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Handful #19 answer

Wednesday, 28 October 2026

The seven tiles

E1D2L2H3N1A1D2

The best three words: 59 points

  1. HANDLED 27 points
  2. HANDED 16 points
  3. HANDLE 16 points

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

Other high scorers

DANDLE 15LANDED 15HALED 12ADDLE 11DEDAL 11

There were 46 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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