Under the E, "Ectopic" (unusual Bingos you have made in Scrabble)

There are other general Scrabble threads; this one is for Bingos. But not generic ones--"-ers," "-ing," "-ier" Bingos--but ones you know you'll probably never make again. It can be online or a real-life game. I supect this will end up being my own private domain, like the Immaculate Thread grid has more or less become.)

In a game I just finished, "infrared" (the game ended before I could grab a screen shot). I posted about "ectopic" a few years ago in a Rosemary's Baby thread. Three from the past few months: "quibblers" and, in the same game, "perfidy" and "umlauts." ("Quibblers" was a triple-triple worth 189 + 50 points. When I searched to see if I'd posted about it before, I found out that the word has been used four times in the history of ILX, twice by aimless.)

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs1t8RQb/quibbler.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/L8HBNPQX/perfidy.jpg

The best bingo ever played against me was on isc.ro: "judoists" across a triple-triple for some ungodly amount of points. I was playing someone I didn't like from previous games, so I did the sportsmanlike thing and quit on the spot.

I was pejoratively known to a few acquaintances in college as "Ruineth," because I wore them down into accepting that if the archaic forms of some verbs are acceptable (e.g. goeth, doeth), the archaic form of any verb should be acceptable, even if that particular one isn't in the scrabble dictionary, and therefore made a bingo with ruineth and won the game. I still occasionally remember it and laugh and also feel a pang of shame about it.

Quibblers quibbleth, there's nothing you can do about it.

https://i.postimg.cc/yY7DXQC8/vertigo-1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/1XB5jS15/vertigo-2.jpg

First link is nsfw for some reason

? All I see are two screenshots of two online Scrabble boards.

From the other day: "patinas."

https://i.postimg.cc/0NfNCC2c/patinas.jpg

Not all that unusual in its singular form, but plural? Would you ever actually use it in its pluralized form in everyday conversation? There are a ton of words like that in Scrabble, words where the plural form is acceptable (because they're nouns, and nouns have plurals), but as a practical matter, they seem silly.

Karsts

Epigone.

https://i.postimg.cc/fTp7z2gP/epigone.jpg

I had "puzzler" (which I assume would be acceptable) on my rack the other day with nowhere to play it.

Forgot to take a screen shot, but: "zealots." (Which has six common letters and isn't all that unusual, I guess--had it once before, I think.)

"Focalise" for 101.

https://i.postimg.cc/T1D0v5F2/focalise.jpg

If you can vocalise, obviously you can focalise, too.

"Aproning": 158 for the bingo (108 + 50), 658 for the game.

https://i.postimg.cc/hvkTRxYK/aproning.jpg

Words I try to live by: Always Be Aproning.

Forgot to take a screenshot, but played "plotzes" today. Didn't know what it meant--"be strongly affected with frustration, excitement, or other strong emotion"--but it sounded credible, and it was indeed legit.

I learned it from Mad magazine as a Yiddishism in the sense of “my new tattoo will make my old man plotz”.

also something gollum does

(xpost) I did think of "putz," which is also acceptable (but with a plural that would come up short for a bingo).

I don't play Scrabble much these days, but this was 16 years ago on holiday in the Lake District and I had to take a pic.
I was 130pts clear before my missus killed me with SKATINGS for 167, penultimate move of the game.

https://live.staticflickr.com/3292/2830369713_c6d93b2d28_c.jpg

Some of the plurals Scrabble allows mystify me--what does "skatings" mean?! (Believe me, I've played a few of these myself.)

There was no dictionary in that cottage, and believe me I tried to rescind this result after the fact. But no, it's all legal! I think RETINOLS was me, which is also pushing it.

(Roller, ice, inline... we've got all the skatings)

Same game: "samurai" and "pieties" (also "peckier" and "renames," but those are easier).

https://i.postimg.cc/tRdTLchQ/samurai.jpg

"Sicklier" on a triple-triple (and the 'k' on a double-letter) for 212 points, 709 for the game.

https://i.postimg.cc/FK2P9KQj/sicklier.jpg

"Quizzes" and "laconic."

https://i.postimg.cc/MKtmcSsK/quizzes.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/kGsKtQvh/laconic.jpg

I think that's the first time I've ever played "quizzes"...not well positioned on the board, so only 86 points, which is not much for that word.

Two from the last couple of weeks: "ability" and "usurper."

https://i.postimg.cc/hPSQyDRs/ability.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/qMjhWPkT/usurper.jpg

I know that neither one seems especially impressive, but when I was looking at the "ability" rack all jumbled up--y, i, i, t, a, l, b (or however it went)--my first instinct was to dump off one of the 'i's with a couple of other letters and hope for a good draw. With "usurper," same thought as soon as I saw the two 'u's. I hate 'u's in Scrabble.

"Umbrella" and "enforcer" in a game tonight, "hunkiest" the other day (triple-triple for 135 points).

https://i.postimg.cc/1zG2HR2q/umbrella.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/TY5k0YW3/hunkiest.jpg

In On the Waterfront, Marlon Brando tells Eva Marie Saint that her braids looked like "a hunk of rope" back at parochial school. Eva Marie's braids were hunky; there was another girl whose were hunkier, and another whose were the hunkiest of all. That's what that means.

("Umbrella"'s not unusual. But it's the first time I've ever played it, so to that end, it is.)

"Goliaths":

https://i.postimg.cc/ZKLJrwCL/goliaths.jpg

Also: "enticing" (triple-triple), "entoils," and "swotted"--662 for the game.

"Zappier":

https://i.postimg.cc/zfQrn3Xq/zappier.jpg

Frank is zappy, Moon Unit's zappier.