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Published: 05 November 2019

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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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Published: 05 August 2019

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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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Published: 26 July 2019

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With many people going on holiday in the next few weeks, why not use your destination as a word-learning exercise.

We recently had a weekend break in CARDIFF so using that as your rack..

What are the 4 and 5 letter words you can make from the rack CARDIFF.

There are 24 words, 7 are mainly everyday words, if you can find 10-14 well done, and 14 or more excellent.

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ACID, CADI, CAID

ACRID, CAIRD, CARDI, DARIC

CARD, DRAC

CAFF

FARCI

CRIA

DAFF

DRAFF

FARD

ARID, DARI, RAID, RIAD

RAFF

FAIR, FIAR

DIFF

RIFF

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Published: 02 July 2019

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As from July 1, the UK Scrabble movement, and East Berks Scrabble Club have adopted Collins Scrabble Words 2019 (CSW 19) as the definitive word adjudication word list.

Some of the new words include :

EW

OK

ZE

BAE

BAO

DOX

UME

VAX

ZEN

Please note that articles written before July 1 relate to Collins Scrabble words 2015 unless otherwise stated.