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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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Earlier this year we published a series of articles showing different ways to learn words.
Another method is to take a discrete set of words and learn them. This month we will publish 4 discrete alphabet sets for you to learn.
Many of the 'letters' are fairly well known, but there may be a gem or two for you to unearth! In future we will study the Hebrew, Arabic and Greek alphabets.
Firstly the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Here all the words represent a letter from the English language. A couple of the letters have variant spellings this is to help non-English speakers pronounce the word correctly. (For example, the French would typically pronounce 'Juliet' as "Julie-AY" but will pronounce the final 't' sound when a second 't' is added to the end of the word)
Unless otherwise stated ALL words listed below are valid in Scrabble.
Alpha or Alfa
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet or Juliett (JULIET is valid, JULIETT is not)
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray or Xray (XRAY is valid, X-RAY is not)
Yankee
Zulu
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Our apologies.
Since our last puzzle, "ITS HOT" based on the hot weather we were experiencing then, Summer seems to have disappeared. We clearly jinxed it. Sorry.
So as a valiant attempt to bring it back again....
What are the 7 letter words you can make with ITSWET and a blank ?
There are quite a few. A reasonable number to find would be between 5 and 10, but there are a few obscure ones too...
Answers below.
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With an A, ITSWET makes TAWIEST, TWAITES
With a D you can make DEWITTS and TWISTED
With an E, WETTIES.
With an H you can make TEWHITS, WETTISH, WHITEST
With a N ENTWIST and TWINSET
With an O, TOWIEST.
With an R, RETWIST, TWISTER, WITTERS
and with a U - WETSUIT.
15 words in all. Well done if you got more than 10.
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