Anatomy of a losing scrabble game

[erinwrites]

Originally published at erin-go-blog!. You can comment here or there.

Your entire rack for the entire game has consisted of one-point letters, except for one G (2 points) and one C (3 points)

Your opponent plays both a Z and a J in the first three (or so) rounds, both on multiple word or letter scores.

Your opponent plays a word using ALL of his tiles on a triple-word score.

You now have an entire rack of nothing but vowels.

Seriously? Is this fair??

Message from said opponent:

amazing game - not my usual luck

1) I’ve never had a word that used my whole tray of letters (50 point bonus)
2) I seldom get a triple word on a long word
3) but 2 triple words? lucky me

Lucky him, indeed.