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Answers to problems posed in Across The Board Annotated game: (1) The three eights with CIILOTY are BIOLYTIC, DOCILITY and SOLICITY. (2) The 7-letter word with ACEGIOP is APOGEIC. (3) The three sevens with AELRSTW are WARSTLE, WASTREL and WRASTLE. (4) EEGHIR goes with A, D, N and W to form HIREAGE, HEDGIER, REHINGE, and REWEIGH/WEIGHER (5) The 7-letter word with ADEKORT is TROAKED. A Tempting Setup The winning play is MOST at a12a for 34, giving me a 453-448 lead. After the A pick-up, I have out-plays at n7d with RAND, or k11d with DINAR. Mark’s best play is ATILT at n6d for 18, but after DINAR I win 467-464. An Unexpected Opening Play YA at m12a for 5 - you have the last hooks for YA (R and W). Your rack leave of WARIES combines with 70% of the unseen letters to make a playable bonus: • E = WEARIES • I = AIRWISE • L = SWALIER/WAILERS • T = WAITERS/WAISTER/WASTRIE Your opponent will probably have to try and block this threat, if at all possible, for example with SAT at n11d. If the opponent can’t, and has to settle for a Z score, then he will empty the bag and you will have the endgame advantage and a bonus, or at worst a high-scoring play involving YAW which might still give you a chance of the win. HB HOLIDAYS SCRABBLE HOLIDAYS 2004/5 25 - 28 June Ramada Jarvis, Caledonian, Ayr 23 - 26 July Ramada Jarvis, Bingley 3-6 September Clifton Hill Hotel, Penrith 1 - 4 October Best Western Park Lodge Hotel, Falkirk 17 - 23 October Hotel Le Relais Alpin, Switzerland 29 Oct - I Nov Cairn Hotel, Harrogate 12-15 November Standish Moat House, Wigan 4 - 11 February Hotel Sol, Magalluf, Majorca Enquiries to Viv Beckmann 01912 731705 howzatvb@gotadsl.co.uk 32 Pictured here with his bride Wendy, Brian Cappalletto, former WSC champion and arguably the worlds finest Scrabble player, was married on May 8th. EDGEWAYS Hook Trains In this puzzle, each word has a number of hooks on each end. Fill in each space with the one letter that is both an end-hook for the word preceding it and a front-hook for the word succeeding it. For example: PERFECT [ ] RING [ ] YENS PERFECT takes A, I, O and S after it; RING takes B, E, I and W before it. I is the only letter common to both lists, to make PERFECTI and IRING, so I is the answer here. Since S is the only letter that hooks onto RING, the next answer must be S, making RINGS and SYENS. Fill in the hook trains below. In each case there is only one right answer, and no letter is used more than once in either puzzle. (a) UNCLE [ ] EIGHT [ ] UNDER [ ] AUNT (b) PINK [ ] BET [ ] ARE [ ] DOS [ ] OR [ ] ACER [ ] RED Romeo and Juliet Tango in India Which seven letters of the phonetic alphabet are not in OSWI? Anananagrams Part XXIII How many words of 2 or more letters can you make from this opening rack? Compiled by Ross Mackenzie (Puzzle solutions on inside back cover) 33 “...but Romeo, I just want to dance”
Forgotten Fives (a word list contribution from David Sutton) Most players seem relatively weak on their knowledge on their five-letter words. Easy to understand why: the typical aspiring player learns the twos, threes and some of the fours, then rushes on to study the high-probability six- and seven-letter bonus stems, meaning to return to the uncommoner fives in due course, but somehow never quite gets round to learning any more of them than a few useful vowel dumps and a selection of the JQXZ words. This is a pity. The bonus sevens and eights might be the knockdown blows of Scrabble, but the fives are the short-range body punches that wear an opponent down. Below are fifty five-letter words that have two things in common: they are all medium probability, containing at least one three or four pointer, and they are all words that I have played in recent months against opponents at my local West Berks club and which they (mistrustful lot that they are) have challenged. How many would you have challenged? And how confident are you of the hooks? My opponents have, for example, tried -S hooks on CHODE, PEART and WAIDE. This is not to be recommended! ABLOW ALEFT BECAP BIFID BIGAE BLAUD BONIE CHODE CUBEB CURDY DONAH DOUMA FUGIO GEYAN GIBUS GLEEK GREWS HALON HEROE HOWBE ILIUM KYANG LINDY METIF MOYLE MUDGE MUNGO MURRY NEAFE NOILY PEART PIERT SAYID SCUTA SOILY SOWAR SPROD SWELT SWIRE TAMAL TUPEK VACUA VIMEN VINCA VITTA VIVAT WAIDE WEFTE WILED YERBA First and last Complete the following words, given just the length of the word and the first and last letters. In each case there is only one answer: (a) E __ M (3 letters) Y __ __ O (4 letters) V __ __ __ B (5 letters) Z __ __ __ __ P (6 letters) T __ __ __ __ __ W (7 letters) A __ __ __ __ __ __ W (8 letters) V __ __ __ __ __ __ __ K (9 letters) 34 Now complete the following words, given just the first and last letter. This time you have to work out the number of letters yourself! Again, there is only one answer in each case. (b) A ____________ J T ____________ V D ____________ U X ____________ G V ____________ F Phoney Goings On (3) (contributed by David Sutton) My friend Jeremiah Wanwordy, whose idiosyncratic approach to Scrabble involves learning everything that is not a word on the grounds that whatever then remains on his rack, however improbable, must be a valid play, has recently been entranced to discover that almost any word can be transformed into a non-word by the addition of almost any letter on the front of it, and has been spending much time on the study of these ‘antihooks’, as he terms them. I happened to be glancing at one of his rather thick notebooks on the subject , and noticed that once again he has made a number of mistakes and some of his more spectacular antihooks are in fact perfectly valid. Can you put him right? In each case, one of the three words is genuine. ANTELOPE CANTELOPE a kind of melon GANTELOPE an armoured glove PANTELOPE a mediaeval clown, a buffoon ACONITE BACONITE one who believes that Shakespeare’s plays were written by Bacon RACONITE a radar control beacon TACONITE a type of iron-bearing rock IMPLEMENT DIMPLEMENT the state of being dimpled PIMPLEMENT a small pimple SIMPLEMENT a medicinal herb INDIGO BINDIGO a vagabond who carries his possessions in a bundle MINDIGO a large Canadian lake fish WINDIGO a mythical monster of American Indian legend RABBIT DRABBIT a low-class wench, a slattern FRABBIT cross, peevish GRABBIT a hand-tool, a kind of wrench URSIFORM BURSIFORM shaped like a purse or pouch CURSIFORM of earthworks, having a curved shape NURSIFORM (US) a nurse’s uniform 35
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