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ezbidder:
Can you guess a word that doesn't start with the same letter as the letter originally given?    example, it starts S _ _ _ _ and you guess WATER.  

Has anybody ever done it in the history of Lingo?  If this is allowed, then a team should always guess a word, any word, to avoid the team getting control.

Another strategy is to guess two words right off that bat that have a lot of common letters and vowel, say, AUDIO and STONE

Are there some other words that would be good to start off with right away.

eZb

Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'ezbidder\' date=\'Dec 17 2003, 06:08 PM\'] Can you guess a word that doesn't start with the same letter as the letter originally given?    

Has anybody ever done it in the history of Lingo? [/quote]
 The general consensus around here is that it's probably legal to do so, though I don't know personally if anyone's ever tried it.  

On one of our last really good threads back at Usenet, we decided that NAILS and ROUTE ought to be your first two guesses every time.  That covers the ten most commonly used letters without duplication, and that'll usually go a long way in telling you what letters are in your word.

ezbidder:
thanks for the nails/route thing - i found the old thread on google

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020...40mb-fs.aol.com

interesting read!

eZb

sshuffield70:
I seem to recall (the mind is REALLY fuzzy this morning) that someone did this and lost control.

Justin30519:
I always thought it was stupid for a team to lose their turn on Lingo because they run out of time. If you don't know it, say TEACH or WATER or something. Only one exception. If you are on your last guess, you shouldn't say anything unless you know the word. If you don't know it and spell a word that can't possibly be the answer, you may be giving an extra letter to the other team.
Justin

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