#13 "ZAP"

totals:

louis: 285
lois: 279

inspired by their second viewing of 'the dark knight,' this was to be an exciting and heroic batman-themed game. though neither lu nor lo played a single batman word, one might say that the game itself paralleled the movie's plot, as the two opponents (the noble and principled lu, with his "STEED", "VOTER" and first ever bingo, "FOAMING", against the dangerous and unhinged lo, with her "CLAQUE", "MOBS", and "YETI") fought a bitter and harrowing battle over the fate of humanity in this city.

#12 "ZITS"

totals:

lu: 305
lo: 264

in this exciting match lu played a dazzlingly "NEON" bright, "FAB" game, both defeating lo and clearing the 300 mark for the first time. lo could not help but watch "ENRAPT" as lu proved himself the "FOUNDER" of scrabble. lo stood in the "QUEUE" waiting for her chance to "CHIDE" the intrepid hero and remind him of his status as a veritable "BOVINE" of the game, slowly meandering past 200, like a "YETI" looking for pray to grasp with his "PADS". but lu popped the "ZITS" of prejudice with his "AWE" inspiring win!

#11 "DONUT"

totals:

lu: 221
lo: 279

lu's expertly played "GONDOLAS" and "VOWELS" are undoubtedly this game's best words. the best thing of all, though, is that reading straight across the rows, as if words that are lined up create a sentence, yields the cryptic (but ultimately quite true?) "DONUT ON US".

#10 "QOPH"

totals:

louis: 245
lois: 323

some highlights: "CLIMBERS" (50-point bonus!), "FABLED", and "JARRING". lu, stooge that he is, deserves credit for the impressive "STOOGED", and lo deserves credit for the less impressive "ADMIX", a word she learned on a tour of a beer factory in russia. "QOPH", lo's desperate attempt to get rid of a late-game "Q", can mysteriously be found on almost any list of accepted scrabble q-without-u words, but is in almost no actual dictionaries.