Three in a Row

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The other day, I was playing my third game against this quite worthy opponent. She drubbed me the first two games which I naturally blamed on bad tiles.

But my luck bounced back thricefold, for I was able to bingo three times in a row. I think that is a first for me. In the meantime, my opponent bingoed once and had a 50+ point play. In the five turn exchange we scored a combined 363 points (which is a good score for a whole game) and averaged 72.6 points a turn. Quite a volley!

Let's watch it unfold.

(click the picture to enlarge it)

Here I am on turn 4, up by just 10 points.

I was feeling pretty good for finding OBI the turn before, also forming OFAY. I later looked up OFAY because I had it played against me before, but I didn't know what it meant. Lo and behold it was not it my OSPD3. But I knew it was good because we were playing with the challenge mode on VOID. It must be one of the expurged words. So I just looked it up online. It is an offensive term for a white person. I guess I'm not offended because I never heard of it (that, and I'm Native American).

Anyway, I digress. At the top of the picture, you can see that my rack is ADEEMIT. What did I play?

I played MEDIATE at J9 for 68 points.

I saw this right away because it is on the flashcards I made that has the 373 most probable singletons (words with only one anagram).

So my opponent has a nice looking rack with a blank and a whole bunch of places to play. The rack is ?CEINRT. What did she play?

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