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How well do you know your 3 letter words ?
Can you construct a chain of 3 letter words such that the last 2 letters of the first word, are the first two letters of the second word. The last 2 letters of the second word are the first two letters of the third... etc.
Or to put it another way, add one letter onto the end of the line always making a valid 3 letter word with the last three letters .
Example :
QAT
QATE (AT shared between qAT and ATe)
QATEA (TE shared between aTE and TEa)
QATEAR (EA shared between tEA and EAr)
etc...
until
Q A T E A R E M O W E X O
Here the line stops as there are no 3 letter words that start XO.
How long a line can you make without using the blanks ? Or with the blanks ?
You may use a word multiple times in your chain, and as a hint to get a really long line you may find QAT, QIS or QIN useful start points.
Can you get 40 letters ? 50 ? 60 ? more ?
If you are unfamiliar with all the valid 3 letter words, then there is a handy list on the ABSP website here : http://www.absp.org.uk/words/study3lw.shtml
Good luck!
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What are the 7 letter words you can make with ADVENT and a blank ?
There are only 5 words - well done if you get 2/3.
All 5 though have probably been played at the club this year !
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ADVENT + I = DEVIANT
ADVENT + O = NOVATED
ADVENT + R = VERDANT
ADVENT + S = ADVENTS
ADVENT + U = VAUNTED
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How well do you know your three letter words ?
Which ones can you make if you have O, U and a blank ?
There are 15 words in total - see how many you get !
About 5 are in everyday English, so see how close you can get to 10 or above !
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here they are :
D : DUO , OUD, UDO
F : FOU, UFO
K : OUK
L : LOU
M : MOU
P : OUP, UPO
R : OUR
S : OUS, SOU
T : OUT
Y: YOU
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A FIRE WORK related quiz.
What (if any) are the 2, 3 and 4 letter words you can make from the word FIRE ?
What (if any) are the 2, 3 and 4 letter words you can make from the word WORK ?
Including the words FIRE and WORK there are 29 words.
A good average score is 16
Well done if you got 21 or above
Excellent if you got 27 or above
Do let me know how you got on!
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FIRE makes :
EF, ER, FE, IF, RE
ERF, FER, FIE, FIR, IRE, REF, REI, RIF
FIER, FIRE, REFI, REIF, RIFE
WORK makes :
KO, OK, OR, OW, WO
KOR, KOW, ROK, ROW, WOK
WORK
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Following on from our trip to CARDIFF, one of our members has recently returned from FALMOUTH.
The letters in FALMOUTH are really useful as they make lots of words (over 50 4 letter words, for example).
What 4 letter words can you find in the letters of FALMOUTH that CONTAIN an F ?
There are 16 in total, 8-10 are relatively English words, - well done if you find more than 10.
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FAUT
FLAM
FLAT
FOAL
FOAM
FOUL
HAFT
HALF
HAUF
HOUF
HUMF
LAUF
LOAF
LOFT
TOFU
TUFA
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