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Scrabble Challenge #13: Can You Find the Best Halloween Bingo Play, Plus a 765-Point Killer?
Halloween is just a few days away, and since I've been churning out the creepy Bingo of the Days for everyone the past few weeks, it seems fitting to do a puzzle based on them.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: CARRION
CARRION n pl. -S dead and putrefying flesh 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: CREMAINS
CREMAINS n/pl the ashes of a cremated body 62 points (12 points without the bingo)
News: Scrabble Beats Words with Friends to NOOK Color
Electronic Arts (EA) and Hasbro have always been a little slow at adapting Scrabble for the cyber culture. They failed to beat Scrabulous to the Facebook market by a whole year, but managed to save face by targeting the mobile market, specifically iPhone and iPod touch, making Scrabble one of the very first mobile apps in the iTunes App Store.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: REVENANT
REVENANT n pl. -S one that returns 61 points (11 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: BURKITE
BURKITE n pl. -S a burker 63 points (13 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: CUCURBIT
CUCURBIT n pl. -S a gourd 64 points (14 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo Weekly Roundup: Coxswain, Hexerei and Mimesis
Halloween will be here in just over a week, which means next week these Scrabble Bingo of the Days will become more horrific. This week, there's just a few relevant Halloween seven-letter words for your Scrabble vocabulary, referencing witchcraft and one of the eeriest horror movies of all time, The Thing (not this year's version).
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: UTILIDOR
UTILIDOR n pl. -S an insulated system of pipes for use in arctic regions 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: MIMESIS
MIMESIS n pl. -MESISES or -MESES mimicry MIMETIC adj 61 points (11 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Challenge #12: Can You Unscramble the Derivative Words?
Last week's challenge brought up a good question (thanks Lisa) regarding the functionality of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, both online and in print form. The word TACTICAL was the answer to the first puzzle in that challenge, but when you search for the word directly in the print version, it can't be found. Likewise, when you search the online dictionary on Hasbro's site, you won't find it either. Go ahead, try it. You won't find it looking for TACTICAL specifically.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: PLASTRUM
PLASTRUM n pl. -S plastron 62 points (12 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: HEXEREI
HEXEREI n pl. -S witchcraft 67 points (17 points without the bingo)
News: Mugshots of the World's Best Scrabble Players
Mugshots aren't just for criminals anymore. In the world of competitive Scrabble, no one's safe from the lens of photojournalist Roger Cullman. For the last couple years, Cullman has been hitting up the Scrabble circuit with hopes of immortalizing some of the world's best Scrabble players in headshot pictures of them holding racks with their surnames spelled out in Scrabble tiles.
News: Where's the G? Player Accused of Cheating in World Scrabble Championship
Cheating. It happens everywhere. From scientists faking human ears on mice, to Hollywood thirty-somethings cheating on their quadragenarian wives, to chess players accusing supercomputers of fraud. There's no game or profession out there that doesn't have a cheater or two, but the bigger nuisance is probably those people who accuse others of cheating.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: FOVEOLET
FOVEOLET n pl. -S a foveola 64 points (14 points without the bingo)
News: Nigel Richards Wins $20,000, Becomes First Ever Two-Time World Scrabble Champion
Last weekend the 2011 World Scrabble Championship was held at the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland. There were 106 players competing from 44 countries for the $20,000 first place prize and title of World Scrabble Champion.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: COXSWAIN
COXSWAIN v -ED, -ING, -S to direct (a crew) as coxwain 70 points (20 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo Weekly Roundup: Guisard, Reaphook and Veronica
There's only a few week left until costumes and candy take over the streets, which means they'll be more and more seven-letter words in the Scrabble Bingo of the Days that relate to the Fall season, horror movies, and of course… Halloween. Below you'll find bingo words relevant such films as Halloween, Children of the Corn and The Wicker Man.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: ZUGZWANG
ZUGZWANG n pl. -S a situation in chess that forces a disadvantageous move 81 points (31 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: COLOSSUS
COLOSSUS n pl. COLOSSUSES or COLOSSI a gigantic statue 60 points (10 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Challenge #11: Would You Pass Up the Opening Move?
In these weekly Scrabble Challenges, so far we've covered two-letter words, double bingos, high scoring moves, triple-triples, last moves, parallel plays, phoneys and opening moves. For this week's puzzle, we're revisiting the strategy for opening moves.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: BEJABERS
BEJABERS interj bejesus (used as a mild oath) 69 points (19 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: EUCAINE
EUCAINE n pl. -S an anesthetic 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: REAPHOOK
REAPHOOK n pl. -S an implement used in reaping 67 points (17 points without the bingo)
The Beautiful Word: A Beastly Closeup on Scrabble Art from Ogilvy & Mather
Ogilvy & Mather are no amateurs when it comes to Scrabble. They may not play the game, but they sure know how to promote it. The prestigious advertising and marketing agency has created several video commercials for Mattel, not to mention over 60 amazing print adverts that are funny, hip and sometimes salaciously naughty.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: VERONICA
VERONICA n pl. -S a handkerchief bearing the image of Christ's face 63 points (13 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: GUISARD
GUISARD n pl. -S a masker 59 points (9 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo Weekly Roundup: Zebrass, Rhyolite and Bovinity
Improve your bingo skills with a roundup of this week's Scrabble Bingo of the Days. What exactly is a bingo? It's when a player empties his or her rack in one turn, placing all seven of their letters on the board to create a word that's at least seven letters long.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: APOLOGUE
APOLOGUE n pl. -S an allegory 61 points (11 points without the bingo)
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: PHONEYS
PHONEYS 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Definition: to phony, i.e. alters so as to make appear genuine [v]
News: OMG, Scrabble Trickster Lets Players Use Textspeak… What's Next?
Scrabble is a game of skill for logophiles who love a good mental challenge, but for those people who play board games that aren't as equally fascinated with the cultured eccentricity of the English language, there's something called Scrabble Trickster, a variant that allows proper nouns in addition to everything already in Scrabble dictionaries.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: HOOSGOW
HOOSGOW 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Definition: a jail [n]
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: LEVOGYRE
LEVOGYRE 65 points (15 points without the bingo) Definition: turning toward the left [adj]
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: ZEBRASS
ZEBRASS 68 points (18 points without the bingo) Definition: the offspring of a zebra and an ass [n]
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: BOVINITY
BOVINITY 66 points (16 points without the bingo) Definition: the state of being a bovine [n]
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: RHYOLITE
RHYOLITE 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Definition: a volcanic rock [n]
Scrabble Bingo Weekly Roundup: Shlemiels, Cynosures and Yanquis
Bingo! No, this isn't the game where balls fly around in machines and players dab their cards with daubers. In a game of Scrabble, bingo refers to the bonus a player receives when emptying their rack in one turn, which gets them an extra 50 points on top of whatever their play was. Even if you had two blanks on your rack and didn't utilize any premium squares on the board, you'd still have an impressive 56-point turn (at least) by using all 7 of your letters.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: JUMBUCK
JUMBUCK 74 points (24 points without the bingo) Definition: a sheep [n]
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: CYNOSURE
CYNOSURE 63 points (13 points without the bingo) Definition: a center of attraction [n]