Make only the highest-scoring play possible with your rack.
If you are letting your dishes air dry, "You shouldn't overcrowd your rack," Carey says.
This one is all about placement, using all seven letters of your rack, with Q and S on a triple word score and Z on a double letter.
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Bingo is Scrabble slang for using all seven tiles in your rack on one turn, good for a 50-point bonus.
If you could make a bingo (use all the letters in your rack in a single word, which earns you a bonus of 50 points) you will win, of course.
So next time you have seven consonants on your rack and N, P, and W are among them, enjoy the fact that you can at least make a three-letter word.
You shake your rack, make a sound like an old man clearing his sinuses, then leap a 10-foot barbed-wire fence designed to force you back to the blacktop.
Then you sign off and hit your rack.
When I am lost beyond all redemption, he throws open a door and barks, "This will be your rack, sir!" The tiny linoleum-floored room, lit by a dim overhead bulb, holds two bunk beds, each covered with a thin gray blanket.
Sear your rack for around three minutes on either side.
