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    As is her yearly tradition, DENA WEINSTEIN sent in some of her delicious home-baked goodies. This year we were treated to yummy cupcakes for our 30th Annual Scrabble Club 276 Awards night! Once again, JED MARTINEZ cleverly prepared a Scrabble Board to welcome our members and guests to the evening's festivities!   Gifts of appreciation were given to my two Assistant Directors, LARRY GRADUS and HOWARD PISTOL for all of their help during the year. Other gifts of appreciation were given to some of our other members who also have helped me in different ways to ensure that our Awards Night would be a wonderful success. CHERYL LEVIN, who opens up her office the Sunday before Awards Night to me so that I can make the multiple copies of all the stat booklets to distribute. DENA WEINSTEIN, for all of the delicious treats that she sends into our club with IAN, not only on Awards Night but all year through. TERESA SCHAEFFER, who takes many of our photos during Awards Night. And much thanks also goes to MARTY ROSEN who also took many terrific photos during the evening!  And last but not least, appreciation gifts were also given to the two wonderful woman, EVELYN and JOY who work at Veterans Park and are so pleasant and helpful to us each week. L-R: Joy, Evelyn Before I started announcing our year's winners, SHEREEN WEINSTEIN took the floor and on behalf of the Scrabble Club #276 she said some lovely words and presented me with a gift of their appreciation. I can't even begin to tell you how good it makes me feel when I read the names of the contributors on the gift card that showed me how much they appreciate all the hard work that goes into making our club such a fun place to attend all year long!    LET THE SCRABBLE AWARDS CEREMONY BEGIN!          Congratulations to all of our 2018 winners in the following categories:
2018 MOST IMPROVED PLAYER 1ST PLACE CONOR MUNRO Raising his winning percentage by 12.25 % =================================== 2ND PLACE SANDEE BLOOM Raising her winning percentage by 11.71%  TERESA SCHAEFFER Raising her winning percentage by 7.38 %  Sandee presenting certificate to Teresa Schaeffer 2018 HIGHEST SCORING WORD 1st Place TIE 194 pts - IAN WEINSTEIN - "BIOFILMS" 194 pts - MICHAEL VACIANNA - "REWASHED" 2nd Place 3-Way TIE for 158 pts CARL STOCKER tied himself with the words "ENFORCED" & "UNVERSED" each 158 pts 158 pts - MARTY ROSEN - "FAULTIER" 3rd Place - 141 pts SANDEE BLOOM - "FAINTERS"  L-R: Marty Rosen (also holding Carl Stocker's award), Ian Weinstein (also holding Michael Vacianna's award) Sandee Bloom A "Bamdinger" is one word that scores 100 points or more! There was a total of 65 Bamdingers played at our club during 2018 by 20 of our Scrabble players. Only three of these 65 were phonies! Below are the winners who attended our 30th Awards Night proudly holding up their 2018 Bamdinger Certificates!  Back Row L-R: Ian Weinstein, Howard Pistol, Marty Rosen, Fred Weinstein, Roy Kamen, Lewis Gornitz, John Thomason Front Row L-R: Larry Gradus, Maddy Kamen, Sandee Bloom, Gerry Smith, Elaine Patterson, Joanne Cohen, Teresa Schaeffer To view these 65 Bamdingers which were scored during 2018 and also all the other 100+ words in the "Bamdinger Hall of Fame" since our records began, please click on the link below. 2018 MOST BAMDINGERS 1st Place IAN WEINSTEIN - 10 BAMDINGERS 2nd Place - HOWARD PISTOL - 7 BAMDINGERS
3rd Place - ROY KAMEN - 6 BAMDINGERS  L-R: Howard Pistol, Ian Weinstein, Roy Kamen 20 18 HIGHEST WINNING GAMES FIRST PLACE JOANNE COHEN - 629 Pts 2nd Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 621 Pts  L-R: Joanne Cohen, Ian Weinstein, Gerry Smith 20 18 HIGHEST LOSING GAMES FIRST PLACE CONOR MUNRO - 453 Pts 2nd Place - MADDY KAMEN - 447 Pts  L-R: Maddy Kamen, Sandee Bloom 2018 PLATEAU Certificates for Total Winning Games at Scrabble Club 276 (The levels are 50, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 2000 and 3000) This year we had SEVEN who have either reached the first plateau of winning games or have upped their levels to the next plateau. 250 PLATEAU AWARD FRED WEINSTEIN - 257 Winning Games 100 PLATEAU AWARDS DIANNE KAPLAN - 117 Winning Games ROY KAMEN - 115 Winning Games MADDY KAMEN - 114.5 Winning Games TERESA SCHAEFFER - 111 Winning Games MERVET HEARTBERG - 108.5 Winning Games 50 PLATEAU AWARD PAUL IZIKOFF - 50 Winning Games  L-R: Paul Izikoff, Fred Weinstein, Teresa Schaeffer, Roy Kamen, Maddy Kamen ===================== 2018 BEST BINGO AVERAGE 1st Place - ROY KAMEN 2.226 2nd Place - IAN WEINSTEIN 2.092 3rd Pace - MADDY KAMEN 2.000  L-R: Ian Weinstein, Maddy Kamen, Roy Kamen 2018 MOST BINGOS 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 272  L-R: Ian Weinstein, Roy Kamen, Maddy Kamen 2018 MOST 400+ GAMES 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 96  L-R: Ian Weinstein, Maddy Kamen, Roy Kamen 2018 MOST 500+ GAMES 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 21 2nd Place - ROY KAMEN - 11 3rd Place - JOANNE COHEN - 10  L-R: Ian Weinstein, Joanne Cohen, Roy Kamen 2018 BIGGEST WINNING STREAK 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN  2nd Place: 12 Consecutive Games HOWARD PISTOL  3rd Place - 3-Way Tie: 8 Consecutive Games MADDY KAMEN, ROY KAMEN & CONOR MUNRO  2018 HIGHEST AVERAGE 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 441 3rd Place - MADDY KAMEN - 418  2018 MOST WINS 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN - 99  2018 HIGHEST WINNING PERCENTAGE 1st Place - IAN WEINSTEIN .762 2nd Place - HOWARD PISTOL .703 3rd Place - ROY KAMEN .696  L-R: Howard Pistol, Ian Weinstein, Roy Kamen For many years, Ian has been our top-rated player! Since this was our special 30th Scrabble Award Night, I thought it would be interesting to find out how many of our players were able to win their games against Ian, the "Fasted Gun in the South." I presented Ian with a framed picture that lists his wins and losses against many of our players over the years. This picture and information was also included in the packet of club statistics.
 Congratulations to all of our members who received awards and thank you to our entire membership who help to make our Scrabble club such a fun, interesting and competitively challenging place to be every Wednesday night! Packets of our 2018 club statistics and individual statistics were then handed out to all. As is my custom, along with the packets, I also gave a gift to all of our Scrabble Club players who have attended our club a number of times during the year. This year I gave a multitasking gift to everyone. Our players can now clearly fill out their Scrabble score sheets with a pen that has nice dark, easy-to-see ink and then they can turn that pen into a telescopic back scratcher! How neat is that?!!!   Here's looking forward to another fun year at our Scrabble Club and wishing everyone a very happy and healthy 2019!                      ============================  Due to the efforts of Rebecca Slivka, Director of the Seattle Club, as well as others, NASPA's new bulletin now states that the following new 2019 Scrabble words will go into effect on March 1, 2019. (Stay tuned for any further changes to this proposed schedule!) The following list of new 2019 words was compiled by Harry Decker from the Phoenix Scrabble Club.   Yowza! 300 new words added to Scrab The Guardian, Mon 24 Sep 2018 ble dictionary! (These words will not be acceptable at Scrabble Club #276 or in tournament play until sometime during 2019!) Scrabble players will have to rethink their game after new words, including OK and EW, added to approved list More than 300 new words, including bizjet and arancini have been added to the the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. Three hundred new words have been added to the official US Scrabble dictionary, including sriracha, aquafaba, beatdown, zomboid, twerk, sheeple, wayback, bibimbap, botnet, emoji, facepalm, frowny, hivemind, puggle and yowza. Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary on Monday, four years after the last version. Included in the new edition are some long-awaited two letter words, notably OK and ew. “OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time,” said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster. “Basically two- and three-letter words are the lifeblood of the game.” There’s more good news for Scrabble players with the addition of qapik, a unit of currency in Azerbaijan, adding to an arsenal of 20 playable words beginning with q that don’t need a u. “Every time there’s a word with q and no u, it’s a big deal,” Sokolowski said. “Most of these are obscure.” Yowza is one of the new words added to the official dictionary. There are some high scorers now eligible for play, including bizjet, meaning a small plane used for business, which, if played as a plural – bizjets – as an opening gambit, would be worth a whopping 120 points due to the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles and the double word bonus space usually played at the start. There are also words that will be great for getting rid of unwanted vowels, like arancini, those Italian balls of cooked rice. The Massachusetts-based dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble Players Association when updating the book, Sokolowski said, “to make sure that they agree Sokolowski has a favorite among the new words but not, primarily, because of Scrabble scores. “It’s macaron,” he said, referring to the delicate French biscuit. “I just like what it means,” he said. Merriam-Webster put out the first official Scrabble dictionary in 1976. Before that, the game’s rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted. Since an official dictionary was created, it has been updated every four to eight years. There’s often chatter around Scrabble boards over which foreign words have been accepted into English to the degree they’re playable. In this new dictionary, schneid, a word with German roots that refers to a losing streak, as well as bibimbap, cotija and sriracha have all been added. Scrabble was first trademarked as such in 1948, after it was thought up under a different name in 1933 by Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect in Poughkeepsie, New York. Interest in the game picked up in the early 1950s, according to legend, when the president of Macy’s happened upon it while on vacation. Below are some of the new 300 words that have been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Please remember...These words will not be acceptable at Scrabble Club #276 or in tournament play until sometime during 2019! AQUAFABA: The liquid that results when beans are cooked in water. Aquafaba is used especially in vegan cooking as an egg white substitute. ARANCINI: An appetizer of deep-fried rice balls stuffed with savory fillings. Yum. BEATDOWN: A literal violent beating, or an overwhelming defeat. BESTIE: Best friend. BIBIMBAP: A Korean dish of rice with cooked vegetables, usually meat, and often a raw or fried egg. It’s often served in a special stone bowl. Delicious. BITCOIN: What cool/foolhardy people use for money. BIZJET: A small plane used by corporate executives. BOKEH: Coming from the Japanese word for “blur,” it’s the aesthetic quality of the blurry background in some photos that contrasts with the sharp focus on the subject. Like this gorgeous one. BOTNET: A network of computers that have been linked together by malware, hacking, etc. First used in 2003, according to Merriam-Webster; we’ve been bedeviled for quite a while now. CANKLE: Cankles are thick ankles; it’s a portmanteau of calves + ankles. Mean. CAPTCHA: The computer security technology requiring Web page visitors to look at one or more pictures and answer a question to prove that they’re human and not computer bots. When you fill out The Style Invitational’s entry form, such as this week’s, you’re likely to be asked to check off which of nine photos contain a picture of a vehicle, etc. And yes, of course, the bots are figuring it out. CAPCOM: Capsule communicator, the person responsible for communicating via radio with the crew of a space mission. The government luvvvs portmanteaux. CHYRON: Pronounced “ky-ron,” it’s the caption that runs under video clips, as on the news, and named for a 1970s manufacturer. CONLANG: Constructed + language, a language that’s purposely invented, such as Esperanto or Klingon, rather than one that develops organically. My guess is that conlangs tend to have a lot of portmanteau words, like conlang. COTIJA: A hard, white, crumbly Mexican cheese, described as resembling a cross between feta and parmesan. It doesn’t melt. EMOJI: Well, you know what that is. But did you know that the name doesn’t come from “emotion,” as “emoticon” does? According to M-W, it’s a Japanese portmanteau: “e” for “picture”; “moji” for “letter” or “character.” Also, it says, the plural may be either emoji or emojis. EW: Non-tournament Scrabble players are surely not turning up their noses at this immensely helpful addition to the two-letter-word list. EXOME: Pronounced EX-ome, it’s another portmanteau, exon + genome. The exome is the portion of the genome known to encode proteins; sequencing the exome rather than the entire genome is less costly but still yields useful data. FACEPALM: A noun or a verb referring to covering your face in dismay. FARRO: A large-grained kind of wheat that is nutritious and delicious. (You may notice that I seem to find every kind of food delicious. This is not quite true: I can’t learn to like Asian bitter melon, and, well, Peeps and candy corn aren’t food, so they don’t count.) FROWNY: M-W lists it as a noun as well as an adjective. So: Does it really take more muscles to frown than to smile, as your aunt’s favorite chain email insists? Snopes determines it “unproven,” but does supply an amusing variety of muscle counts. GAMIFY: It does not mean to make something smell like roadkill; it’s adding games to training programs to make them more interesting and understandable. Gamification is the noun. HIVEMIND: The one-word variant of hive mind, “the collective thoughts, ideas, and opinions of a group of people (such as Internet users) regarded as functioning together as a single mind,” as a hive of bees does. I wouldn’t say the Loser Community is “a single mind,” opinion-wise, but it’s a heck of a collective repository of knowledge and source of wit. JUDGY: Pejorative for the already-by-now pejorative judgmental. LISTICLE: List + article, an “information” format popular with those who tend not to read two paragraphs in a row. MACARON: A little French meringue sandwich cookie. It is, needless to say, delicious. Not the same as macaroon or Macron. MULLOWAY: “A large, silvery fish (Argyrosomus japonicus synonym A. hololepidotus) of chiefly coastal waters from Africa to Australia that is valued as a food and sport fish. I have never had this fish, but I am sure that it is delicious. NUTJOB: Choose your own example. NUBBER: In baseball, a weakly hit grounder. OK: Added for the two-letter spelling. M-W dates it back to 1839, and says it was a joke-spelling abbreviation for “all correct.” ONBOARD: As an adjective, describing what’s carried in a vehicle, etc. Huh, I see that M-W does not yet acknowledge its corporate-speak use as a verb: to introduce and integrate a new employee into the workforce. Nor does it say it’s an adverb, as in “the new passengers came onboard.” I guess aboard still lives. PAPASAN: A bowl-shaped chair on a cylindrical base, usually wicker or rattan. What you get at Pier 1. PIZZAZZ: That fourth Z adds that much more ... flair and panache! PUGGLE: Pug x beagle, yet another portmanteau crossbreed. ROOTKIT: A malicious piece of software that grants a remote operator complete access to a computer system. SANTOKU: A Japanese chef’s knife whose top curves downward at the tip. SCHNEID: A losing streak. It derives in some complicated way from a German idiom for tailor that was used in card games. SHEEPLE: “People who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced : people likened to sheep.” SHO: An archaic monetary unit once used in Tibet — and surely included now only to provide a strategically useful three-letter Scrabble word. SRIRACHA: Now-ubiquitous red hot sauce (not a trademark!). It is delicious but not my favorite red hot sauce, which is this. SUBSTORM: A localized disturbance of the earth’s magnetic field in high latitudes, typically manifested as an aurora. TRUTHER: M-W defines it as “one who believes that the truth about an important subject or event is being concealed from the public by a powerful conspiracy.” In actual use, it’s a disparaging term to describe someone who’s taken in by crackpot claims and theories. TWERK: Twerking: Sexually suggestive dancing characterized by rapid, repeated hip thrusts and shaking of the buttocks especially while squatting. First known use: 2001. So think of all the years when the word existed but you didn’t have to read about it. But have you tried doing it? UPCYCLE: To recycle into a product more valuable than the original, as to make expensive shoes from plastic bags. VAPE: To inhale an electronic cigarette. WAYBACK: The area in the very back of a van or SUV, the equivalent of the trunk of a sedan. WORDIE: Someone who’s fascinated by words and language. I don’t know anyone like that. YOWZA: Interjection “used to express surprise or amazement.” ZEN: A Buddhist sect, or, lowercase, “a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than by conscious effort.” Another long-overdue and direly needed addition to the three-letter Scrabble list. Not to mention the list of Z-words. ZOMBOID: The adjectival form of zombie. While the zomboid form of adjective would be aaaaaad-jehhhhhhhc-tivvvvvvvve. ============================================  I have been directing our club since 1986 – that’s 32 years and I put a lot of time, effort and love into making this a fun and competitive club! And although our club is so much a part of me I realized that some New Rules had to go into effect IMMEDIATELY for me to continue as your director!
1. GETTING TO CLUB ON TIME! Starting immediately, Game 1 will begin at 5:50 PM! Therefore, I suggest that you get to club no later than 5:45 PM. At 6:45 PM, the song "Rocky's Theme" will play which will announce the IMMEDIATE end of your game no matter whose turn it is. Pens down. It's OVER! Your score sheets will be given to me at once so that we can be paired for our next game. Game 2 will then begin at 6:50 PM with the alarm sounding at 7:45 PM. Game 3 will begin at 7:50 PM and the final alarm will go off at 8:45 PM. We will be out of Veterans Park before 9:00 PM so that Evelyn, the recreation center worker, doesn't have to wait for us anymore and can close the recreation center when she is supposed to! Let me explain this a little bit more…. I don’t care if there are only a few people here at 5:45 PM. First come, first served. When you come in you will be paired with the person who came in right before you. If there is an odd number of people, you will have to wait until someone else comes in and that is whom you will play…..and so on. If you feel like you won’t have enough time to play a game that will end when the alarm sounds, you can choose not to play that game and wait for the next game to begin (but the full night’s fee will be paid). If you end up sitting out because you were the last one in after 5:45 PM, this will not count as a “sit out” on my list. If you are not happy with this, you are certainly free to leave. If we are still odd after the first game, I will then use the sit-out list for the next two games. 2. COMPLAINTS This one is simple….I just don’t want to hear any more of them! 3. TEMPERATURE OF ROOM If you have a problem with a hot room, please call the Rec Center earlier in the day of club to make sure that the air conditioning is working that night. If you can't deal with having just the two fans that night, please stay home in the comfort of your own air-conditioned place. The Veterans Park phone number is 954-572-1459. 4. MATCH-UPS Don't tell me that you don't want to be matched up with any specific person. It's not going to happen! We try to randomly match up the first game so whomever you are randomly matched up with, you will play. Sometimes you might be matched up randomly with the same person a few weeks in a row. That's life. 5. TALKING When I am making announcements, I expect all the talking to stop so that I can be heard and we can get on with our games. This also comes under the heading of "Common Courtesy, Consideration & Good Manners." 6. SCORE SHEETS Every week I get score sheets without names of opponents, without names of opponents, without bingos listed and many other errors. From now on I will just enter what is there. I think we can still have a fun club even with these new rules. All you have to do is come here earlier and have some consideration for me when I am talking and not complain about things. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the players who have attended our club since these New Rules have gone into effect. I am happy to say that there has been a lot of understanding and agreement with these new rules from our attending members. Not only does our club run much smoother now but we are also able to leave in plenty of time before the recreation center closes!
**************************************************************** Click on this link Club News Page to see what has been happening at Scrabble Club 276 during the months of October 2017 through December 2017!  =========================As of April 1, 2015 we have been officially using the new words at Scrabble Club 276!  If you would like to print out the newest 2-3 letter "Cheat Sheet" which has all the new additions in red font, please click the following link. 2015 Cheat Sheet And for those of you who would actually like to know the meanings of some of these new words, much thanks to Rebecca Slivka for her "work in
progress."
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