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To celebrate Valentine's Day here are two LOVE quizzes one slightly easier than the other !
1. (The easy one) What 5 letter words can be made by hooking a single letter before the word LOVE or after the word LOVE? (7 words in total, well done for getting 5 or more).
2 (The hard one) What 5 letter words can be made with LOVE and a blank ? So all the answers from quiz 1 are allowed plus 19 others. Well done for getting 13 or more.
Answers below :
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1. Front and back hooks to LOVE are :
CLOVE, GLOVE and SLOVE LOVED, LOVER, LOVES and LOVEY.
2. The answers of LOVE and a blank are :
A: LAEVO, LOAVE, VOLAE
C: CLOVE
D: LOVED, VOLED
G : GLOVE
H : HOVEL
I : LOVIE, OLIVE, VOILE
N : NOVEL
R : LOVER
S : LOVES,OVELS, SLOVE, SOLVE, VOLES
T: VOLET, VOLTE
U : OVULE
V : VOLVE
W : VOWEL, WOLVE
X : VOXEL
Y : LOVEY
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Happy New Year and hopefully you had a great Christmas too!
Here is a quiz based on the New Year (EIGHTEEN).
How many 5 letter words or more can you make from the letters in EIGHTEEN ?
There are 23 words in all and many are quite hard... so...
If you only get 5...its cold turkey, 6-10 prosecco, 11-15 fireworks, 16+ champagne!
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| EHING |
| EIGHT |
| EIGHTEEN |
| EIGNE |
| ETHENE |
| ETHNE |
| GENET |
| GENIE |
| HENGE |
| HETING |
| HINGE |
| NEIGH |
| NIGHT |
| TEEING |
| TEENE |
| TENGE |
| THEEING |
| THEGN |
| THEIN |
| THEINE |
| THINE |
| THING |
| TINGE |
Have a great 2018!
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A balanced rack in Scrabble is one which generally contains 7 different letters, and a reasonable spread of vowels and consonants.
A typical problem rack is one that contains two many Is. If you have two Is on your rack I would advocate trying to play one of the Is off on the next move if possible.
However there are many 4 letter words that contain 2 Is. These words are a great way of getting rid of lots of Is at the same time... result!
There are 36 four letter words containing 2 Is :
2 of them start and end with an I
9 of them start with an I and have a third letter as an I
25 of them have one I in position 2 and one in position 4. Two such words, TITI and TIKI, were challenged last Thursday. What are the other 23 ?
Answers below:
BIDI
DIVI DIXI
FINI
HILI HIOI
KIWI
LIRI
MIDI MIHI MINI MIRI
NIDI NISI
PIKI PILI PIPI
SIMI SIRI
TIPI (+TIKI & TITI)
WIKI WILI
ZITI
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The Arabic alphabet is the third of our alphabet series, and is the least kind to Scrabble players.
Many of the words are not allowed in Scrabble, and those that are have other, more everyday meanings.
Here is the alphabet - those marked with an * are NOT allowed in Scrabble.
'Alif * (because of the apostrophe) (but ALIF is acceptable)
Ba
Ta
Tha *
Jim *
Ha
Kha *
Dal
Dhal
Ra *
Zain *
Sin
Shin
Sad
Dad
Ta
Za
'Ain * (because of the apostrophe) (but AIN is acceptable)
Ghain *
Fa
Qaf *
Kaf
Lam
Mim
Nun
Ha
Waw
Ya
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The second set in our alphabet series is the letters of the Greek Alphabet.
Many of these letters appear in scientific terms so should be well known to mathematicians and physicists !
ALL words listed below are valid in Scrabble.
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Epsilon
Zeta
Eta
Theta
Iota
Kappa
Lambda
Mu
Nu
Xi
Omicron
Pi
Rho
Sigma
Tau
Upsilon
Phi
Chi
Psi
Omega
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