Apologies if this is on the box lid but I just thought of it today. I hit my first “bingo” last night (the word was RELISHES) which included a double word score. Does the 50-point bingo bonus also double or is the bingo bonus an add-on after all other scoring is calculated? Since it didn’t occur to me until well after the fact we scored it as an undoubled add-on.
Nope, the bonus doesn’t double.
No, the 50 points is above and beyond the regular score. Not doubled.
Oh well. So I only crushed her by 100 points instead of 150. I’ll live.
Just imagine if the rule had been the other way and you played your bingo across two triple word scores… 
Zev Steinhardt
SInce Scrabble has come up as a topic, I suggest reading “Word Freak” by Stefan Fatsis. It was fascinating and I have been hounding people to play ever since.
FTR, I don’t think I’d want to replace my passion for words with a passion for strategy/victory/rules minutia, as the players in the book seem to have done, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a brilliant game.
I still remember my first bingo. “CAVALIER,” and I got it on my opening draw. I was as surprised as the people against whom I was playing.
Should have added the little brackets that meant I played it across the “E.”
Ooops.
Oh, I suppose I should include my brackets too: RELI[S]HES.
I was also playing both of the blanks (for the final ES, is there a notation for that?).
We play a cheaty variation of Scrabble in which each player gets 9 tiles instead of 7. It makes bingos far more common, and makes the game move a lot faster. I like it.
Daniel
OK, since you’re all here to fight ignorance, why doesn’t someone fight a little of mine, and explain to me what a “bingo” is in the game of Scrabble. Please? 
When you use all seven of the tiles on your rack in a single turn.
I assume a “bingo” the way you play would still mean just 7 tiles, instead of the 9 that constitutes a full rack (again, the way you play)?
Cheater!
Bingo.
Daniel
Oh. Thanks.
I played Australian rules once.
You know, you have to words that don’t exist.
My favorite was Euralaivydongs
I forget what the word was when I played my first bingo, but I recall it was on a triple word score and I was quite pleased with myself, heh.
I was playing against mom the other day, and losing. About 6 turns before the end I managed to play PEERING on a double word score, and in my next turn I did a play on a triple word score. Moral of the story: picking up 135 points towards the end is a great way to come from behind and win.
Happy Scrappy, Word Freak is atop my must-read list. My dad picked it up from the library for me a week ago but I just don’t have the time to read it, so come winter break that’s going to be the first thing I do.