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Storms  ISHA and JOCELYN have just whistled through, leaving a trail of wind, rain, and blown-down fences in their wake.  And they have also left a couple of mini-quizzes behind.

ISHA

What 3-letter words can you make from 3 of the letters in ISHA?  (Hint: there are 9)

JOCELYN

What 4-letter words can you make using 4 of the letters in JOCELYN? (Hint: there are 17)
And how many 5-letter words can you make using 5 of the letters in JOCELYN? (Hint: there are 6)
(Extra hint: about half of the 23 words are in common usage.)

 

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ISHA answers:

AHI, AHS, ASH, HAS, SHA, AIS, SAI, HIS, ISH

 

JOCELYN answers

4-letter words: CLON, CLOY, COLE. COLY, CONE, CONY, ENOL, JEON, JOEY, JOLE, LENO, LONE, LYNE, NOEL, NOLE, ONCE, ONLY

5-letter words: CLONE, CLOYE, COLEY, CONEY, ENJOY, ONELY

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Two quizzes for you this month - both are straightforward and very shareable with any friends and family you may see over the festive period.
 
Question 1 : can you score 42 points on the attached festive board ?
 
 
 
Question 2 :
 
Combine the 30 4 letter words below to make 15 8 letter words. You cannot change the letters in a word, just append one 4 letter word to another. Take care as some of the 4 letter words combine with several others... pick carefully!
 
 
BELT                BLOW
COCK              CROC
DISC                EVEN
FLAP                FOWL
HOLE               JACK
LIFE                  LOSE
MONO              PAGE
QUAD               RAIL
RANT               SEAT
SHOD               SILK 
SLIP                  SONG            
SPAN                STOP
TAIL                   TIPS                 
USES                WILD               
WING                WORM
 
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Q1 Playing TURKEY in row 2, using the T and K on the board, scores 42.
 
Q2 The fifteen 8 letter words are :
 

COCK TAIL

STOP PAGE

SLIP SHOD

FLAP JACK

SEAT BELT

LIFE SPAN

WING TIPS

QUAD RANT

 

DISC LOSE

CROC USES

EVEN SONG

SILK WORM

BLOW HOLE

WILD FOWL

MONO RAIL

 

 

 

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What to do with 2 blanks ?

 

Try to make them into a 7 letter word. Think about the other 5 tiles -what is missing to make a good rack? An S ? A vowel ? A consonant ? Mentally turn one of the blanks into one of these ‘missing letters’ and then continue again to allocate the second blank.

 

Here are two questions :

 

1.     1.   What bonuses can you make with BLANK and two blanks ?

There are 8 words to find – try to find at least 5.

 

2.       2. What are the 9 anagrams of NOVEM and two blanks ?

This is harder, most are NOT in common parlance, but most are ‘definable’ if you saw them in a book. Try to find at least 4

 

 

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Quiz answers :

 

BLANK?? –

BLACKEN BLANKED BLANKIE BLANKER BLANKET BALKING BLANKLY LAMBKIN

 

NOVEM??

OVERMAN ENMOVED VENOMED UNMOVED ENVENOM OVERMEN VENOMER ENMOVES EMOVING

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There are 20 4 letter words that have 3 letters the same, and one different fourth letter. What are those 20 words ?
 
e.g One of the words contains 3 Bs – but what is the other letter ?
 
For the 20 words you will require the following letters as the triplicate :
 
B, E, F H, L, M, R, S, T and Z.
 
To get to the 20 answers, you will need to create multiple words with some of the triplicate letters. Extra hint…four of the 20 words contain 4 consonants!
 
 
 
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A -

B BIBB

C -

D -

E EPEE, EEEW

F FAFF, FUFF

G -

H SHHH

I -

J -

K -

L LALL, LILL, LOLL, LULL

M HMMM, MUMM

N -

O -

P -

Q -

R BRRR

S SASS, SESS, SISS, SOSS, SUSS

T TATT

U -

V -

W -

X -

Y -

Z ZIZZ, ZZZS

 

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Sometimes you see a bonus on your rack – realise it won’t play, so you move on. But there may be another playable anagram. The following racks all make two 7 letter anagrams, and in many cases can be ‘connected’ by a simple sentence. (Sometimes easily, sometimes outrageously). Thinking of the sentence will help you remember the second word.

 

For example :

 

ADEEISS In former times if you had a  ******* you went to the ******* to recover.

ADEGRTY Disco-dancers ******* on the dance floor to the Bee Gees song ‘*******’.

Why not solve these anagrams… and make your own memorable sentence? PS It doesn’t matter if you don’t the exact meaning of a word, if you think you can imagine a meaning, that’s good enough!

 

ADEEISS 

ADEGRTY

DEIOSTU

AEINSTU

EFILORT

ADEILST

BDEGINO

GHINPSU

AEILNOT

AEILQTU

ABEIRRT

INOOPSS

KIMNOOS

EORSSTY

CEFIRTY

CEINRST

AOPRRST

 

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ADEEISS  : DISEASE SEASIDE

ADEGRTY : GYRATED TRAGEDY

DEIOSTU : OUTSIDE TEDIOUS

AEINSTU : AUNTIES SINUATE

EFILORT : LOFTIER TREFOIL

ADEILST : DETAILS DILATES

BDEGINO : BINGOED BOINGED

GHINPSU : GUNSHIP PUSHING

AEILNOT : ELATION TOENAIL

AEILQTU : LIQUATE TEQUILA

ABEIRRT : ARBITER RAREBIT

INOOPSS : POISONS POISSON

KIMNOOS : KIMONOS MONOSKI

EORSSTY : OYSTERS STOREYS

CEFIRTY : CERTIFY RECTIFY

CEINRST : CISTERN CRETINS

AOPRRST : PARROTS RAPTORS

 

 

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