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Handful #10 answer

Monday, 19 October 2026

The seven tiles

E1A1L2A1P3P3R1

The best three words: 61 points

  1. APPAREL 27 points
  2. APPEAL 17 points
  3. RAPPEL 17 points

The seven-letter word using every tile was APPAREL, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.

Other high scorers

APPEAR 16EARLAP 15APPAL 13APPEL 13APPLE 13

There were 48 valid words of three letters or more in these tiles. A word scores the sum of its tile values plus a length bonus (4 letters +1, 5 letters +3, 6 letters +6, 7 letters +15), so one long word usually beats several short ones.

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