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Happy New Year !

A quick quiz to start the year 2020… what 3-5 words can you make from TWENTY ?

There are 26 words in total – well done if you find 12-14, excellent if you find TWENTY or more!

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Here are the answers :

EWT

NET,   NETT,  NETTY,  NEW,   NEWT,   NYE

TEN, TENT, TENTY, TET,  TEW, TYE, TYNE, TYTE

WEN, WENT, WET, WEY, WYE, WYN, WYTE

YEN,   YET,  YETT,   YEW

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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.

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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