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After the conclusion of this round, a twelve-letter Super Lingo word is played between both teams, which starts at $10,000 ($15,000 in season two). The team that has the most money wins the match and moves on to the Lingo Showdown. In the event of a tie game, one more Super Lingo word is played as a tiebreaker to determine the winner of the match.
Before the first puzzle, they are guaranteed $50 regardless of what happens afterward. That $50 is doubled to $100 for the first puzzle. Puzzles in this part of the game are again 5-letter words with 2 letters given, the first letter of the word and a second letter somewhere else in the word. Each line used adds a Lingo ball to be drawn.
On Celebrity Lingo, the rounds' values are increased to £500, £750 and £1,000 for words and £750 (£100), £1,000 (£150) and £1,500 (£200) for puzzles (played with eight-letter, nine-letter and ten-letter words respectively). Unlike the civilian version, losing teams receive a consolation prize of £1,000.
From 2002, the game was played with six-letter words every day, and from 2006 on Fridays, seven-letter words. As of February 6, 2012, games start out with five-letter words, then progress to six- and seven-letter words, and finish with a word that contains eight letters (reduced to seven as well as of February 2014).
The nicknames are sometimes known by the rhyming phrase 'bingo lingo' and there are rhymes for each number from 1 to 90, some of which date back many decades. In some clubs, the 'bingo caller' will say the number, with the assembled players intoning the rhyme in a call and response manner, in others, the caller will say the rhyme and the ...
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Although OSPD bears the name Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, no country’s competitive organization lists the OSPD as its official dictionary; the NASPA Word List is the official word list for tournament Scrabble in the United States, Canada, Thailand and Israel. [2] Merriam-Webster markets the OSPD as ideal for school and family use.