Super Scrabble 061622 Results

Last Thursday, all players had a great time especially Najat, who became the newest 3-0 record holder in the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club. Congrats, Najat!

Last Thursday was also the first time that cash prizes for YTD average bingo scores were awarded to every player present during the games.

Category-word prize winners for the month of June are the following:

Category					Word		Points	Winner
All letters in ‘FLAG’					FLAGS		26	Renee
Most letters from ‘FATHERS’					MARLIEST		61	Gretchen
Containing ‘MM’					MEM		31	Lynn
High non-bingo					ZORI		94	Fern

Below are the stats for the month and year-to-date. Take note that phony bingos, challenged or not, were excluded from the bingo stats.

June 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Don Platt	3	1	33	1	0.3	852	770	802	64	64	64
Evelyn Davis	3	2	67	11	3.7	1035	851	968	106	62	77
Fern Trausch	3	2	67	9	3.0	1020	864	926	99	65	80
Gretchen Cowan	3	2	67	7	2.3	968	779	898	89	61	76
Lynn Gunn	3	0	0	4	1.3	828	751	782	85	70	78
Najat Reikes	3	3	100	7	2.3	930	826	882	91	60	78
Renee Kahn	3	0	0	4	1.3	819	622	747	83	73	78
Rick Duncan	3	2	67	2	0.7	996	831	894	78	59	69

Year-to-Date 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Alan Stern	6	0	0	13	2.2	935	823	866	104	64	79
Amnon Meyers	9	7	78	37	4.1	1044	905	960	146	58	79
Anthea Palmos	9	7	78	23	2.6	947	711	853	86	60	74
David Poder	9	2	22	12	1.3	1078	735	932	102	69	87
Don Platt	9	1	11	9	1.0	866	683	768	108	64	79
Evelyn Davis	9	5	56	31	3.4	1061	851	951	138	62	80
Fern Trausch	12	6	50	24	2.0	1020	726	851	99	65	77
Gretchen Cowan	6	4	67	16	2.7	968	779	891	103	61	80
Joel Elkins	6	4	67	13	2.2	1033	861	976	107	65	85
Lynn Gunn	12	5	42	23	1.9	981	726	847	97	60	78
Najat Reikes	12	7	58	29	2.4	1039	765	891	140	60	80
Nancy Douglas	3	1	33	6	2.0	786	732	767	82	70	77
Renee Kahn	6	0	0	6	1.0	819	622	768	83	66	76
Rick Duncan	9	7	78	13	1.4	996	831	907	106	59	78
Yukiko Loritz	9	7	78	41	4.6	1114	953	1043	104	64	79

Super Scrabble Players 06/16/22

The following players are signed up for the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club (MMMSSC) game session this Thursday, June 16, 2022, 11:00 am at Applebee’s Restaurant, Santa Ana Main Place Mall.

Najat Reikes
David Poder

Lynn Gunn

Gretchen Cowan

Rick Duncan

Renee Kahn

Don Platt

Evelyn Davis

There’s still plenty of room for other players, who are fully vaccinated, to join. Please let me know by tomorrow, June 12th.

Here’s a recap of the categories for prizes to be given away:

All letters in ‘FLAG’
Most letters from ‘FATHERS’

Containing ‘MM’

High non-bingo
High bingo with the letter ‘K’

Low bingo with the letter ‘K’

12-13 letters or 14+ letters long

All active MMMSSC players who are present during the games are guaranteed to receive a cash prize as determined by their current year-to-date average bingo scores.

As for newcomers, we are hereby pleased to announce that prizes will be also handed out to them as a “welcome to the club” gesture.

As always, stay safe and healthy!

Evelyn and Yuki
MMMSSC Co-directors

WGPO: Maliha Mendoza Mahmood remembered

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Maliha Mendoza Mahmood remembered

by Ruth Hamilton • June 9, 2022

From Yuki Loritz:

This past Sunday, June 4, Maliha Mendoza Mahmood’s husband Arshud and their daughter Alia hosted a memorial/celebration for the late Maliha’s birthday at their home. There were 15 Super Scrabble players who gathered to celebrate. We all lit candles, shared stories and memories about Maliha, enjoyed a catered lunch from Arshud, and played a Maliha-related trivia game as well as the dice game called Left Center Right. The last time we played Left Center Right was for Maliha’s birthday in June, 2019, and she won! She was so excited and overjoyed.

Everyone had fond memories, and some tears were shed. It was a beautiful memorial and celebration of this wonderful woman who started her self-named Super Scrabble club. We were all blessed by her time here on Earth, for she was the most gentle, loving, kind, generous, and spiritual person you could meet. She was one of a kind and will be truly missed. Alia said that it was probably a good thing that Maliha passed before the pandemic because it would have been so difficult for Maliha not to be able to see and hug her friends. I have to agree with Alia on that. These are pictures from the celebration:

Evelyn Davis and I are now codirectors of the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club, which meets on the third Thursday of every month. We have met on and off since the summer of last year due to the surges of COVID-19 cases. However, we hope that we will not have any more interruptions. Below is the most recent email with details for our upcoming meeting this month. We use WGPO’s TWL19 lexicon. Please email Evelyn or me if you are interested in attending this month or sometime in the future.
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It’s time once again for another day of 3 fun games of Super Scrabble.
When: Thursday, June 16, 2022, 11:00 AM
Where: Applebee’s Restaurant, Santa Ana Main Place Mall, 2nd floor, Suite 868
2800 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

If you have been fully vaccinated, please sign up no later than this Sunday, June 12th.
New prizes will be distributed to all players present during the games as determined by their current year-to-date average bingo scores.
In addition, prizes are in store for the following categories:
Game 1 – All letters in ‘FLAG’ (any order)
Game 2 – Most letters from ‘FATHERS’
Game 3 – Containing ‘MM’ (not necessarily together)
High non-bingo
High bingo with the letter ‘K’
Low bingo with the letter ‘K’
And don’t forget about the big prizes for words with 12-13 letters or with 14+ letters.

Hope to see as many as 20 of you at the June 2022 meeting of the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club (MMMSSC).

Yuki Loritz

yukikoloritz

Evelyn Davis

Tribute to Maliha 6/5/2022

After three years of planning, we finally came together to celebrate the life of our dear Maliha. It was wonderful and lovely and a huge success (so I’m told!), but without your participation, it would not have turned out the way it did and so my sincere thanks to you all as well. Special thanks to Arshud for welcoming us into his home and for the sumptuous lunch and to Alia for the beautiful display of her mom’s pictures and flower arrangements.

Last Sunday, we talked about Maliha’s spirit present among us and I think I have a living proof of that. You may call me wildly imaginative but here’s my story …

After I put out the flame from all the candles, two candles miraculously got lit again by themselves (May, Eliza and Najat can attest to that). In the realms of physics and chemistry, it must have been because there was this interaction between the breeze and a combination of a bit of wax that hasn’t fully burned, smoldering wick and trail of smoke. Whatever it was, I prefer to stay in the realm of Maliha’s spiritual presence.

I tried to keep track of what candle everyone was lighting because I was amazed at how seemingly symmetrical it was being done. If my recollection serves me right, I believe those 2 miraculously-lit candles were originally lit by Arshud and me. It’s as if Maliha was telling both of us – “You finally did it!!”

Well, folks, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it! 😊

All the best,

Evelyn

Super Scrabble 06/16/22

Hello everyone.

It’s time once again for another day of 3 fun games of Super Scrabble.

When: Thursday, June 16, 2022, 11:00 AM

Where: Applebee’s Restaurant, Santa Ana Main Place Mall, 2nd floor, Suite 868

2800 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

If you have been fully vaccinated, please sign up no later than this Sunday, June 12th.

New prizes will be distributed to all players present during the games as determined by their current year-to-date average bingo scores.

In addition, prizes are in store for the following categories:

Game 1 – All letters in ‘FLAG’ (any order)

Game 2 – Most letters from ‘FATHERS’

Game 3 – Containing ‘MM’ (not necessarily together)

High non-bingo

High bingo with the letter ‘K’

Low bingo with the letter ‘K’

And don’t forget about the big prizes for words with 12-13 letters or with 14+ letters.

Hope to see as many as 20 of you at the June 2022 meeting of the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club (MMMSSC).

Stay safe and healthy!

Evelyn and Yuki
MMMSSC Co-directors

Maliha’s Memorial Reminder

The day is getting closer to come together to celebrate the life of our dear friend Maliha.

When: June 5, 2022, Sunday, 11:00 am

We will share our loving memories of her and exchange pleasantries over lunch provided by our gracious host Arshud.

After lunch, we will play 2 games, namely, trivia and left-center-right.

Please be sure to bring the following:
1. your button pin of Maliha

2. your thinking cap for the trivia game (winner gets a $20 Applebee’s gift card)

3. three $1 bills for the left-center-right game

4. your face mask

So far, the following have RSVPed to participate in our celebration:
1. Joanie

2. David

3. Lynn

4. Najat

5. Yuki

6. Amnon

7. Anthea

8. Don

9. Gretchen

10. Fern

11. Gary

12. Adrienne

13. Renee

Anyone else who would like to join us is most welcome (on the presumption that you have been fully vaccinated). Please let me know by Wednesday, June 1st.

Stay safe and healthy.

See you soon.

Evelyn

Super Scrabble 051922 Results

The torch keeps getting passed on … this time, to Amnon and Anthea for their 3 for 3 wins. Yuki, on the other hand, has yet to be dethroned from her bingo queen title as she again played the most number of bingos with a whopping total of 16 this month. No mean feats for them but all they get are bragging rights, just like their predecessors. However, each one of them managed to grab a real prize for the categories shown below.

Category					Word		Points	Winner
Most letters from ‘CINCO DE MAYO’					METANOIA		74	Yuki Loritz
Most letters from ‘MOTHERS’					MOTHS		80	Najat Reikes
Most letters from ‘MEMORIAL’					BROMAL		38	Amnon Meyers
High non-bingo					QUAFF		92	Renee Kahn
High bingo with the letter ‘H’					FLASHES		103	Gretchen Cowan
Low bingo with the letter ‘H’					HOTTIES		64	Anthea Palmos

So that each one gets a fair chance of winning a prize, no player can have 2 prizes from the above categories. For example, Amnon scored the highest for the category ‘High bingo with the letter H’ playing HORIZONS with big 146 points, but he already got the prize for “Most letters from MEMORIAL”. Another example, Najat played the second high-scoring bingo with the letter H for CHANTER with 105 points, but she had already won the prize for “Most letters from MOTHERS”.

Below are the stats for the month and year-to-date. Take note that phony bingos, challenged or not, were excluded from the bingo stats.

May 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Alan Stern	3	0	0	8	2.7	935	853	894	104	73	84
Amnon Meyers	3	3	100	12	4.0	1044	959	993	146	67	85
Anthea Palmos	3	3	100	8	2.7	947	836	889	86	60	73
David Poder	3	1	33	7	2.3	1032	735	892	98	69	87
Fern Trausch	3	1	33	4	1.3	847	761	806	80	68	74
Gretchen Cowan	3	2	67	9	3.0	931	852	885	103	68	83
Lynn Gunn	3	2	67	7	2.3	883	858	870	89	60	73
Najat Reikes	3	1	33	7	2.3	1008	835	907	105	73	82
Renee Kahn	3	0	0	2	0.7	811	766	790	76	66	71
Yukiko Loritz	3	2	67	16	5.3	1114	953	1042	104	70	81

Year-to-Date 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Alan Stern	6	0	0	13	2.2	935	823	866	104	64	79
Amnon Meyers	9	7	78	37	4.1	1044	905	960	146	58	79
Anthea Palmos	9	7	78	23	2.6	947	711	853	86	60	74
David Poder	9	2	22	12	1.3	1078	735	932	102	69	87
Don Platt	6	0	0	8	1.3	866	683	750	108	68	81
Evelyn Davis	6	3	50	20	3.3	1061	869	942	138	62	82
Fern Trausch	9	4	44	15	1.7	1010	726	827	92	65	76
Gretchen Cowan	3	2	67	9	3.0	931	852	885	103	68	83
Joel Elkins	6	4	67	13	2.2	1033	861	976	107	65	85
Lynn Gunn	9	5	56	19	2.1	981	726	868	97	60	78
Najat Reikes	9	4	44	22	2.4	1039	765	893	140	61	80
Nancy Douglas	3	1	33	6	2.0	786	732	767	82	70	77
Renee Kahn	3	0	0	2	0.7	811	766	790	76	66	71
Rick Duncan	6	5	83	11	1.8	975	865	913	106	68	80
Yukiko Loritz	9	7	78	41	4.6	1114	953	1043	104	64	79

As announced last Thursday, new prizes are being awarded based on the individual player’s year-to-date (YTD) average bingo score. Beginning next month, every player who is present during a super scrabble game session of the MMMSSC will receive a cash prize in accordance with the following criteria:

YTD average bingo score (current) Prize

< 80 $1
80 – 90 $2

> 90 $3

Reminder: May Super Scrabble Club Meeting

Hello, Super Scrabblers!

This is just a reminder of our Super Scrabble club meeting next week. If anyone else would like to attend, please let us know ASAP. Below is the list of people who said they are coming.
Yuki
Evelyn
Lynn
Najat
David Poder
Renee
Don
Fern
Alan

When: Thursday, May 19, 2022, 11:00 AM

Where: Applebee’s Restaurant, Santa Ana Main Place Mall, 2nd floor, Suite 868

2800 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

Double the prizes, double the fun; right? In addition to the 3 prizes for category words, there will be another 3 prizes to be revealed on the day of the games.

And don’t forget about the big prizes for words with 12-13 letters or with 14+ letters.

Criteria for the category words are as follows:

Game 1 – Most letters from “CINCO DE MAYO”

Game 2 – Most letters from “MOTHERS”

Game 3 – Most letters from “MEMORIAL”

As always, stay safe and healthy!

Evelyn and Yuki
MMMSSC Co-directors

May Super Scrabble Club meeting

Hello, Super Scrabblers!

If you have had your third vaccination, please sign up no later than May 12thto play 3 fun games:

When: Thursday, May 19, 2022, 11:00 AM

Where: Applebee’s Restaurant, Santa Ana Main Place Mall, 2nd floor, Suite 868

2800 N Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92705

Double the prizes, double the fun; right? In addition to the 3 prizes for category words, there will be another 3 prizes to be revealed on the day of the games.

And don’t forget about the big prizes for words with 12-13 letters or with 14+ letters.

Criteria for the category words are as follows:

Game 1 – Most letters from "CINCO DE MAYO"

Game 2 – Most letters from "MOTHERS"

Game 3 – Most letters from "MEMORIAL"

Hope to see as many as 20 of you at the May 2022 meeting of the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club (MMMSSC).

As always, stay safe and healthy!

Evelyn and Yuki
MMMSSC Co-directors

Super Scrabble 042122_Results

Last Thursday, the Maliha Mendoza Mahmood Super Scrabble Club co-directors had some strange stroke of luck! Case in point — In their games, Yuki and Evelyn went 3 for 3 and scored the highest and second highest average with 1,060 and 1,011, respectively. Additionally, Yuki played the most bingos at 14 and Evelyn posted the highest scoring bingo with ZODIACS at 138. Wait, there’s more … Yuki won the prize for high non-bingo playing QUALE for 86 points and Evelyn won the prize for the high bingo with the letter ‘F’ playing INFIELD for 90 points. Hmmm …

Of course, the following players are also worth mentioning for winning the other category word prizes.

Winner	Category			Word		Points
Najat Reikes	Most letters from ‘EASTER’			REALISES		66
Don Platt	Pertaining to ‘TAXES’			DREADING		74
Amnon Meyers	Most letters from ‘PASSOVER’			ARSINES		77
Lynn Gunn	Low bingo with the letter ‘F’			GOLFERS		69

Shout-out to Nancy Douglas for playing with us last Thursday. She’s enjoying her time in Wisconsin but we’d be delighted to have her visit us again.

Below are the stats for the month and year-to-date. Take note that phony bingos, challenged or not, were excluded from the bingo stats.

April 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Amnon Meyers	3	2	67	13	4.3	984	905	948	83	58	74
Anthea Palmos	3	2	67	5	1.7	838	711	782	80	64	75
David Poder	3	0	0	0	0.0	1001	800	921	0	0	0
Don Platt	3	0	0	5	1.7	774	705	744	108	68	84
Evelyn Davis	3	3	100	11	3.7	1061	927	1011	138	64	85
Fern Trausch	3	1	33	3	1.0	867	726	790	85	71	78
Joel Elkins	3	1	33	6	2.0	1033	861	951	105	65	83
Lynn Gunn	3	2	67	7	2.3	981	854	902	97	69	85
Najat Reikes	3	1	33	9	3.0	875	831	856	94	65	76
Nancy Douglas	3	1	33	6	2.0	786	732	767	82	70	77
Rick Duncan	3	2	67	6	2.0	975	865	917	90	72	80
Yukiko Loritz	3	3	100	14	4.7	1107	1025	1060	92	71	82

Year-to-Date 2022
Name	Games	Wins		Bingos		Game Score			Bingo Score
	Total	Total	%	Total	Average	High	Low	Average	High	Low	Average
Alan Stern	3	0	0	5	1.7	849	823	838	85	64	71
Amnon Meyers	6	4	67	25	4.2	984	905	943	90	58	75
Anthea Palmos	6	4	67	15	2.5	898	711	836	81	64	75
David Poder	6	1	17	5	0.8	1078	800	952	102	72	86
Don Platt	6	0	0	8	1.3	866	683	750	108	68	81
Evelyn Davis	6	3	50	20	3.3	1061	869	942	138	62	82
Fern Trausch	6	3	50	11	1.8	1010	726	837	92	65	76
Joel Elkins	6	4	67	13	2.2	1033	861	976	107	65	85
Lynn Gunn	6	3	50	12	2.0	981	726	867	97	68	81
Najat Reikes	6	3	50	15	2.5	1039	765	887	140	61	79
Nancy Douglas	3	1	33	6	2.0	786	732	767	82	70	77
Rick Duncan	6	5	83	11	1.8	975	865	913	106	68	80
Yukiko Loritz	6	5	83	25	4.2	1107	991	1044	92	64	79

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