In my previous 'photo-op' - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20634975/ - I was seen displaying the prize I had won at the May 11th meeting of Scrabble Club 276: a jigsaw puzzle with the image of a Norman Rockwell print (in honor of "Jigsaw Puzzle Day"). But some of you are probably wondering, "how did he win it?"; Well, here's how...

At each weekly meeting, three games are played among the attending members, and the prize is usually given out during the first two games (for coming up with high-scoring words starting with a particular letter, or highest-winning scores, just to give two examples). In the case of "Jigsaw Puzzle Day", club president Sandee Bloom would give out the prize to the player whose rack of lettered tiles contains all consonants...

Now, speaking as the 'poster child' for Murphy's Law, there is nothing worse than starting off a game of Scrabble with a rack full of nothing but vowels (mostly Es and Is), which has happened to me on numerous occasions. At this specific meeting, I had six consonants and one vowel on my rack for Game One. My opponent went first and played her word; then, I'd played my first word, using one consonant and my lone vowel. After that, I reached into the sack full of tiles, to take out my next two letters...

I'd turned to Sandee - who was playing her own game at the front of the room - and asked her, "Is the prize supposed to go to the player who has all consonants on his or her rack?" and she said, "Yes"...

I'd turned my rack towards her and said, "Bingo!"

If you were outside of said room, you could hear the collective moans from all of the other players at that one moment!

Sandee stopped her game, grabbed her digital camera, rushed over to my table, and took a picture of my rack with seven different letters (all consonants) for verification. She would later post this picture in her Scrabble Club 276 newsletter (which I'd received in my Yahoo! inbox, earlier this month).

Hopefully, I'll try to return to posting my 'photo-ops' on "Throwback Thursdays" (instead of a day or two later) in the future...