No Offense, but...  ...ALLOWABLE OFFENSIVE  WORDS. Just sayin'...!

Offensive 7s                              Offensive 8s+

Numbers Game –  bingos with DEFINITIONS RELATED TO NUMBERS

7 letters     0+     1     2     3+     #          8 letters   0+     1     2     3+     #

To Begin With... easy to miss (consonants, typically), but, BEGIN:   A, E, I, O, U

7s     A       E       I       O       U                  8s     A       E       I       O       U

Made to Order – 4 LETTERS IN ALPHABETIC ORDER can be reordered

Order 7s                              Order 8s

It's About Time! – take time to learn about TIME, SEQUENCE, HISTORY

Time 7s                                      Time 8s

Be A Team Player – play INITIALS OF COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

Teams 7s                                      Teams 8s

Fill in the Blank(s) – to make these bingos you need 1 OR 2 BLANKS

Blanks 7s                                        Blanks 8s

In So Many Words – MOST ANAGRAMS from the most useful letters

7s # of anagrams =      9         8         7         6         5         4         3

2 anagrams - alphagram starts with:   AA ~ AC     AD ~ AH     AI ~ DE     DF ~ OP

8s # of anagrams =      9         7         6         5         4         3

2 anagrams - alphagram starts with:   AA ~ AC     AD ~ AH     AI ~ DE     DF ~ NO

Quick links or scroll up 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

Value          Extensions          Anagrams          Likeliest          Unlikeliest

Winningest          ALL

Flight of Imagination –  AIRPORT CODE LETTERS in consecutive order

Airport Codes 7s                                    Airport Codes 8s

Play It By Ear – Trickiest SOUND / LETTER COMBOS to unscramble

Play It By Ear 7s                               Play It By Ear 8s

Sum of the Parts – tricky alphagrams (4+ SYL-LA-BLES distinct vowel sounds)

Syl-la-bles 7s                              Syl-la-bles 8s

Plays Well With Others – Top 1000 MOST USEFUL TO KNOW TO WIN

Top 1000 Winningest 7s                   Top 1000 Winningest 8s

Put Down Roots – MOST COMMON WORD ROOTS

word roots convey a particular description, thought, or meaning

  AB          ACT          AD          AER          APO          AQUA          ARCH

AUD          AUTO          BIO          CEDE          CEPT          CISE         CIT

CLAIM          CYCL          DENT          DIC          DUC          FIC          FIX

FLEX          FLU          FORC          FORM          GAM          GRAD

GRAPH          HEX          HYDR          IN          INTER          JECT

  JOIN          JUR          LAV          LOC          LOG          LUC          LUD

MAL          MAN          MER          MISS          MOB          NEG          NEO

NEUR          NOM          NON          OB          OCT          PAN          PARA

PED          PEL          PEND          PER          PERI          PHAN          PHON

  PLY          PON          PORT          PRIN          PRO          PUT          QUAD

QUINT          QUIR          SALV          SECT          SED          SEN

SENT          SERV          SIGN          SIST          SOLV          SPEC

SPIR          SYN          TACT          TAIN          TECT          TELE          TEND

TERR          TEST          TOR          TRACT          TYP          UNI

VAC          VALE          VEN          VER          VERT          VICT          VID

VIV          VOC          VOLV          ZO

Down to a Science – lay down bingos about NATURAL SCIENCE

Biology 7s         Chemistry 7s          Earth 7s          Physics 7s

Biology 8s         Chemistry 8s          Earth 8s          Physics 8s

Plant a Seed...   ...in your mind about the PLANT KINGDOM:

Conifers          Ferns          Flowers 7s          Flowers 8s

Mosses / Worts

Body Language – body of info on CONDITIONS, DISEASES, PROCESSES

   Physical 7s          Mental 7s         Physical 8s          Mental 8s

A Play on Words – play LANGUAGE, READING, WRITING, SYMBOLS

Words 7s                                  Words 8s

Creature Comforts – get scoring comfort from the ANIMAL KINGDOM:

Birds 7s         Fish 7s         Invertebrates 7s          Mammals 7s

Birds 8s         Fish 8s         Invertebrates 8s          Mammals 8s

Amphibians          Reptiles

Measure Your Words – ways to measure: SIZE, AMOUNT, DEGREE, EXTENT

Measure 7s                                   Measure 8s

The Odd Couple – ODD LETTER PAIRS / PLACE in transliterated words

7s     Start-    -Contain-    -End       ~       8s     Start-    -Contain-    -End

That's All Folks! – that's right, folks, ALL BINGOS STARTING A ~ Z

ALL 7s starting with:

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

ALL 8s starting with:

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

Where The Action Is – VERBS: conveys action, occurrence, being

Verbs 7s

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

Verbs 8s

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

All Things Considered – NOUNS: any class of people, places, things

Nouns 7s

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

Nouns 8s

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

Combination unLock – unlock bingos from COMMON LETTER COMBOS

2-letter:     BL7s          BL8s          CH7s          CH8s          CK7s          CK8s

CL          CT          DG          DL          DR          FL          FR          FT

GH          GL          GN          GR          KL          KN          LD

LF          LG           LK          LM          LP          LS7s          LS8s          LT

LV          MB          MP          NC          ND7s          ND8s          NG7s

NG8s          NK          NS7s          NS8s          NT7s          NT8s          PH

PL          PR7s          PR8s          PS          PT          RB          RC          RD

RF          RG          RK          RL          RM          RN          RP          RS7s

RS8s          RT          RV          SC          SH7s          SH8s          SL          SM

SN         SP          ST7s          ST8s          SW          TH7s          TH8S

TL          TR7s          TR8s          TW          WH          WL          WN          WR

3-letter:     CHR          CKL          GHT          LCH          LTH          NCH

NDL          NGL          NKL          NTH          RCH          RDL

RGL          RST          RTH          SCH          SCR          SHR          SPL

SPR          STR          TCH          THR

Compound Interest – MOST COMMON COMPOUND WORDS, interesting!

AIR-          BACK-          BED-          BLOW-          BLUE-          BULL-

CAT-          COW-          CUT-          DAY-          DOG-

DOWN-          EAR-          EYE-          FIRE-          FISH-          FLY-

FOOT-          HAND-          HARD-          HEAD-          HIGH-

HOME-          HOT-          LAND-          LONG-          MOON-          NEW-

NUT-          PIN-          PLAY-          RED-          SAND-          SEA-

SIDE-          SKY-          SUN-          WIND-          WORK-

–   –   –   –  –   –   –

-BACK          -BALL          -BIRD          -BOAT          -BOOK          -BOX

-BOY          -DOWN          -EYE          -FISH          -FLY

-FOLD          -HEAD          -HOUSE          -LAND          -LINE          -LOCK

-MAN          -MATE          -OFF          -OUT          -ROOM

-SIDE          -SKIN          -TAIL        -TIME          -UP          -WARE

-WAY          -WEED          -WOOD          -WORK          -WORM

-YARD

All's Well That Ends Well – MOST COMMON SUFFIXES

suffixes are put after a root word to add information

-ABLE          -ACY          -AGE          -AL          -AN          -ANCE

-ANCY          -ANT          -AR          -ARD          -ARY  

-ATE          -ATION          -CIDE          -DOM          -ED [adj]         -EE

-EN         -ER [verb]          -ERY          -ESS          -EST

-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

-ORY          -OUS          -OVER          -SHIP          -SOME

-STER          -TH          -TY          -TYPE          -URE          -WARD

-WISE          -Y

Get Off to a Flying Start – MOST COMMON PREFIXES

prefixes are put before a word root to add information

A-          ANTI-          BE-         BI-          CO-          DE-          DI-

DIS-          EC-          EM-          EN-          EPI-          EU-          EX-

FORE-          HYPO-          ISO-          MEGA-          MID-          MILLI-

MINI-          MIS-          MONO-          OUT-          OVER-          POLY-

POST-          PRE-          RE-          SEMI-          SUB-          SUPER-

SUR-          TRI-          UN-          UNDER-          UNI-         UP-

P-REST-O Bingo! – BACK / FRONT HOOKS magically increase scores

BACK HOOKS

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

FRONT HOOKS

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I          J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

Get on Board – TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL to run on your board

Transport 7s                                   Transport 8s

No Holds Barred – wrestle THINGS THAT HOLD or are BEING HELD

Hold 7s                                        Hold 8s

Believe it or Not – spirited bingos with BELIEF, RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY

Belief 7s                                       Belief 8s

Silence is Golden – not pronounced; these are SILENT CONSONANTS

Silent 7s                                  Silent 8s

XCSSV CNSNNTS? – RaCK WiTH eXCeSSiVe CoNSoNaNTS? HMMM...

CoNSoNaNTS 7s                              CoNSoNaNTS 8s

thrOw In thE vOwEl – don't throw in the towel when vOwEl-hEAvy

7s    5 vowels    4 vowels start    A ~ E     F ~ J     K ~ O      P ~T     U ~ Z

Dominant Vowels:     A     E     I     O     U          Strings of Vowels 7s

8s    6 vowels    5 vowels start    A ~ E     F ~ J     K ~ O      P ~T     U ~ Z

Dominant Vowels:     A     E     I     O     U          Strings of Vowels 8s

Fun, Funner, Funnest – comparative -ER / superlative -EST ADJECTIVES

Comparative 7s     Superlative 7s        Comparative 8s     Superlative 8s

Beyond Comparison – ADJECTIVES THAT DON'T COMPARE – frabjous!

Incomparable 7s                                Incomparable 8s

Bingos

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

Indigenous          Italian          Latin          Scottish          Spanish

Yiddish / Hebrew         Other Languages

CAUTION! – TRICKY PARTS OF SPEECH & "Do You Speak -ING-less?"  

A ~ E          F ~ J          K ~ O          P ~ T          U ~ Z

Double Letter Score – TRICKY PAIRS (AA, HH, II, KK, UU, VV, WW, XX, YY)

Double Letter 7s                              Double Letters 8s

Lay Your Life on the (Scrabble) Line – with OTHER KINGDOMS OF LIFE:

Bacteria                         Fungi                         Protists

Sticky Bingos – CAN'T DROP LAST LETTERS (-S, -D, -R, -E, -N, -X, -T)

SSSSSSSticky 7s                                   SSSSSSSSticky 8s

To BE- or not to BE- – Meseems, ARCHAIC WORDS couldst bethump!

Archaic 7s                                   Archaic 8s

Frankenword – monster bingos ASSEMBLED FROM PARTS OF WORDS

Frankenword 7s                              Frankenword 8s

Super -S – UNUSUAL BACK -S HOOKS (-ING nouns & other odd -S)

Unusual -S back hook 7s                               Unusual -S back hook 8s

Capital Offense – usually capitalized, but, OK due to other meanings / usage

Capital 7s                                   Capital 8s

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G B-ingoes – ALTERNATE SPELLINGS are challenge-safe

A ~ E          F ~ J         K ~ O          P ~ T          U ~ Z

Be a Do-ER – people / things that WORK / DO – ending -ER, -OR, etc.

Do-ER 7s                                        Do-ER 8s

Freedom of Speech – freely play SURPRISING PARTS OF SPEECH

A ~ E          F ~ J          K ~ O          P ~ T          U ~ Z

Living with Irregularity...   ...thrive in way IRREGULAR PLURALS formed

A ~ E          F ~ J          K ~ O          P ~ T          U ~ Z

The Whys? & Wherefores? – play ADVERBS expertly and evermore

Adverbs 7s                                  Adverbs 8s

UN- aware – be aware, learn UN- bingos – UNLEARN = UNWISDOM

UN- 7s                                        UN- 8s

I've Got a Good Feeling – good play: GOOD FEELINGS & BEHAVIOR

Good 7s                                        Good 8s

I've Got a Bad Feeling – more good plays: BAD FEELINGS & BEHAVIOR

Bad 7s                                        Bad 8s

Right on the Money – cash in with CURRENCY, FINANCE, BUSINESS

Money 7s                                        Money 8s

Food for Thought – Yum!, Think of playing worldwide FOOD & DRINK

Food 7s          Drink 7s          Food 8s          Drink 8s

Mountains of Knowledge – scrabble around the GEOGRAPHIC WORLD

Geography 7s                                   Geography 8s

Fitting Words – fit in your game: CLOTHES, FASHION, WEARABLES

Clothing 7s                                        Clothing 8s

Fighting Words – win games with FIGHTING, WEAPONS, ARMOR, WAR

Fighting 7s                                   Fighting 8s

What's Up, Doc? – documenting DIRECTION, LOCATION, POSITION

Direction 7s                                      Direction 8s

Learn Lingo for Your Bingo – learn about KNOWLEDGE & EDUCATION

Learning 7s                                   Learning 8s

With Flying Colors – fly to victory with COLOR LIGHT, & TONE

Color 7s                                 Color 8s

A Moveable Feast – winning moves: MOVEMENT, IDLENESS, STOPPAGE

Movement 7s                                Movement 8s

Like a Ton of Bricks – build wins with BUILDINGS & CONSTRUCTION

Buildings 7s                                  Buildings 8s

A Good Sport – your play's good with SPORTS, GAMES, RECREATION

Sports 7s                                   Sports 8s

People Power – REAL, MYTHIC, ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE power your game

People 7s                                   People 8s

A Sound Education – educate yourself on SOUND, MUSIC, QUIET

Sound 7s                                  Sound 8s

Right Tool for the Job – TOOLS & MACHINES work right for you

Tools 7s                                   Tools 8s

Word Judge – decisive plays with LAW, GOVERNMENT, POLITICS

Law 7s                                   Law 8s

Good Form – whatever the FORM, TYPE, KIND, SHAPE, or STYLE

Form 7s                                    Form 8s

Soft in the Head – SOFT C & G SOUNDS = tricky if thinking only hard C & G

Soft C 7s          Soft G 7s                   Soft C 8s          Soft G 8s

Is Something Missing?...   ...no, just UNUSUAL LETTER PATTERNS

Something Missing? 7s                        Something Missing? 8s

Picture This – alphagrams with MEMORABLE RELATED DEFINITIONS

Picture This 7s                         Picture This 8s

Look Both Ways – part of  bingo is SWITCHABLE TO FRONT OR BACK

Switchable 7s                         Switchable 8s

Why, Yes! – bingos that END IN -YS (an eminently curious combination)

-YS 7s                              -YS 8s

What's the Matter? – definitions suggestive of SOLID, LIQUID, GAS

Solid 7s                    Liquid 7s                    Gas 7s

Solid 8s                    Liquid 8s                    Gas 8s

Dirty Words & Clean Words – all the DIRT about CLEANLINESS

Dirty 7s          Clean 7s          Dirty 8s          Clean 8s

Play Something for Laughs – be tickled by HUMOR & FUN bingos

Humor 7s                                          Humor 8s

New [NWL23] & New(ish) [2014 to NWL23] + any front/back hook(s) & ANAGRAM(s)

A          B          C          D          E          F          G          H

I         J          K          L          M          N          O          P          Q

R          S          T          U          V          W          X          Y          Z

A Part to Play – pic (left) shows LESS OFTEN USED PARTS OF SPEECH

Infrequent Parts of Speech 7s               Infrequent Parts of Speech 8s

The Smell of Success – succeed with bingos on SMELL, AROMA, ODOR

Smell 7s                                         Smell 8s

More Power to You – POWER TILES J, Q, X, Z  at bingo start, inside, end

J 7s     Q 7s     X 7s     Z 7s          J 8s     Q 8s     X 8s     Z 8s

s EE ing   d OU ble – tricky to see in alphagram: VOWEL DIGRAPHS

7s             AA   AE   AI   AO   AU  ~   EA   EE   EI   EO   EU

IA   IE   II   IO   IU   ~   OA   OE   OI   OO   OU   ~   UA   UE   UI   UO   UU

8s             AA   AE   AI   AO   AU  ~   EA   EE   EI   EO   EU

IA   IE   II   IO   IU   ~   OA   OE   OI   OO   OU   ~   UA   UE   UI   UO   UU

It's All Relative – Meet the relatives! WORD FAMILIES WITH SAME ROOT

A ~ E          F ~ J          K ~ O          P ~ T          U ~ Z

That's Entertainment! – that's ENTERTAINMENT, LEISURE bingos

Leisure 7s                                       Leisure 8s

All 7s (25,473) & 8s (31,736) sorted into each relevant theme below

Have One Too Many? – still many bingos even with DUPLICATE TILES

Duplicate 7s                                        Duplicate 8s

The Luck of the Draw – Top 1000 MOST LIKELY BINGOS – know these

Top 1000 Most Likely 7s                    Top 1000 Most Likely 8s

Stretch of Imagination – EXTENSIONS TO TWS from opening plays

TWS Front Extensions                        TWS  Back Extensions

Before You Know It – verbs that take PRE- in front to do it BEFORE

PRE- 4s          PRE- 5s          PRE- 6s          PRE- 7s          PRE- 8s

Think Again – verbs that take RE- in front to do it AGAIN

RE- 5s          RE- 6s          RE- 7s          RE- 8s

Tripl3 - Tripl3 - Thr3at – most likely + 1 or 2 tiles on board = TWS – TWS

Triple-Triple 8s                                     Triple-Triple 9s

Remember Me – mnemonic "CATNIP HOLDERS" uses bingo-friendliest letters

Mnemonic 7s                                 Mnemonic 8s

Three's a Crowd – THREE OF THE SAME LETTER? Crowds of bingos, tho

  Consonant 7s          Vowel 7s          Consonant 8s          Vowel 8s

Once in a Blue Moon – Bottom 1000 LEAST LIKELY BINGOS – just in case!

Bottom 1000 Least Likely 7s                    Bottom 1000 Least Likely 8s

Go Down in History – PAST PEOPLE / THINGS go down on board now

History 7s                                    History 8s

Home Sweet Home –  sweet plays about FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS

Furniture 7s                                    Furniture 8s

Questionable Plays? – WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHICH in words

Questions 7s                                       Questions 8s

State of Play –   PAIRS OF STATE POSTAL CODES in either order

States 7s                                  States 8s

Name Game – bingos from LETTERS IN RECENT POPULAR NAMES

Names 7s                                          Names 8s

Alternating Current – letter ALTERNATINGLY REPEATS (at least 3 times)

Alternating 7s                                   Alternating 8s

At Face Value – TOTAL TILE POINTS  (most likely to draw lower value tiles)

7s

7          8          9          10          11          12          13          14

15          16          17          18          19          20          21          22

23          24          25          26          27          28          29

8s

8          9          10          11          12          13          14          15

16          17          18          19          20          21          22          23

24          25          26          27          28          29          30

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

Value          Extensions          Anagrams          Likeliest          Unlikeliest

Winningest          ALL

Love & Marriage – love plays on LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS, SEX, MARRIAGE

Love 7s                                   Love 8s

Final Analysis –  B, I, O, Q, U, V, X, or Z in final position of a word. Tricky!

Final 7s                                        Final 8s

Half Wit – if HALF OF RACK ARE SAME LETTER, don't get mad, get witty

Half 7s                                  Half 8s

See the Light! – see LIGHT, ILLUMINATION, SHADOW, DARKNESS

Light 7s                                   Light 8s

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Updated to NWL23

Updated to NWL23