Yahoo! Literati Personal Bests

Updated: 7-3-06

Name: Derek Clark
Username: imperfectclark
Rating: 2154
Record: 900-202 (19 abandoned)


HIGH SCORES

Top 5 highest scores:

1.  507
2.  482 (opponent quit early)
3.  458
4.  448 (opponent quit early)
5.  436
6.  435
7.  434
8.  430
9.  430
10. 429
Top 5 highest margins of victory:

1.  399 (507-108; led 284-34!)
2.  353 (482-129) (opponent quit early)
3.  335 (430-95)
4.  331 (458-127)
5.  320 (423-103)
6.  281 (430-149)
7.  286 (397-111)
8.  284 (448-164) (opponent quit early)
9.  274 (384-110)
10. 274 (388-114)
Top 5 highest scoring turns:

1. 143 - "CADAVERS" (x6 bonus)
2. 137 - "STRIVING" (x6 bonus)
3. 125 - "INLAYERS" (x6 bonus)
4. 125 - "DECAYING" (x6 bonus)
5. 104 - "CRAVERS" & "TANS" (each x3)


Top 5 highest scoring non-bingo turns:

1. 90 - "OUT+STUD+IES" (x9 bonus!)
2. 84 - "ZEES" & "SPLINTERS" (each X3)
3. 72 - "STAVES" & "SATANISMS" (each x3)
4. 70 - "MASTITIC" (x6 bonus)
5. 63 - "SHAW", "WO", "AD"



MISCELLANEOUS SUPERLATIVES
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Highest scoring one-letter move 35 - (X, on a 3L to make "FAX" and "XI")
Longest word 11 (SURREAL + ISTS)
Most bingos in one game 5, five times
Highest scoring bingoless game 372
Most consecutive bingos to start a game 4 - (???, ???, SMARTASS, SMARTASS. Seriously. Opponent resigned..)
Highest rating reached 2280
Longest winning streak 38 games (browser crash ended it; last screen shot at 34 games)
Greatest deficit overcome in a match 97 points
Most points scored with a "puppet" opponent 753 (aided by a friend as my opponent; challenge mode off)
Highest scoring game witnessed 522 (The Elite's "Mr. Food", bingoing first 5 turns, 6 of first 7. Deemed "the perfect game")
Highest scoring move ever witnessed 167 (by Greg, RELAXANT (X on 3L, with 6W bonus!). Put him ahead 227-7, lol.
Highest combined score 701 (365-336)



BEST PLAYS
The following section details some of my favorite plays from games past.

Concatenation
These are instances where letters were appended to existing words,
usually in the interest of reaching a 2W or 3W.


AERAT+ION
BAR+TENDING
B+ETWEE+N
CL+AS+SISTS*
DIS+LODGES
ENMESH+ES
FACTO+RING
FISH+POND
FRIGHT+ENED
GUN+SHIP
OUT+STUD+IES**
OVEN+WARE
PAC+KA+GE+S
RE+CREATING

* - bingoed with this extension
** - connected two 3Ws!


Obscure Words
Here are some notably uncommon words.
(limited to bingos, unless otherwise noted)


ACROTIC
AECIAL*
AENEOUS
BAALISM
BULLAE*
ISOTONE
MASTITIC
NIELLIST
SEISMISM
THEINES
VOCODER

* - x4 bonus


Other Non-formulaic Bingos
Most bingos feature common prefixes or suffixes.
The following words were more the product heuristic anagramming.


AEROBICS
ASTEROID
CAPSIZE
CORNFED
CYANIDES
DIALYSIS
DOGEARED
DOGSLED
EASTWARD
EPILOGUE
EPSILON
HALFLIFE
INSOMNIA
LEXICONS
METAPHOR
MUUMUUS
NEXUSES
OATMEAL
ODYSSEY
RHUBARBS
SCAFFOLD
SHOGUNS
SOFTWARE
STARSHIP
TSUNAMI
WARTIMES
WILDCATS
ZYGOTES


"Bloopers"
Click for screenshots.

SMARTASS...played consecutive turns!?
BOY or GIRL?
E-I-E-I-0
HE got FUCT
interesting draw for any Internet historian...
HAMTARO
I SUCK
TNT is not always dynamite
Rating swap
SEAWORLD
ASS SEX (kekeke)
SO ALONE
SSSSSHIT
STINKO
U IS SEXY
U SUC
I LOSE
PZONED
Symmetric board
Twice the gayness
Incidental diagonal
Same letters
"Nice rack."
Horrible opponent
I invited Jimbo just so I could boot him.
The dreaded 8-letter glitch (reproducible)
The bots are evolving
another goatse
GODDAMN
BITCHIER
ASSHOLE
BY-BY-BY-BYE
_IGGERS (hahaha)
Gotta SEEEEEE it to believe it
WTF


SCREEN SHOTS Here are some plays that are best appreciated visually.













Note: The "MODELS" play covered two 2W bonuses for the x4 bonus.
It's the first and only time I've seen the scoring of a play spill onto a second line.



"SCRABOUT"
This is a program that emulates the Scrabble board and letter set, so these feats are directly comparable to Scrabble accomplishments.


Highest-scoring game: 902 - I scored 902 pts against the computer set on "dumb", basically. Still nuts.
Highest-scoring move: 221 - "Frothing"--I pulled off the vaunted (x9) bonus, with the H on the 2L!
Noteworthy plays: equalize, coquina, aeneous, ologies




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