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EASTER is one of the best 6 letter stems and yields many bonuses.
Over the next 4 days there will be 4 quizzes based on EASTER.
Part 1 - What bonuses, if any, can you make with EASTER + A, EASTER + B, EASTER + C, EASTER + D EASTER + E ?
A couple of hints for you... one of A/B/C/D/E doesn't make a bonus, there are 16 words for the other 4 letters.
Of those 6-8 are everyday words.
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The words are :
A : AERATES
B : BEATERS. BERATES, REBATES
C: CERATES. CREATES, ECARTES, SECRETA
D : DEAREST. DERATES, ESTRADE, REASTED, REDATES. SEDATER. STEARED, TASERED
E : none
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Another day of snow, so why not have a SNOW quiz !
What five letter words can you make with SNOW and a blank ?
There are 26 in all - 10-12 are good well known English words, well done if you exceed 12 and get closer to 15.
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SNOW + D - DOWNS, SOWND
SNOW + E - ENOWS, OWSEN, SOWNE
SNOW + G - GNOWS, GOWNS
SNOW + H - SHOWN
SNOW + I - WINOS
SNOW + K - KNOWS, SNOWK, WONKS
SNOW + L - LOWNS, NOWLS, SWOLN
SNOW + O - SWOON, WOONS
SNOW + P - POWNS
SNOW + R - SWORN
SNOW + S - SNOWS
SNOW + T - NOWTS, STOWN, TOWNS, WONTS
SNOW + U - SWOUN
SNOW + Y - SNOWY
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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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