hinging
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When hinging helps
Base Score
7
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
G H I N
Two-Letter Start
HI
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ING
Check this pattern late
- 7 letters
- 4 unique letters
- HI start
- ING ending
- repeated letters
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- hinging is worth 7 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include g, h, i, n plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (G x2, I x2, N x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ING ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the HI start.
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verb
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
verb
(with on or upon) To depend on something.
verb
The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
"The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core."
verb
To bend.
Related Words
Same Letters
- nigh