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1st Charles Reinke showed off his consistency (except in the "winning" department), bingoing twice in every game while going 3-1 +341 and coming in first place. His first game was a 433-315 win against Helen, where he bingoed with BEAKIEST and SOFTENED. He upped his scoring a little bit against Richard in the next round, 446-361. Richard bingoed with VOIDABLE (Charles later extended it to AVOIDABLE) and PETROLIC, while Charles played STYRENE (the anagram of YESTERN) and a nine-letter SLANGIEST through the GI that was on the board. In the third round, he faced off against a familiar (literally!) opponent, and lost 373-433. Charles did get down two nice bingos, MANEUVER and the very recently-added SCHNEID (n. a losing streak). Charles avoided going on a schneid of his own by beating Dennis 490-292 in the final game. His big play that game was BUTYLENE for 101.

2nd Thomas Reinke put together another outstanding performance in terms of bingos, playing 12 on the night, and came in second at 455-398 +226. He started off his night against Bryan, and won 459-372. Bryan bingoed with AETATIS (the obscure anagram of SATIATE) and GRIEVING, but couldn't get another bingo down with his blank at the end of the game. In the second round, Thomas lost to Dennis 363-490. Despite the drubbing, he managed two bingoes, WATERMEN (the M was a blank, so he could've played WATERHEN instead) and MONITIVE (adj. conveying admonition). In the next round, against Charles, he won 433-373, with a bingo trifecta of EPILATES, TRAMELED, and RECANES. Thomas saved his best for last, beating Helen 563-357 with bingoes of DANKEST, ALBIZIAS, IODINATE, and the triple-triple ALIENORS. To add insult to injury, Thomas blocked Helen's late triple-triple possibility of FROTHIER that would've won her the game; some say her anguished sighs can still be heard echoing in the First Congregational basement.

3rd Dennis Lloyd returned from places afar and displayed little rust, coming in third at 3-2 -7. His opening win against Sue, 394-328, was notable in that all three bingos that were played in the game were phony, two for him and one for sue. Sometimes you just have to make your own best play when the words in the dictionary do not suffice. He atoned quickly in his 490-363 win against Thomas, opening with the very non-phony PROLATE (adj. extended lengthwise). He also played LIGHTEST and DATINGS to win easily. In the third round, he faced Betty and Helen simultaneously. His game with Helen ended as a 331-419 loss. Against Betty he was more successful, countering Betty's bingoes of TENNIES and THORNIER with ETESIAN and WALLOPS and winning 465-379. He then lost all of the spread he had accumulated to this point, losing to Charles 292-490. Luckily, by application of the transitive property, since he beat Thomas, you could also say he beat Charles as well.

1st Thomas Reinke came in first place at 3-0 +468, slicing through the assembled Scrabblers like so many pieces of pumpkin pie. He started off by winning 527-291 against Helen, with the bingos coming in bunches: ARTSIER, IONOMER, SATIRISE, PREUNITE, and SALUTER. He had just gotten done giving thanks for the bingo cornucopia when he sat down to face Charles. He barely slowed down from his previous match, winning this one 516-306. Charles was held uncharacteristically bingoless, while Thomas had bingos of TANRECS (n. alternate spelling of TENREC, a mammal that looks kind of like a hedgehog), METALIZE, GRADATE, and TEASELED. In the third round, tragedy struck as Thomas was bingoed on for the first time of the night, with Bryan playing ANISEED. Thomas bingoed as well in that game, with FAINTING, and won a close one, 360-339.

2nd Aaron Bader went 3-0 +224 in his Collins series against Mark, coming in second place. In the first game, he won 521-338, kindly playing nothing but regular American-dictionary bingoes so that us plebeians don't have to get confused: ANTIARS, POETESS, and FORKIER (adj. FORKY, resembling a fork, as opposed to SPOONY, which means "overly sentimental"). The second round was a lot closer, with Aaron pulling it out 475-449. Mark bingoed with NOOKIER* and SOWBREAD (n. a type of CYCLAMEN, a flowering plant), and Aaron played PHORETIC, GERMINAL, and the fancy nine-letter VERSELETS. In their final match, neither Mark nor Aaron played a bingo, a very rare occurence for the Collins dictionary. Aaron "won" 355-340, but without a bingo, can we really say that he won at all?

1st Charles Reinke averaged an impressive 510 points per game on his way to a dominant 5-0 +802 finish. In round one, before the odd number of players was made even by the late arrival of Richard, Charles played two games at once and won both of them handily. He got five bingos (ANISOLE, BLOTTER, UNSEEING, UNDERLIP, and REGRATES) in a 575-335 win over Mary Becker. Michael David fared slightly better, but not much, as Charles took him down easily as well, 516-307. Michael got down ORATORY and DENOTES, while Charles had ARSINES, SCIURID, and FERRITE. Charles squared off against Bryan Benwitz in the second round and won a close one, 425-412. Both players had two bingos: BLITHER and DYNAMITE for Charles, VENDORS and RETAILS for Bryan, but a late miss of LINOTYPE for Bryan spelled his doom (get it? spelled!!). Against Barb Pratzel, Charles pulled out his third and final 500-point game of the night, unleashing a torrent of scoring on his way to a 569 total. His bingos were REFOUNDS, INERTIA, and KNAIDEL. Barb, meanwhile, got a bingo of SEALING on her way to 306. Charles put the finishing touches on his undefeated evening by scoring a solid victory over Richard Lauder, 462-386. PINITOLS, PAISANOS, and REDCOAT were his bingos in that one (Richard had BANNERS and TORMENTS).

2nd Michael David overcame a late arrival and some first-round adversity to finish with a 3-1 +81 record. His disastrous first game was outlined above, a 307-516 loss to Charles Reinke, but the plus side was that Michael got into a bingoing groove early with ORATORY and DENOTES. Michael would go on to have exactly two bingos in each of his next three games. His round two matchup began his heroic comeback as he defeated Mary Becker 444-341. His nine-letter find of ENTOILING, plus a natural AZALEAS (also word of the week!), sealed the victory, although Mary's RESTRAIN did put some fear back into his heart. Michel followed that up with another sizable win, this time beating Bryan Benwitz for the second straight week, 432-326. Bryan struck first with ADROITER, but Michael answered with DILUTERS and APERIES. A spot in the writeup was clinched in the final game when Michael took down Barb Prtazel 421-340. Barb found REBOOTED, but Michael again proved the value of outbingoing your opponent, playing UPBRAID and CERATOID.