{"id":6447,"date":"2017-01-02T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?page_id=6447"},"modified":"2017-02-19T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T13:38:20","slug":"the-great-bananagrams-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?page_id=6447","title":{"rendered":"The Great Bananagrams Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started the Great <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bananagrams\" target=\"_blank\">Bananagrams<\/a> Challenge on New Year&#8217;s Day.  Continuing with our tradition we&#8217;ll play until the first day of Spring (March 20, 2017) and the winner will get to name their prize.<\/p>\n<p>Bananagrams, if you&#8217;re not familiar with it (I&#8217;d never played it before yesterday) is like Scrabble, except you each make your own word grid.  You don&#8217;t play on anyone else&#8217;s words.  Whoever plays all their tiles first wins.<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Debbie<\/th>\n<th>Chuck<\/th>\n<th>Comments<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/01\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>A practice run, and we both didn&#8217;t know what we were doing.  We did learn that neither &#8216;pithe&#8217; nor &#8216;cuy&#8217; are words.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/02\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Chuck jumps out to a quick lead!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/03\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Stalemate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/04\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Another stalemate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/04\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bananas!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/07\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bananas!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/08\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/09\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/10\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Tied \ud83d\ude41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/14\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>After few nights off Debbie comes back, pulling out a win by spelling &#8216;fox&#8217; late in the game to use an &#8216;x&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/16\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Another tie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/17\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/18\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/22\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Bananas!&#8221; &#8220;You suck!&#8221;  That&#8217;s how it goes down.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/22\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>&#8220;Bananas!&#8221; &#8220;I hate you!&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/25\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/30\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Filthy Q&#8217;s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01\/31\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Again?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/01\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>Three in a row.  Time to staunch the bleeding.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/06\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Chuck is great!  Let&#8217;s feed him chocolate cake!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/08\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bananas! Chuck is great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/13\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bananas! Chuck is great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/15\/2017<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Bananas! Chuck is great!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/17\/2017<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>The downward slide to shame and humiliation starts here.\/td><br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02\/18\/2017<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>I spelled &#8216;fart&#8217;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<tfoot>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align:center;\">Totals<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>6<\/th>\n<th>14<\/th>\n<th><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started the Great Bananagrams Challenge on New Year&#8217;s Day. 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