Category : A Collection of Games for DOS and Windows
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Filename : BINGOS.TXT

 
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BINGOS

There are two frequently occuring combinations of six letters that lend
themselves to Bingos. These are the notorious SATIRE and RETINA.


SATIRE combinations
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a : aristae
b : barites, baiters, terbias
c : raciest, stearic
d : diaster, astride, tirades, disrate, staider
e : seriate
f : fairest
g : stagier, seagirt, aigrets, gaiters
h : hastier
i : airiest
l : saltire, realist, retails, saltier, slatier
m : imarets, misrate
n : stainer, retsina, retains, ratines, nastier, stearin, retinas
p : piaster, traipse, pirates, parties, pastier
r : tarsier, tarries
s : satires
t : artiste, striate, attires, tastier, ratites
v : vastier, veritas
w : wariest, wastrie, waiters


RETINA combinations
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c : creatin, certain
d : detrain, trained
e : retinae, trainee
f : fainter
g : tangier, ingrate, tearing, granite
h : inearth
i : inertia
k : keratin, intaker
l : ratline, latrine, reliant, retinal, trenail
m : minaret, raiment
n : entrain
p : painter, pertain, repaint
r : terrain, retrain, trainer
s : retsina, stainer, retinas, stearin, nastier, retains, ratines
t : tertian, nattier, nitrate
u : taurine, urinate, ruinate, uranite
w : tawnier, tinware


from: Conklin, THE OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS HANDBOOK, 1976: Crown
Publishers.


  3 Responses to “Category : A Collection of Games for DOS and Windows
Archive   : SCRABLST.ZIP
Filename : BINGOS.TXT

  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/