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Handful #14 answer

Friday, 23 October 2026

The seven tiles

U2S1R1R1E1I1C3

The best three words: 65 points

  1. CRUISER 25 points
  2. CURRIES 25 points
  3. CIRRUS 15 points

Seven-letter words using every tile: CRUISER, CURRIES, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.

Other high scorers

CRUISE 15CURERS 15CURIES 15RECURS 15CRIERS 14

There were 53 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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