PRE(WARMS) fit making (A)R and (R)E scoring 49 points and keeping AENS, which has a positive value worth around 15 points more than using all your tiles and drawing 7 new and random letters. PANEERS scored 64, so that means that if we do the math, PREWARMS has an equal value to PANEERS. The difference between the two plays is mainly that after Chloe plays PANEERS, she opens the middle left triple word score, increasing my average score by a significant margin over playing PRE(WARMS). Also, she retains the S to potentially play something with S(AE) later on, which instead of waiting, she did immediately, and evidently prematurely. Oftentimes, retaining your S for around a 10-point sacrifice is worth doing, but it's rare that you would forgo a bingo score to keep an S.
Horizontally is the way you're supposed to open. I'm pretty sure it's in the rules, somewhere
I appreciate your recent villain arc ;)
What was the - warms word and why would it have been better than a bingo?
PRE(WARMS) fit making (A)R and (R)E scoring 49 points and keeping AENS, which has a positive value worth around 15 points more than using all your tiles and drawing 7 new and random letters. PANEERS scored 64, so that means that if we do the math, PREWARMS has an equal value to PANEERS. The difference between the two plays is mainly that after Chloe plays PANEERS, she opens the middle left triple word score, increasing my average score by a significant margin over playing PRE(WARMS). Also, she retains the S to potentially play something with S(AE) later on, which instead of waiting, she did immediately, and evidently prematurely.
Oftentimes, retaining your S for around a 10-point sacrifice is worth doing, but it's rare that you would forgo a bingo score to keep an S.