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- 03/06/95
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- In updating the ANAGRAM utility to use "wild cards", it occurred to me that
- it would be simple enough to modify ANAGRAM to print only "bingos", words of
- *seven or more* letters to the listing file. No sooner thought than done.
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- To use BINGO, just type: bingo xxxxxxx, where xxxxxxx is the letter set to
- test for "bingos". Of course, if the letter set has fewer than seven letters,
- no "bingos" will be found. Wild cards, or "blank tiles" are supported by the
- BINGO utility. Just type a question mark (?) for each blank, for example:
- bingo abcde?? will find all bingos containing abcde and *any* two other let-
- ters. Any number of blanks is permissable. Typing bingo ??????? finds *all*
- 7-letter bingos.
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- For those of you new to the Scrabble (tm) world, a "bingo" is a word using
- up the entire rack of seven tiles. This nets an extra 50-point bonus over
- and above the word score, the equivalent of a home run.
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