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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.
| AAADYY | & a blank |
| ABCNOY | & a blank |
| ABHTTU | & a blank |
| ACEEEU | & a blank |
| ACEIKX | & a blank |
| ACHOVY | & a blank |
| ADEJLN | & a blank |
| AHIORW | & a blank |
| AQSSUW | & a blank |
| BDENOZ | & a blank |
| BEILOQ | & a blank |
| CDFNUT | & a blank |
| CELOPX | & a blank |
| CINNOO | & a blank |
| CLPRTU | & a blank |
| CMNORY | & a blank |
| DEIQUZ | & a blank |
| EGINUU | & a blank |
| EHNORV | & a blank |
| EHNOTZ | & a blank |
| EPRSYZ | & a blank |
| FLOMMU | & a blank |
| FNOPRU | & a blank |
| GLNORW | & a blank |
| HLMNTY | & a blank |
| IJSTUY | & a blank |
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| awayday | W | |
| balcony | L | |
| bathtub | B | |
| evacuee | V | |
| pickaxe | P | |
| anchovy | N | |
| jangled | G | |
| airshow | S | |
| squawks | K | |
| bronzed | R | |
| oblique | U | |
| defunct | E | |
| complex | M | |
| conjoin | J | |
| culprit | I | |
| acronym | A | |
| quizzed | Z | |
| queuing | Q | |
| chevron | C | |
| dozenth | D | |
| zephyrs | H | |
| flummox | X | |
| upfront | T | |
| wrongly | Y | |
| monthly | O | |
| justify | F | |
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Below are 60 3 letter words - can you concatenate them into 20 9 letter everyday-ish words ?
e.g if ATE, COL and PER were on the list you could make PERCOLATE.
The letter order in each 3-letter word cannot be changed, and once used a 3-letter word cannot be used twice.
| ACH | ING | RAM |
| AGO | ION | RET |
| ARB | ISH | RIF |
| ARY | KID | RIG |
| ATE | KIT | ROT |
| AVA | LIG | ROW |
| AVE | MAR | SAC |
| BAN | MIC | SEC |
| CHE | MIL | SUP |
| CHI | MIS | SYN |
| CIS | NAG | TEE |
| CON | NAP | TEN |
| DAG | NIT | TIN |
| DUN | OBS | TIT |
| ERN | OLE | TOR |
| ERS | ORE | TRY |
| EST | OVA | TUM |
| FIG | PAR | URE |
| GUE | PER | UTE |
| ICE | PRE |
WHO |
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| ARBORETUM BANDAGING |
| CHEMISTRY CONFIGURE |
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KIDNAPPER KITTENISH |
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MICROWAVE MILLIGRAM |
| OBSTINATE PARACHUTE |
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PRECISION RIGMAROLE |
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ROTAVATOR SACRIFICE |
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SECRETARY SUPERNOVA |
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SYNAGOGUE TEENAGERS |
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TITCHIEST WHODUNNIT |
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Three quiz questions this month all connected with the World Cup taking place in Qatar.
Easy-ish question
How many words can you make just using the letters of QATAR ? There are 10 in all, try to get 8 or more.
Medium-ish question
What 4 letter words can you make with CUP and a blank? There are 7 in all, try to get more than 5.
Hard question
What 7 letter words can you make with WORLD and 2 blanks ?
There are 18 words in total, try to get at least 5. Because this is quite hard, sorry very hard, the 36 letters you need are :
A B B C D
EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE
G H II II L O P
RR S YYY
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Final whistle - now!
QATAR words :
AA AR AT TA
ART QAT RAT TAR
RATA TARA
CUP words :
CAUP COUP CUPS CUSP
PUCE PUCK
SCUP
WORLD words :
AR - WARLORD
BE - BOWLDER, LOWBRED
CE - CLOWDER
DE - WORLDED
EE - LOWERED, ROWELED
EG - GROWLED
EH - WHORLED
EI - DOWLIER, WORLDIE
EO - WOOLDER
EP - PROWLED
ER - WORLDER
ES - WELDORS
IY - ROWDILY, WORDILY
LY - WORLDLY
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Here are a selection of alphagrams. Each of them makes one valid 7-letter word. There is a theme. Can anyBODY spot it?
AADEHWY
ABHILNO
ACDEHIR
ACEEKNP
ACEFRSU
AHMNORY
BBEIRRY
CEEGLLO
CILOPSW
DEFLOOT
EEEHILW
EEGRSTY
EGLNPRU
EHIPPTW
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Answer |
Body Part |
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AADEHWY |
HEADWAY |
HEAD |
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ABHILNO |
HOBNAIL |
NAIL |
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ACDEHIR |
CHAIRED |
HAIR |
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ACEEKNP |
KNEECAP |
KNEE |
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ACEFRSU |
SURFACE |
FACE |
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AHMNORY |
HARMONY |
ARM |
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BBEIRRY |
BRIBERY |
RIB |
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CEEGLLO |
COLLEGE |
LEG |
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CILOPSW |
COWSLIP |
LIP |
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DEFLOOT |
FOOTLED |
FOOT |
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EEEHILW |
WHEELIE |
HEEL |
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EEGRSTY |
GREYEST |
EYE |
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EGLNPRU |
PLUNGER |
LUNG |
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EHIPPTW |
WHIPPET |
HIP |
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