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- "COMMON" BINGOS
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- The book, THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO WINNING SCRABBLE, by Lawrence and Ozag gives
- a list of "The 100 Most Common Bingos". This began me wondering how they
- derived that list. So, I decided to make up my own list by, how else,
- computer simulation.
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- I wrote a simple little program to pick 7-letter racks "at random". Starting
- with the standard Scrabble pool of 100 letters (9 A's, 2 B's, etc.), I had 14
- racks (=98 letters) chosen in each "game". For each chosen rack, I found and
- recorded every possible 7-letter bingo. I automated the process so that the
- computer chose the racks and saved all bingos to a file. I then set it up to
- repeat the process 11,000 times, for a total of 154,000 racks, a pretty good
- representative sample I think, and went to bed while the computer ran
- overnight. It took about 7 hours to run the 154,000 racks on my 486DX2-66.
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- The list below gives all 7-letter bingos that occurred at least three times
- in the 154,000 racks. The number in front of each word is, of course, the
- number of occurrences. Here then is my list of "common bingos".
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- Note that this list does *not* accurately reflect common bingos occurring in
- actual play. In the "real world", every halfway decent player will "manage"
- his or her rack, holding back BLANKS, S's, building block prefixes and
- suffixes (such ER and ING), and aiming for reasonable rack balance. This
- actually skews the odds toward bingos by a factor of 3 or 4! My computer
- simulation found a bingo about every 30 racks, whereas good players will
- bingo much more frequently than that. The list below is therefore more
- typical of the most common bingos played early in the game, before rack
- management becomes much of a factor and the player's rack is more nearly
- "random".
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- MY LIST OF 219 "COMMON" BINGOS
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- 3 ACROGEN
- 3 ADRENAL
- 3 AEOLIAN
- 4 AERIEST
- 3 AEROSOL
- 3 AGINNER
- 6 AILERON
- 3 AIRLINE
- 3 ALIENER
- 6 ALIENOR
- 5 ALIGNER
- 3 ANEMONE
- 3 ANERGIA
- 4 ANERGIC
- 5 ANEROID
- 4 ANESTRI
- 4 ANGRIER
- 3 ANILINE
- 3 ANISEED
- 4 ANISOLE
- 4 ANTSIER
- 4 APRONED
- 6 ARENITE
- 3 ARENOUS
- 3 ARISTAE
- 3 ARTSIER
- 3 ASTERIA
- 3 ASTHENY
- 3 ATRESIA
- 3 AUDITOR
- 3 BEAMIER
- 5 BEARING
- 3 BEASTIE
- 3 BETAINE
- 3 BLANDER
- 3 BONIEST
- 6 BRAINED
- 3 CAIRNED
- 3 CANDIES
- 3 CARINAL
- 3 CARLINE
- 3 CELOSIA
- 3 CLANGER
- 3 CLARION
- 3 CRANIAL
- 3 DANDLER
- 4 DANGLER
- 3 DENARII
- 4 DERAIGN
- 3 DESTAIN
- 3 DETAINS
- 3 DICTIER
- 3 DRASTIC
- 3 DUSTIER
- 4 EARINGS
- 3 EARNING
- 4 EARRING
- 3 ELATION
- 4 ELOINED
- 3 ENDUROS
- 5 ENGRAIL
- 3 ENGRAIN
- 3 ENLARGE
- 3 ENTERIC
- 3 ENTICER
- 3 ENTRANT
- 3 EQUATOR
- 4 ERASING
- 4 ERASION
- 3 ERELONG
- 4 ESTRONE
- 3 ETESIAN
- 4 ETHANES
- 3 FAITOUR
- 3 FEARING
- 3 FORTIES
- 4 GAINERS
- 3 GEARING
- 3 GENERAL
- 3 GERMINA
- 3 GLANCER
- 3 GLEANER
- 4 GNARLED
- 4 GRADINE
- 4 GRAINED
- 4 GRAINER
- 3 GRANITE
- 3 GRANNIE
- 3 GRATINE
- 3 GREAVES
- 4 GROANED
- 3 HANDLER
- 3 HASTIER
- 3 HEARING
- 3 HEAVENS
- 3 HERNIAL
- 3 HEXANES
- 3 IGNATIA
- 3 INCASED
- 3 INGRATE
- 3 INHALER
- 3 INLAYER
- 3 INSTEAD
- 4 INTEGER
- 4 IODATES
- 4 LADRONE
- 3 LAUNDER
- 3 LURDANE
- 3 MAGNETO
- 3 MANGIER
- 3 MANGLER
- 3 MANLIER
- 3 MARLINE
- 3 MEGATON
- 3 MELODIA
- 3 MINERAL
- 3 MONTAGE
- 3 MORAINE
- 3 NAGGIER
- 3 NAIADES
- 3 NAIVETE
- 3 NARDINE
- 5 NARGILE
- 4 NASTIER
- 3 NEARING
- 4 NEGATOR
- 3 NEURONE
- 3 NUMERIC
- 3 ONETIME
- 3 OPALINE
- 4 OPERAND
- 3 OSTIARY
- 3 OUTAGES
- 3 OUTDARE
- 3 OUTEARN
- 3 OUTRAGE
- 3 OUTREAD
- 3 OVARIES
- 4 PADRONE
- 3 PANDIES
- 4 PANDORE
- 3 PANIERS
- 3 PARDINE
- 3 POETIZE
- 3 PROLINE
- 5 RANDIES
- 4 RANGIER
- 3 RAPINES
- 4 RATINES
- 3 RAVELIN
- 4 READING
- 3 READOUT
- 4 REAGINS
- 5 REALIGN
- 3 REAMING
- 3 REAPING
- 4 REARING
- 3 REASONS
- 3 REAVERS
- 3 REAVING
- 4 REGAINS
- 4 REGINAE
- 5 REGINAL
- 4 REGINAS
- 3 RENVOIS
- 3 RESOUND
- 4 RETAINS
- 6 RETINAE
- 4 RETINAS
- 4 RETINOL
- 4 RETRAIN
- 4 RETSINA
- 3 ROMAINE
- 4 RONDEAU
- 3 ROSEOLA
- 3 SAINTED
- 5 SANDIER
- 5 SARDINE
- 3 SAUTOIR
- 3 SAVIOUR
- 4 SEARING
- 3 SELVAGE
- 3 SENORAS
- 4 SERIATE
- 4 SERINGA
- 3 SHANTEY
- 3 SIALOID
- 3 SOLATED
- 3 SOUNDER
- 3 STAINED
- 4 STAINER
- 4 STEARIN
- 3 STUDIER
- 3 TANGIER
- 3 TARRIES
- 3 TARSIER
- 3 TEARING
- 3 TEMPERA
- 4 TERRAIN
- 4 TOADIES
- 3 TOENAIL
- 3 TONGERS
- 6 TRAINEE
- 4 TRAINER
- 3 TRAVOIS
- 4 TREEING
- 3 UNAIRED
- 3 UNDOERS
- 3 URANIDE
- 3 VAPORER
- 3 VARIOUS
- 3 VERSION
- 3 VERTIGO
- 3 VIATORS
- 3 VINEGAR
- 3 WANGLER
- 3 WEARING
- 3 WRANGLE
- 3 ZINGARE
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