# You bingo-stealing bastard **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194 "2007-12-25T07:59:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/1 "2007-12-25T07:59:42Z")
There I was, all set to make personal Scrabble history. My rack: ARTMUA? The middle-left triple-word score: wide open. Conveniently located at J2: The word VOWS. I was going to triple-bingo. I was going to make TRAUMAS and that second A was going to turn VOWS into AVOWS. 86 points would be mine. But then you had to go and play off the word FUN in row C. Take that F and make FOIL down the second column. YOU GOT IN MY WAY. You actually FOILed me. Maybe I could still get away with it? TI is a word. If I clear my rack now the game is over. Maybe that little RL would slip by unnoticed? And hey, with the extra parallel letters I get three more points anyway. I went for it. It would have been a game-ending masterpiece. But it was not to be. He challenged. My beautiful bingo flew off the board. I lost that game by seven points (302 to 309.) I really suck at Scrabble. ☹ [sub]Before you ask, no, I couldn’t move TRAUMAS down and use the first A on VOWS, because there was stuff in the way in the lower left corner.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/2 "2007-12-25T15:55:17Z")
Yeah, Scrabble can get infuriating…I haven’t played in a while. Maybe I should pick it back up again. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/3 "2007-12-25T16:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Yeah, Scrabble can get infuriating..I haven’t played in a while. Maybe I should pick it back up again. [/QUOTE] You’re in for a world of hurt. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/4 "2007-12-25T16:19:53Z")
You should have played TAMARAU or TAMBURA. No, I’ve never heard of those either, but the handy-dandy [Franklin SCR-226](http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=90148444&listingid=14986495&dcaid=17902) worked them out. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/5 "2007-12-25T20:24:55Z")
The sheer impotent fury about being denied triple-digit points because some jabroni played “IT” is matched in intensity only by the glee of doing it to someone else. 😃 _does the DX chop_ And if you ain’t down with that, we got DOUBLE WORD SCORES for ya! ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/6 "2007-12-26T03:42:32Z")
302, and you say you suck? I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a score that high, even with the game I spelled acetone. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-bingo-stealing-bastard/431194/7 "2007-12-27T02:59:04Z")
You need to play me to set things up for you. I just foolishly put an R next to a triple word allowing my wife to play BRAZIERS for a triple-triple with the Z on the double letter for a magnificent 170 points - the most I have ever seen in one go.