Challenging the Scrabble challenge
Our team in the Reading Connections Scrabble Challenge faced off against a team of WFMY folk. Our group was nervously confident. They were veterans of the challenge; Dawn Kane, Romy McGinnis and Marie Inkenbrandt had been there before.
We won the first game, but lost the second when the FMY team bought a lifeline, a roaming expert who looked at their tiles and made a suggestion using all the letters. Paliest.
Paliest? Means most pale, at least to the 17 people in the world who know the word. Normal people would say palest.
The FMYers got 80-some points on that one, which pushed them over the top. Congratulations to both teams.
Remember, it was a fundraiser.