Bingos
No Offense, but... ...ALLOWABLE OFFENSIVE WORDS. Just sayin'...!
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New(ish) Surprise! Vowels Digraphs Consonants PRE-
Light SSSSSSSticky Frankenword Capitals -S Archaic
Spelling Doubles Plurals CAUTION! Silent Hold Belief
Money Do -ER Plants Animals Life Body Science
Final Good Bad Numbers Foreign Geography
Alternating UN- Clothing Food Fighting Crowd Direction
Teams Time Learning Measure Color Movement States
Half Buildings Sound Words People Sports Tools
Love Law Transport Form History Airports Soft C / G
Furniture Cleanliness Switchable -YS Mnemonic Missing?
Picture Offensive Matter RE- Duplicates Blank(s)
Names Humor Smell Relatives Odd Leisure Begin
Questions Triple-Triple Power Syl-la-bles Order Prefix
Roots Suffix Compound Ear Combination Hooks
Adjectives Incomparable Adverbs Speech Nouns Verbs
Flight of Imagination – AIRPORT CODE LETTERS in consecutive order
Play It By Ear – Trickiest SOUND / LETTER COMBOS to unscramble
Sum of the Parts – tricky alphagrams (4+ SYL-LA-BLES distinct vowel sounds)
Plays Well With Others – Top 1000 MOST USEFUL TO KNOW TO WIN
Down to a Science – lay down bingos about NATURAL SCIENCE
Plant a Seed... ...in your mind about the PLANT KINGDOM:
Body Language – body of info on CONDITIONS, DISEASES, PROCESSES
Creature Comforts – get scoring comfort from the ANIMAL KINGDOM:
Birds 7s Fish 7s Invertebrates 7s Mammals 7s
Measure Your Words – ways to measure: SIZE, AMOUNT, DEGREE, EXTENT
Compound Interest – MOST COMMON COMPOUND WORDS, interesting!
AIR- BACK- BED- BLOW- BLUE- BULL-
DOWN- EAR- EYE- FIRE- FISH- FLY-
HOME- HOT- LAND- LONG- MOON- NEW-
NUT- PIN- PLAY- RED- SAND- SEA-
– – – – – – –
-BACK -BALL -BIRD -BOAT -BOOK -BOX
-FOLD -HEAD -HOUSE -LAND -LINE -LOCK
All's Well That Ends Well – MOST COMMON SUFFIXES
suffixes are put after a root word to add information
-ATE -ATION -CIDE -DOM -ED [adj] -EE
-FUL -FY -HOOD -IA -IC -IES [noun]
-IES [verb] -ILE -INE -ING [adj] -ING [noun]
-ION -ISE -ISH -ISM -IST -ITE -ITIS
-ITY -IUM -IVE -IZE -LESS -LIKE
-LOGY -LY -MATA -MENT -NESS -OID
Get on Board – TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL to run on your board
XCSSV CNSNNTS? – RaCK WiTH eXCeSSiVe CoNSoNaNTS? HMMM...
Fun, Funner, Funnest – comparative -ER / superlative -EST ADJECTIVES
Beyond Comparison – ADJECTIVES THAT DON'T COMPARE – frabjous!
A bingo browser's paradise!
Thematic ~ Surprising ~ Tricky
Browse themes to expand your bingo horizons
compiled by Jacob Cohen, Asheville Scrabble Club
Foreign Intelligence – IMPORTED WORDS with EXOTIC SPELLINGS
unusual letter / sound patterns make tricky alphagrams to anagram
Arabic French German Greek Hindi / Sanskrit
Double Letter Score – TRICKY PAIRS (AA, HH, II, KK, UU, VV, WW, XX, YY)
Sticky Bingos – CAN'T DROP LAST LETTERS (-S, -D, -R, -E, -N, -X, -T)
To BE- or not to BE- – Meseems, ARCHAIC WORDS couldst bethump!
Frankenword – monster bingos ASSEMBLED FROM PARTS OF WORDS
Super -S – UNUSUAL BACK -S HOOKS (-ING nouns & other odd -S)
Capital Offense – usually capitalized, but, OK due to other meanings / usage
The Whys? & Wherefores? – play ADVERBS expertly and evermore
Mountains of Knowledge – scrabble around the GEOGRAPHIC WORLD
Fitting Words – fit in your game: CLOTHES, FASHION, WEARABLES
Fighting Words – win games with FIGHTING, WEAPONS, ARMOR, WAR
What's Up, Doc? – documenting DIRECTION, LOCATION, POSITION
Learn Lingo for Your Bingo – learn about KNOWLEDGE & EDUCATION
A Moveable Feast – winning moves: MOVEMENT, IDLENESS, STOPPAGE
Like a Ton of Bricks – build wins with BUILDINGS & CONSTRUCTION
Is Something Missing?... ...no, just UNUSUAL LETTER PATTERNS
Picture This – alphagrams with MEMORABLE RELATED DEFINITIONS
Look Both Ways – part of bingo is SWITCHABLE TO FRONT OR BACK
A Part to Play – pic (left) shows LESS OFTEN USED PARTS OF SPEECH
That's Entertainment! – that's ENTERTAINMENT, LEISURE bingos
All 7s (25,473) & 8s (31,736) sorted into each relevant theme below
Have One Too Many? – still many bingos even with DUPLICATE TILES
The Luck of the Draw – Top 1000 MOST LIKELY BINGOS – know these
Stretch of Imagination – EXTENSIONS TO TWS from opening plays
Tripl3 - Tripl3 - Thr3at – most likely + 1 or 2 tiles on board = TWS – TWS
Remember Me – mnemonic "CATNIP HOLDERS" uses bingo-friendliest letters
Three's a Crowd – THREE OF THE SAME LETTER? Crowds of bingos, tho
Once in a Blue Moon – Bottom 1000 LEAST LIKELY BINGOS – just in case!
Go Down in History – PAST PEOPLE / THINGS go down on board now
Home Sweet Home – sweet plays about FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS
Questionable Plays? – WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHICH in words
Alternating Current – letter ALTERNATINGLY REPEATS (at least 3 times)
Quick links or scroll down for theme details
New(ish) Surprise! Vowels Digraphs Consonants PRE-
Light SSSSSSSticky Frankenword Capitals -S Archaic
Spelling Doubles Plurals CAUTION! Silent Hold Belief
Money Do -ER Plants Animals Life Body Science
Final Good Bad Numbers Foreign Geography
Alternating UN- Clothing Food Fighting Crowd Direction
Teams Time Learning Measure Color Movement States
Half Buildings Sound Words People Sports Tools
Love Law Transport Form History Airports Soft C / G
Furniture Cleanliness Switchable -YS Mnemonic Missing?
Picture Offensive Matter RE- Duplicates Blank(s)
Names Humor Smell Relatives Odd Leisure Begin
Questions Triple-Triple Power Syl-la-bles Order Prefix
Roots Suffix Compound Ear Combination Hooks
Adjectives Incomparable Adverbs Speech Nouns Verbs
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Updated to NWL23
Updated to NWL23
HAIRED + 1 tile
DENTURE + 1 tile
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