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you also need to consider that points are added to the player who's out of tiles, so its not exactly good for bob to have 50 tiles in his rack.

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While something like 11 tiles is only 4 more tiles than the WCP has, how many more combinations of bingos is it? A lot. A person with a decent vocabulary should be playing bingos probably like 92% (pulled that outta my ass) of the time with a 13 or so letter rack.

I gotta go win the Mega Stack Challenge at Foxwoods, but I will probably spend half of my time thinking about this.

[/ QUOTE ]i think bingoes are easier to find in a rack of AEINRST than ACCEGKIMNRSTZ. its probably a misconception that you need a high vocabulary to be good at scrabble. if you couldn't find a lot of bingoes in ACCEGKIMNRSTZ, see how many common words appear when you take out -ING, -ERS, -ER, -IER, -IES, -IEST, etc.

btw i'd considre myself a poorer intermeidate player at best, and i'd easily take myself over a 4 times a year player with 11 tiles.