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Published: 19 September 2020

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There are 28 3 letter words containing both an A and an O.

How many do you know ?

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B : ABO, BAO, BOA, OBA

C : OCA

D : ADO, ODA

F : OAF

G : AGO, GOA

H : HAO, HOA

K : KOA, OAK, OKA

M : MOA, OMA

P : APO, OPA, POA

R : OAR, ORA

T : OAT, TAO

V : AVO, OVA

Z : AZO, ZOA

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Published: 14 September 2020

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Below are 10 racks of tiles, each containing an H.

Assuming each is your opening rack in a game, what is the highest score you can achieve with each rack. Most of the highest answers are fairly everyday words - all use the H !

A H I O R T X

E G H O T T U

A H I I P R S

A H I O O U Y

D E E H R S U

H M P R S T Y 

A I H K L O U

A B H I P O X

A C H J O T Y

C D E H S T Y

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THORAX - 48

GHETTO - 28

AIRSHIP - 82

YAHOO - 30

USHERED - 80

MYTHS - 32

HAIKU - 32

PHOBIA - 34

YACHT - 34

SCYTHED - 90

Well done if you got more than 5 ! 

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Published: 04 September 2020

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Autumn appears to be here.

So to celebrate (!) what are the 3, 4 and 5 letter words you can from the letters in AUTUMN ?

There 18 3 letter words,  8   4 letter words and   1  5 letter word.

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3 letter words :

AMU   ANT

MAN   MAT    MNA  MUN   MUT

NAM   NAT    NUT

TAM    TAN   TAU   TUM    TUN

UTA    UMU   UTU

4 letter words :

AUNT

MAUN    MAUT   MUNT

NAMU

TUAN      TUNA

UNAU

5 letter word

MUNTU

Well done if you got more 13 - exceeding well done if you got all the 3 letter words! 

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Its a Bank Holiday weekend (!) and this week's quiz is something a bit different and not really Scrabble related. 

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.

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 It may be that you can combine some of the 3 letter words to make different 9 letter words, so you may need to to 'unpick' some answers to get a full 20 word solution.  (Note two words are duplicated below. They appear in different 9 letter words).

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