Under the E, "Ectopic" (unusual Bingos you have made in Scrabble)

There are other general Scrabble threads; this one is for Bingos. But not generic ones--"-ers," "-ing," "-ier" Bingos--but ones you know you'll probably never make again. It can be online or a real-life game. I supect this will end up being my own private domain, like the Immaculate Thread grid has more or less become.)

In a game I just finished, "infrared" (the game ended before I could grab a screen shot). I posted about "ectopic" a few years ago in a Rosemary's Baby thread. Three from the past few months: "quibblers" and, in the same game, "perfidy" and "umlauts." ("Quibblers" was a triple-triple worth 189 + 50 points. When I searched to see if I'd posted about it before, I found out that the word has been used four times in the history of ILX, twice by aimless.)

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs1t8RQb/quibbler.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/L8HBNPQX/perfidy.jpg

The best bingo ever played against me was on isc.ro: "judoists" across a triple-triple for some ungodly amount of points. I was playing someone I didn't like from previous games, so I did the sportsmanlike thing and quit on the spot.

I was pejoratively known to a few acquaintances in college as "Ruineth," because I wore them down into accepting that if the archaic forms of some verbs are acceptable (e.g. goeth, doeth), the archaic form of any verb should be acceptable, even if that particular one isn't in the scrabble dictionary, and therefore made a bingo with ruineth and won the game. I still occasionally remember it and laugh and also feel a pang of shame about it.

Quibblers quibbleth, there's nothing you can do about it.

https://i.postimg.cc/yY7DXQC8/vertigo-1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/1XB5jS15/vertigo-2.jpg

First link is nsfw for some reason

? All I see are two screenshots of two online Scrabble boards.

From the other day: "patinas."

https://i.postimg.cc/0NfNCC2c/patinas.jpg

Not all that unusual in its singular form, but plural? Would you ever actually use it in its pluralized form in everyday conversation? There are a ton of words like that in Scrabble, words where the plural form is acceptable (because they're nouns, and nouns have plurals), but as a practical matter, they seem silly.

Karsts

Epigone.

https://i.postimg.cc/fTp7z2gP/epigone.jpg

I had "puzzler" (which I assume would be acceptable) on my rack the other day with nowhere to play it.

Forgot to take a screen shot, but: "zealots." (Which has six common letters and isn't all that unusual, I guess--had it once before, I think.)

"Focalise" for 101.

https://i.postimg.cc/T1D0v5F2/focalise.jpg

If you can vocalise, obviously you can focalise, too.

"Aproning": 158 for the bingo (108 + 50), 658 for the game.

https://i.postimg.cc/hvkTRxYK/aproning.jpg

Words I try to live by: Always Be Aproning.