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This month’s quiz has a Winter Olympics flavour.

On the attached board, there 15 ways you can score over 50 points. Can you find at least 3 of these solutions, but on different parts of the board i.e you cannot use the same triple word 3 times with only a minor variation of letters in your word! A few answers are obscure but NONE have a Winter Olympics theme.

 

 

 

 

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Did you spot that the 7 letters made the word ‘OLYMPIC’ ?

Did you spot that it would play on row 2 making OE ?

Unfortunately, ’OLYMPIC’ is not a word, it can only be spelt with a capital ‘O’ !

The word OLYMPICS is a valid word, as this can start with a small ‘O’ , but there are no spare esses on this board!

 

All the 50 point moves involve triple word scores.

 

Middle row, left hand triple – MOPeY 58 points

Middle row, left hand triple – POLeY 52 points

Middle row, left hand triple – PLOYeD 51 points

 

Middle row, right hand triple – IMPLY 58 points

Middle row, right hand triple – aMPLY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – MOPY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – iMPLY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – IMPlY 55 points

Middle row, right hand triple – MoPY 52 points

Middle row, right hand triple – PuMY 52 points

 

Bottom row, left hand triple – DaMPLY 52 points

Bottom row, left hand triple – DOPILY 50 points

 

 

Bottom row middle triple – sIMPLY 59 points – highest score possible

Bottom row middle triple – MOPsY 53 points

Bottom row middle triple – LIMPsY 50 points

 

 

For information the highest score with the triple on the top row is 46 with POsY or MIrY.

Kudos to you if you spotted that SKIMPILY was playable, this scored 44 so didn’t quite make the 50 point threshold.

 

Well done if you found a few of the 50 point moves, and congratulations if you found the highest score of 59, which according to Tina Turner’s song is …  ‘Simply the Best’ !

 

 

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This month’s quiz involves the common 2 letter word CH.

CH is often played as it is the only 2 letter word containing the letter C.

CH can be hooked with 4 of the vowels making ACH, CHA, ECH, CHE, ICH, CHI and OCH.

This month’s quiz involves these 7 words.

1.      1. What 4 letter words, if any,  start ACH- ?

2.      2. What 4 letter words, if any, start CHA- ?

3.      3. What 4 letter words, if any, start ECH- ?

4.      4. What 4 letter words, if any, start CHE- ?

5.      5. What 4 letter words, if any, start ICH- ?

6.      6. What 4 letter words, if any, start CHI- ?

7.      7. What 4 letter words, if any, start OCH- ?

 

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ACH-  ACHE, ACHY

 

CHA- CHAD, CHAI, CHAL, CHAM, CHAO, CHAP, CHAR, CHAS, CHAT, CHAV, CHAW, CHAY

 

ECH- ECHE, ECHO, ECHT

 

CHE- CHEF, CHEM, CHER, CHEW, CHEZ

 

ICH- ICHS

 

CHI-CHIA, CHIB, CHIC, CHID, CHIK, CHIN, CHIP, CHIS, CHIT, CHIV, CHIZ

 

OCH- OCHE

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Using the letters JANUARY can you find 9 moves on the attached board that score between 31 and 50 points.  2 of the 7 moves are a little obscure, so try to find at least 5-6 answers.
There is also an obscure move that scores 30 points and another that scores 52 - well done if you find these too!
 
 
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RAJA 38  C13 across
RUNNY 38 C3 across
JAY 35 C13 across
YAWNER 36 D5 across
JAW 36 D5 across
JOY 34 G7 across
RAJ 34 C13 across
JNANA 34 C3 across
JURY 31 G9 across
 
 
JANNY 52 C3 across
NAYWORDS 30 a14 across
 

 

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Below are 36 3 letter words - can you concatenate them into 12 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.

 

 

ANA                    AND                    ATT

BIO                      BOO                    BUT

CHE                    CON                   COR

DAS                     DOG                   DUR

ESS                      HIP                      ISM

ITA                       KIS                       MAT

MIC                     MIL                      NEW

OYS                     PER                     PRO

RAM                    RED                     RIA

RIB                      ROC                    SAG

SPA                     TEL                      TIC

UTE                     WAS                    ZIN

 

 

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ANA CON DAS

ATT RIB UTE

BOO ZIN ESS

BUT CHE RED

COR DUR OYS

DOG MAT ISM

KIS SAG RAM

MIL ITA RIA

MIC ROC HIP

NEW SPA PER

PRO BIO TIC

WAS TEL AND

       

                

                                         

                                          

                                            

                                        

                                

                                                                               

                     

 

 

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As the grey clouds of November morph into the twinkling lights of December, its quiz time!

 

What 4 or 5 letter words can you make from the 6 letters NOVDEC ?

There are 21 to find, about half are common place.

 

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CODEN CONED COVED COVEN

DEVON DOVEN

CODE COED COND CONE COVE

DECO DEVO DOEN DONE DOVE

ECOD

NODE

ONCE OVEN

VEND

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