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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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A simple quiz this month.

What are the 12 3 letter words with a 'C' as the middle letter ?

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ACE

ACH

ACT

 

ECH

ECO

ECU

 

ICE

ICH

ICK

ICY

 

OCA

OCH

 

 

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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Alphagram

 

Answer

 

Body Part

AADEHWY

 

HEADWAY

 

HEAD

ABHILNO

 

HOBNAIL

 

NAIL

ACDEHIR

 

CHAIRED

 

HAIR

ACEEKNP

 

KNEECAP

 

KNEE

ACEFRSU

 

SURFACE

 

FACE

AHMNORY

 

HARMONY

 

ARM

BBEIRRY

 

BRIBERY

 

RIB

CEEGLLO

 

COLLEGE

 

LEG

CILOPSW

 

COWSLIP

 

LIP

DEFLOOT

 

FOOTLED

 

FOOT

EEEHILW

 

WHEELIE

 

HEEL

EEGRSTY

 

GREYEST

 

EYE

EGLNPRU

 

PLUNGER

 

LUNG

EHIPPTW

 

WHIPPET

 

HIP

Sometimes its useful to have a well-known word as the basis of spotting other words. People's names and place names are good for this.

This month's quiz :  What are the 7 letter anagrams of THAMES + a blank ?

There are 12 in total, 5 are in every day English, the rest are obscure.

(As its a bank holiday, to solve the 5 easy ones you will need C, I, L, N and R). (For the harder 7 you will need A, A, E, N, S, T and U)

 

 

 

As an aside - do you know all the 6 anagrams of READING? 

 

What about the 6 anagrams of STAINES  (note STAINES is not  a word) ?

 

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THAMES easy :

MATCHES  ATHEISM  HAMLETS  ANTHEMS  HAMSTER

 

 

THAMES hard :

ATHAMES  HAMATES  MEATHES  HETMANS  SMEATHS  SHMATTE HUMATES

 

 

 

READING anagrams :

AREDING  DEARING  DERAIGN  EARDING  GRADINE GRAINED   +READING

 

 

STAINES anagrams :

ENTASIS NASTIES  SEITANS  SESTINA  TANSIES  TISANES

 

 

 

Something a bit different this month..

 

Below are 16 3 letter words, and 16 4 letter words.

Pair a 3 letter word with a 4 letter word to make a 7 letter word.

The letters in the 3 and 4 letters must remain in the same order (ie do not anagram them!).

Sometimes the 3 letter word makes the start of the 7 letter word, sometimes the 4 letter word.

e.g LULL + ABY makes LULLABY.

Can you make the other 15 7 letter words ?

ABY BAND
ARM BELL
BOW CHIC
BRA GENE
CAR GENT
COW HORN
EEL LING
FOG LULL
HOG RAIN
KEN SEED
LEG SPAR
LIN TOPS
OIL VERY
REF WART
SIS WASH
TAN WORK

 

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ARM   BAND
BOW   LING
BRA   VERY
CAR   WASH
CHIC   KEN
COW   BELL
FOG   HORN
GENE   SIS
GENT   EEL
LEG   WORK
LIN   SEED
LULL   ABY
REF   RAIN
SPAR   TAN
TOPS   OIL
WART   HOG