Scrabble 37x37

[ionelv]

I realized that my newest Scrabble board (37x37 regular sized tiles/squares, on a cement table top of 1m diameter since early August) was not featured here yet, so here is the final layout after our 3rd game (CSW19 dictionary, played over 6 out of 10 calendar days, 61 turns each, 34 combined total bingos [compared to 42 in our 2nd game or 33 in our 1st] using racks of 8 instead of usual 7 tiles; first time after reducing # of tiles from 642 to 606 current count in order to limit play with overcrowded board near game end with the last bingo scored on my last turn [RIPpLES] confirming that my tweak worked; 30 blanks total, same 50pt bingo bonus for using 7+ letters from rack to form words):

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[ionelv.livejournal.com]

On Oct 15, after the 7th game, I conceded to M's demands that we have too many C's and I reduced them from 23 to 15 effective our 8th game started the day after. The original count was related to a statistical analysis of English words that effectively had 23 Cs for every 600+ letters.

[ionelv.livejournal.com]

Starting with our 8th game (or earlier), we started scoring a 70-pt bingo bonus if all 8 rack letters are used in one play.