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  2. NASPA Word List - Wikipedia

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    NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. [1] It is based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play.

  3. Lingo (British game show) - Wikipedia

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    Each word is worth up to £500 but its value decreases by £50 for each attempt. Both the four-letter word and five-letter word games are followed by an eleven-letter puzzle word (twelve-letter puzzle word in Series 1) worth up to £1,000 but its value decreases by £180 per letter after the first one as more letters are revealed.

  4. The New York Times Spelling Bee - Wikipedia

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    Each puzzle is guaranteed to have at least one pangram, a word containing at least one of each of the seven letters. Pangrams awards double points (e.g. a seven-letter pangram scores 14 points). [1] [2] If the player finds all of the possible words in a given puzzle, they achieve the title of "Queen Bee". [3] In 2021, the editor Sam Ezersky ...

  5. Bingo (Scrabble) - Wikipedia

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    The highest scoring 7-letter bingo is "MUZJIKS". Though the sum total of the seven tiles is 29 points, if the Z is placed on the double letter square (for maximum score value), the resulting score is (39x2) + 50 = 128 points. The highest scoring 8-letter bingo in Collins is "QUIZZIFY" (using a blank for one of the Zs). Placed on two triple-word ...

  6. Collins Scrabble Words - Wikipedia

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    Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.

  7. Seven dirty words - Wikipedia

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    The seven dirty words have been assumed to be likely to elicit indecency-related action by the FCC if uttered on a TV or radio broadcast, and thus the broadcast networks generally censor themselves with regard to many of the seven dirty words.

  8. Words with Friends - Wikipedia

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    An iPhone Words with Friends game in progress. The opponent has just played FIE, in the process also forming the word QI, for a score of 17 points.. The rules of the game are mostly the same as those of two-player Scrabble, with a few differences such as the arrangement of premium squares and the distribution and point values of some of the letters (see Scrabble letter distributions and point ...

  9. Anadrome - Wikipedia

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    seven letters: amaroid ↔ diorama; deliver ↔ reviled; gateman ↔ nametag; eight letters: desserts ↔ stressed; An anadrome can also be a phrase, as in no tops ↔ spot on. The word redrum (i.e., "red rum") is used this way for murder in the Stephen King novel The Shining (1977) and its film adaptation (1980). [11]