Scrabble last week: Liam's farewell party

[supercheesegirl]

We played Scrabble last week. I organized it because my friend Liam just got a new job--he's going to be an editor/writer for Penn State (school of health and human development), which is a fabulous opportunity for him, but it means that he's going to be moving up to State College, PA, and we won't see him anymore. I'm really sad about that. Liam really kind of gets me, and he's smart and a lot of fun and I'm going to miss him a lot.

So, we played Scrabble. I got Congratulations signs from the dollar store, and a ridiculous pirate table centerpiece that captivated all of us and was a conversation topic for the duration of the Scrabble, and I brought the sugar cookies I'd made. Good turnout: me, Liam, Kristina, Christine, Kari, and Julie. We played two separate games.

My words:

28 points - ZAP
16 points - SLAVE
08 points - DONUT (yes, it's a word spelled that way)
12 points - OIL / LO / TI (OIL ended up right next to SLAVE, which put disturbing images in my brain)
25 points - JAGGY (built off Kristina's JAG--JAGGY is a word in its own right, and this inspired us to look at all the JAG-words in the dictionary, because there are quite a lot!)
16 points - HAIRS
17 points - ROBE / HE
50 points - QUOTA(S)/LOAD(S) (my brilliant play of the game, on the bottom left triple word block)
42 points - CHAI(S)/DRIVE(S) (I got the other blank tile and was able to make the exact same play on the upper right triple word block)
4 points - ID
+6 points from Kristina and Liam, since I went out first

224: final score

Liam came in second with a 163, and Kristina rounded it out with a 115. Possibly I should have let Liam win, since it was his party, but I couldn't resist the awesomeness of those blank tile/triple word moves.

In the other game, Kari won with a 214, Christine had 187, and Julie 175--a very high-scoring game. But my score beat Kari's, so I have the crown.