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Congrats to a super-smart QRANK: TT Edition player whose username is ThaddeusScott: He scored 99,711 points in February — more than 3,000 points better than the second-place finisher, KentWillis, who put up 96,505 points.

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Congrats to a super-smart QRANK: TT Edition player whose username is ThaddeusScott: He scored 99,711 points in February — more than 3,000 points better than the second-place finisher, KentWillis, who put up 96,505 points. The rest of the top five: schatzie, 95,296; Courtney Goodings, 86,212; and bhadley, 84347.

Thaddeus Scott's prize, you'll recall, is dinner for two at Second Bar + Kitchen, the swanky new restaurant on the ground floor of the Austonian at the corner of 2nd and Congress in downtown Austin. (Perhaps you're thinking: Can I be his date? Hey, this isn't eHarmony.)

Our March game is already going, and we've just added our second monthly prize: a premier online membership from Andrew Harper, the exclusive, high-end travel club, plus a hard copy of the Andrew Harper Collection and a $250 travel voucher.

In case I haven't said it before, Trib employees and their family members are ineligible to win — so never mind the fact that, ahem, I'm currently in first second place. My prize is the warm-and-fuzzy feeling we get from increasing the news literacy of all Trib readers...

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