pyramid scheme
NOUN
14 LETTERS · STARTS WITH P
pyramid scheme is a valid 14-letter word worth 28 points in Scrabble and 30 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
P3Y4R1A1M3I1D2S1C3H4E1M3E1
3 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 1 =28 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 56TRIPLE WORD → 84
MEANING
What does pyramid scheme mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
A fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in.
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