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This puzzle has been inspired by a game played between two of our members a few weeks back.
One of the players had an unplayable Q, the other player failed to maximise her score as she played her remaining tiles in 2 moves.
Frequently if your opponent is stuck with one tile it can be profitable to play out slowly.
Using this Christmas themed board below and the rack AESTUWZ how many points can you score before the end of the game ? (The words with blanks are MYRRH and JESUS).
Please email any answers to the 'contact us' at the top of this page. Remember to include your individual move scores.
Can you score more than 50 points ? 70 ? over 100 ?
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Quiz Time !
There are 27 3 letter words ending in Z... but how many do you know ?
For the experienced player finding over 15 is quite achievable, for the less experienced try to find 8-10.
Answers below:
in a few lines time
bit further
bit further
soon be here
here they are :
ADZ
BEZ
BIZ
CAZ
COZ
CUZ
FEZ
FIZ
JIZ
LEZ
LUZ
MIZ
MOZ
POZ
REZ
RIZ
SAZ
SEZ
SOZ
TIZ
WAZ
WIZ
WUZ
YEZ
ZIZ
ZUZ
ZZZ
Well done if you got them all!
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This quiz is inspired by a word laid recently at East Berks Scrabble Club.
What are the 4 letter words you can make with YIN and a blank. (There are 16 in all).
What are the 5 letter words you can make with YANG and a blank (There are 11 in all).
This quiz is quite hard – so try to find 8-10 words in total. If you find 11-15 well done, and more than 15 is excellent.
Here are the answers :
Under here
Under here
Under here
Keep going
Keep going
Nearly there
Answers :
YIN :
A: AYIN
B: INBY
K: INKY
L: INLY, LINY
M : MINY (The word MINIEST was played at the club, leading to a discussion about MINY)
O : YONI
P: PINY, PYIN
S: YINS
T : TINY, TIYN, TYIN
V: VINY
W: WINY
X: NIXY
YANG :
D: GANDY
E: GEYAN, GYNAE
G: NAGGY
K: KYANG
M: MANGY
O: AGONY
R: ANGRY, RANGY
S: YANGS
T: TANGY
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To mark the beginning of OCTober (albeit tomorrow), here is an OCTober quiz.
What are the 4 letter words you can make with OCT and a blank.
There are 21 words in all, well done if you get 9-12 - excellent if you get 15+.
Answers below:
under here..
under here...
under here ...
under here ...
under here...
OCT + A : ATOC, COAT, OCTA, TACO
OCT + E : COTE
OCT + F : COFT
OCT + H : COTH
OCT + I : CITO, COIT, OTIC
OCT + K : TOCK
OCT + L : CLOT, COLT
OCT + O : COOT, TOCO
OCT + R : TORC
OCT + S : COST, COTS, SCOT, TOCS
OCT + T : COTT
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Last week we published a World Cup Scrabble Board puzzle. The answers are :
The rack NEWSRIN can be anagrammed to make the apt word WINNERS.
This can be played for 73 points by pluralising MANAGER.
However a higher score can be achieved by playing WINNERS in parallel to GOAL (making GI, ON,AN, and FINALE) this scores 79 points.
The highest non-apt score can be achieved with ANSWERING, as a double-double using the A of SAVE and G of GOAL. Well done if you spotted this 108 point move!
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