12

383.4

475

Helen Harding

172

166

-6

38

26

0

12

416.8

546

Keith Radbourn

67

60

-7

32

1

0

31

287.8

371

Deborah Porter

142

129

-13

15

6

0

9

358.9

492

Martin Stephens

120

103

-17

18

6

0

12

339.1

473

Pat Llanwarne

146

127

-19

14

6

0

8

348.9

436

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Insufficient games – a previous quarter’s results, or 13 games in a quarter, needed to qualify

 

Nina Thornhill

80

124

44

3

2

0

1

371.3

376

 

Anne Connolly

133

172

39

4

2

0

2

376.3

424

 

Patrick Beatty

112

132

20

3

3

0

0

404.7

447

 

Mary Twomey

79

79

0

2

0

0

2

332.5

388

 

Jan Bailey

131

131

0

0

0

0

0

 

0