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British birds

Here is a list of twenty British birds.  

12 of them can be anagrammed to make 24 valid scrabble words. 8 of the birds can't be anagrammed into other valid words.

What are the 12 anagrammable birds and what words can be made. Just under half are fairly everyday words, so well done if you get move than 13 !

AUK                       COOT                    CROW                   DOVE                    EAGLE

EGRET                   EIDER                    HEN                       KITE                       LARK

OWL                      RAIL                       RAVEN                  ROBIN                   ROOK

RUFF                     SWAN                   TEAL                      TERN                     TIT

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here are the answers :

AUK - no anagram

COOT - TOCO

CROW - no anagram

DOVE - DEVO

EAGLE - AGLEE

EGRET - GREET

EIDER - no anagram

HEN - no anagram

KITE - TIKE

LARK - no anagram

OWL - LOW

RAIL - ARIL, LAIR, LARI, LIAR, LIRA, RIAL

RAVEN - no anagram

ROBIN - INORB

ROOK - KORO

RUFF - no anagram

SWAN - AWNS, SAWN, SNAW, WANS

TEAL - LATE, LEAT, TAEL, TALE, TELA

TERN - RENT

TIT - no anagram

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Published: 06 June 2020

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Here is a list of twenty British birds.   Apart from an S plural, what other letters can you find which hook onto the front or back of the bird’s name to make other words e.g. a Y can be added to GULL to make GULLY.    Just under half of the 57 new words made by adding a letter are also common English words, but some definitely are not !  FYI the 57 words don't include the plurals.

AUK                       COOT                    CROW                   DOVE                    EAGLE

EGRET                   EIDER                    HEN                       KITE                       LARK

OWL                      RAIL                       RAVEN                  ROBIN                   ROOK

RUFF                     SWAN                   TEAL                      TERN                     TIT

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All the names take an S a s the plural.

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What five-letter words can you find which have the structure:

 ?RAC? 

 ie the three letters in the middle are RAC, you just need to supply the two letters at the beginning and end.
There are sixteen in total and about half are common words.  (A big hint is that two of the answers are in the title of the quiz!)

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Imagine you turn over your first tile…it’s a blank. You think you will have a bonus word on your first rack. Your heart sinks when the remaining 6 tiles are rubbish! But what if you look closely….

 Listed below are 26 racks, each containing a blank.

 Each rack makes just one bonus word – can you find them all ?

 As an extra clue, the blank represents a different letter of the alphabet for each different rack. (ie. Only use the blank as an A once, a B once etc..). The blanks are not in alphabetical order though!

 Hint to solving…

 Most of the words are everyday English, none are obscure Scrabble words.

 Give each rack a few moments. Don’t worry if you can’t solve it straightaway.

 Once you have found a few, then think about where the vowels might go, and then the JQXZ.

 Make note of which letters you’ve used…and then try the remaining letters against the remaining racks.