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Category: Wordplay

Published: 29 May 2026

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This month’s quiz is a little different – you choose which quiz you want to do!

Did you know you can make 75 words using some of the letters from the rack MAYJUNE ?

Now it would be a bit mean to ask you to list all 75…so pick the quiz most suited to your own skill level!

Quiz 1 – there are 21     2 letter words you can make from the rack MAYJUNE – what are they ? (This will help you learn 1/6^th of all the 2 letter words)

Quiz 2 – there are 33     3 letter words you can make from the rack MAYJUNE – what are they ?

Quiz 3 – there are 17     4 letter words you can make from the rack MAYJUNE  and 4    5 letter words– what are they ?

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Quiz 1

AE AM AN AY

EA EM EN

JA

MA ME MU MY

NA NE NU NY

UM UN

YA YE YU

Quiz 2

AME AMU ANE ANY AUE AYE AYU

EAN EAU EMU

JAM JAY JEU JUN

MAE MAY MAN MEN MEU MNA MUN

NAE NAM NAY NYE NYM

UME UEY

YAE YAM YEA YEN YUM

Quiz 3

4s :

AMEN AUNE

JANE JEAN

MANE MANY MAUN MEAN MENU MYNA

NAME NAMU NEMA NEUM

YAJE YEAN YUAN

5s:

MEANY UNJAM YAMEN YAMUN

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Category: Wordplay

Published: 24 April 2026

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There are 41 4 letter words that end with a Z. 

18 of them end in –ZZ e.g BUZZ and JAZZ for which you would need a blank to play.

This month’s quiz is to name the other 23 4 letter words that end in a Z (ie do not end –ZZ).

This quiz is quite hard, so between 5-10 is a good score, 11-16 very good and 17-23 excellent.

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The answers are :

CHEZ CHIZ

DITZ

FRIZ FUTZ

GEEZ GRIZ

JEEZ

LOLZ LULZ LUTZ

OYEZ

PHIZ PREZ PUTZ

QUIZ

RITZ RONZ

SITZ SWIZ

TREZ

WHIZ

YUTZ

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Category: Wordplay

Published: 27 March 2026

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Fairly straightforward this month.

What 4 letter words can you make with RST and a blank ?

There are 19 answers – about 11 are in everyday usage.

Do let us know how close to the 19 words you find!

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ARTS

ERST

ORTS

RAST RATS REST RETS RITS ROST ROTS RUST RUTS

SORT STAR STIR

TARS TORS TRES TSAR 

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Category: Wordplay

Published: 20 February 2026

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This month’s quiz has a Winter Olympics flavour.

On the attached board, there 15 ways you can score over 50 points. Can you find at least 3 of these solutions, but on different parts of the board i.e you cannot use the same triple word 3 times with only a minor variation of letters in your word! A few answers are obscure but NONE have a Winter Olympics theme.

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Did you spot that the 7 letters made the word ‘OLYMPIC’ ?

Did you spot that it would play on row 2 making OE ?

Unfortunately, ’OLYMPIC’ is not a word, it can only be spelt with a capital ‘O’ !

The word OLYMPICS is a valid word, as this can start with a small ‘O’ , but there are no spare esses on this board!

All the 50 point moves involve triple word scores.

Middle row, left hand triple – MOPeY 58 points

Middle row, left hand triple – POLeY 52 points

Middle row, left hand triple – PLOYeD 51 points

Middle row, right hand triple – IMPLY 58 points

Middle row, right hand triple – aMPLY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – MOPY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – iMPLY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – IMPlY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – MoPY 52 points

Middle row, right hand triple – PuMY 52 points

Bottom row, left hand triple – DaMPLY 52 points

Bottom row, left hand triple – DOPILY 50 points

Bottom row middle triple – sIMPLY 59 points – highest score possible

Bottom row middle triple – MOPsY 53 points

Bottom row middle triple – LIMPsY 50 points

For information the highest score with the triple on the top row is 46 with POsY or MIrY.

Kudos to you if you spotted that SKIMPILY was playable, this scored 44 so didn’t quite make the 50 point threshold.

Well done if you found a few of the 50 point moves, and congratulations if you found the highest score of 59, which according to Tina Turner’s song is …  ‘Simply the Best’ !