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dazzling find of ECOSSIASE - havent heard of it till now...!

sad miss at the end but a nice tight board 👀

Lovely game, well held! Thanks for sharing.

Great win :)

"Or am I?" Suddenly I'm watching an Edgar Wallace mystery. ps. fwiw dulcose has a hard c. Soft c is usually only before e, i or y.

29:10 SQUANDEROUS not good?!

was that a gunshot

What do you use to play scrabble online like this? Is it an app? Website?

I like it, when you evaluate the score of a given leave. You should do that more often.

Amazing word, MOCKUPS. 4 scoring tiles without a blank!

Thanks!

25:10 oXHIDES still possible on row B... but (from ur POV) that would most def result in a Q stick 😅

Love the videos. Why was FADERS better than FARSED? You normally say not to put vowels next to bonus squares if you have a choice.

why in the world would emocore take an S? it’s a genre…how strange

35:10 oh, TAIYAKI is not a word, it seems.... I thought I spotted a bingo there.

Your enthusiasm is so enjoyable to watch!

Yo quiero Taco Bell

Fabulous game to watch!

"WEBB not good with two Bs...", he says, and just casually moves on. 🙂

Squandering a point at the end. 😢

<3 love your content David

20:48 the grandmaster missed TAENI(A)TE.

I really like these videos. You are a very good player so it's interesting to watch, and you have a very calming voice so it's relaxing to listen to.

Great solve David, and an even better tribute to Richard. I just recently subscribed to the Times over here in Canada, it’s people like you, Richard, and Simon and Mark from CTC who got me into cryptic crosswords. Thanks for everything you do.

Another clean solve. And it's a shame to hear about Richard, he helped entertain so many people so it's always a wrench to hear these things.

Beautiful solve. Tragic news about Richard Rogan. No doubt he will have edited today’s puzzle as they will always be a few weeks ahead of publication. He’s known the world over, even here in far flung New Zealand. Condolences to his family.

21:00 acetyleNE on g2.

I played my firs,t scrabble game against an actual person yesterday and I froze...it was a 15 min game but even if I had the time I would not have seen what was on, you said in a previous video that you had already seen that you had missed a couple of 9 letter words in the championships, just remember that on the spot right there in the thick of it this is not an easy game, you are thinking of several things...score rack leave bingos....lets not try and open the board up here ect. its a clusterfudge :) you wont find that in the card box... :) ... you know why

used to play when we were kids, we played that if you laid down a word, and it was rejected as not being valid, you lost your go- were we wrong to play that rule?

Spotted DUNNITE immediately because I always get it confused in my cardbox with the phony INTUNED.

which 2 letter words can you add an "s" to?

tbf opp would still hv simple 2x2 options (RE(N)DEReD etc) even if the opening bingo were spotted... the games still not over 4 them 🙂 surprised by the miss of OCA rather than ACE... AEIN def a much cleaner leave isnt it? would hv set up ZENAIDA next go (AEONIC not terrible either). also - ZOA instead of ZA?

First time I’ve seen you have a bad game, you just seemed a bit off! Shows how often you bring your A game! Lovely upload thanks

Missing that bingo was critical.

That AI thumbnail is whack. Not cool. At least your gameplay is entertaining and instructive as always

You take your lumps like a gentleman David.

All about fractions but oca instead of ace in the same spot would've led to zenaida/ha next turn.

Do you know every bingo?

Hammered! :(

hilarious start to the game contemplated playing "DUNITE", but not "DUNNITE"

dunnite for your first word

Untinted? Why would you think that's a word? Now, frib and amrit -- those are proper words! (I just used untinted in conversation yesterday. The other person didn't seem terribly confused, so if it's not a word, it's definitely doing a word's job)

I don't like POMO at all. It felt far too defensive given the score. I thought either OVA or NOVA hooking ADIT introducing new bingo threats offered more chances of eking one out. What do you reckon?

FANCY 9 letter word 2 seal the game - thankfully not blocked since u might hv missed ur initial E hook on the ENDMOST turn 😅 ofc opps run of missed bingoes helped set up the comeback!

Thanks!

Way to hang in there. Never give up!

You had ENDMOST and UNCUTE before you spotted the nine

Good that PIEDMONTS didn't get blocked, was worried that ENDMOST//UNCUTE was about to be missed there.

Wondering why you preferred VIBE to HOVE at the start. Just back from Berlin - we had fun but you were missed. bw

Well played...actually glued to the screen !!✌❤