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Category: Wordplay

Published: 07 August 2020

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Below are 12 5 letter alphagrams each containing the Q, and  each making 2 valid  5-letter Scrabble words. 

How many of the 24 do you know ?

ADIQS

ADQSU

AELQU

AENQU

AIMQU

AIQSU

AQSTU

DIQSU

EIPQU

EIQTU

EOQTU

INOQU

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Here they are :

QADIS   QAIDS

QUADS   SQUAD

EQUAL    QUALE

QUEAN    QUENA

MAQUI     UMIAQ

QUAIS     QUASI

QUATS     SQUAT

QUIDS     SQUID

EQUIP      PIQUE

QUIET     QUITE

QUOTE    TOQUE

QUOIN     QUINO

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Category: Wordplay

Published: 31 July 2020

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What words can you find from the list of alphagrams below?  There are 4 each of 4-7 letters, all with at least two anagrams, and at least one of the answers is a flower that grows in gardens in England.

Apologies: some of the anagrams are quite obscure (many are not), and one of the anagrams has 13! answers.

AEGS
EORS
IIRS
ILLY                     

AERST
AILOV
ENOPY
ILPTU

AAILSV
CCORSU
CDHIOR
EILOTV

ABEILST
ACEINOT
AEEFIRS
AEEGSTT

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AEGS                   ages, gaes, SAGE
EORS                   eros, ores, reos, ores, ROSE, sore
IIRS                      IRIS, siri
ILLY                      illy, LILY, yill

AERST                 arets, ASTER, earst, rates, reast, resat, stare, stear, strae, tares, taser, tears, teras
AILOV                  VIOLA, voila
ENOPY                PEONY, poney
ILPTU                   TULIP, uplit

AAILSV                avails, saliva, SALVIA
CCORSU              CROCUS, occurs, succor
CDHIOR              droich, ORCHID, rhodic
EILOTV                olivet, VIOLET

ABEILST              ableist, albites, ASTILBE, bastile, bestial, blastie, libates, stabile
ACEINOT            ACONITE, anoetic
AEEFIRS              arefies, faeries, FREESIA
AEEGSTT             gestate, TAGETES

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Written by HG

Category: Wordplay

Published: 25 July 2020

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Face masks have becoming mandatory this week in shops etc.

This week we are giving you 2 answers (aren't we kind !)

a) what are the front hooks to ACE? i.e 4 letter words ending ACE ?

b) what are the back hooks to ACE? i.e 4 letter words starting ACE ?

c) what are the front hooks to MAS ? ie 4 letter words ending MAS?

d) what are the back hooks to MAS ? ie 4 letter words starting MAS?

There are 19 words in total, well done if you got more than 12/13.

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DACE, FACE, LACE, MACE, PACE, RACE, TACE

ACED, ACER, ACES

AMAS, OMAS

MASA, MASE, MASH, MASK, MASS, MAST, MASU

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Written by HG

Category: Wordplay

Published: 18 July 2020

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Below are 10 racks of tiles, each containing a K.

Assuming each is your opening rack in a game, what is the highest score you can achieve with each rack. The highest answers all use the K !

AAEGKRT

BEFIKLN

AIKOPRS

ADEKLOP

DGIKMNO

EHKLOOW

AEEKRUX

AEIKLLU

AAEKPRT

IKMNOOW

Do let us know how many maximums you got !

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Here they are :

KARATE 30

KNIFE    34

OKAPIS   34

POLKAED   84

KINGDOM   90

WHELK      40

EUREKA     30

ALIKE        20

PARTAKE    86

KIMONO     34