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1st - Charles Reinke enhanced his club leadership position with a 4-0 +240 night, helping his own cause with a 461-405 closing win vs. brother Thomas. They each had three bingos, Charles with MANICURED  (a nine!), ALEWIFE and WORKABLE while Thomas salvoed back with LANDLERS, NIOBATES and GUARDANT.

2nd - Renato Umali's 4-1 +321 clinched 2nd place. He and Thomas each had 11 bingo plays, Renato's sole loss came at the hands of Mark Kenas in an atypically low scoring game 334-351. Renato had the only bingo there between both these experts, and it was appropriately enough the word SCROUNGE.

3rd- Mark Kenas, making an all too rare appearance at club finsihed at 3-1 +282 for 3rd. Mark admitted to being rusty from being away from competiion for awhile and so none of Mark's always awesome bingo finds (words like QUINCUNX) were on display for him this night in the 7 more plebian bingoes he played.

Without any other Intermediates available, Sue Goldstein played all of her 4 games against experts...and she finished with a very respectable 2-2 -176 final tally. Her wins came against Mary Becker and Betty Hasselkus. 

Also worth noting, Thomas Reinke fell just shy of the elusive "600" club with his 595-231 game with Shayla Dunn. Thomas played bingoes of EARNERS, STUNNER, VAPOROUS and GOETHITE during that game. 

Between Richard and Lynda there were 18 bingos in 4 games and an average game score of 436. The final result was 2 and 2 for both, but Richard led in Spread (+192), number of bingos (10), high score (544) and cool plays (boltonia and muscadel).

Charles Reinke wins three while shaking off egg-nog hangover!

1st Charles Reinke stumbled only once on the night, going 3-1 +233, his loss being to an ecstatic Helen Flores, 390-392. Helen's bingo of OUTRAGE was enough to overcome Charles' FINITES and the appropriate ANTICOLD. 

2nd Lynda Finn at 3-1 +174 won her first three games before running into Charles Reinke in the last match of the night.  Holding each of her first two opponents to 274 points contributed nicely to her point spread.  Her closest win was over the elusive Renato Umali, 406-391, which came despite Renato's phony "PREFORGE". 

3rd Mary Becker was the third player with three wins, going 3-1 +66.  Mary played the word of the week, SUNDRESS, in her first-round loss to Charles Reinke, then avenged that loss by beating Thomas Reinke 409-351, deploying the words BATCHES and INSIDERS to counteract Thomas' POSTWAR.

10 players came to play post-Christmas Scrabble and get away from their tiring relatives.  The prize word of the might was MEOU, chosen after a player tried "MIOU" on their opening turn and had it challenged off.  Renato Umali was awarded high M for his play of MOSHING (n. - frenzied dancing at a rock concert).  Mary Becker got low E with 7.  Thomas Reinke scored 81 with his play of AILERON, netting high O and showing that his study deep into the low-probability words is paying off.  Barb Besadny got low U with 6, proving once again that Hasbro should just take that letter out of the game entirely.