Category Archives: Scrabble

BINGO is a slang term used in Scrabble for a play using all seven of one’s tiles.

A player who does this receives 50 points in addition to what the word would normally score.

Since “bingo” only has 5 letters, it can never be a BINGO.

However, it is a legal word … unlike NONGO.

NONGO is a slang term used in SCRABBLE for a BINGO you have on your rack that you can’t find a place to play on the board.

“Nongo” is not a legal word, so even if you have it on your rack and can find a place to play it, it’s just TDB.

TDB is also not a legal word.

I was taking my SCRABBLE turn with Bob and her play reminded me of the time I played SCRABBLE with Robert Earle, host of The GE College Bowl t.v. quiz show. Anybody remember it?

I was dating his son, Thomas, if you must know. 🙂

Source:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Earle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Bowl
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19660223&id=7zUmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1057,335427