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Handful #21 answer

Friday, 30 October 2026

The seven tiles

D2E1F4F4L2U2R1

The best three words: 73 points

  1. RUFFLED 31 points
  2. DUFFEL 21 points
  3. LUFFED 21 points

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

Other high scorers

DUFFER 20RUFFED 20RUFFLE 20FURLED 18DUFF 13

There were 36 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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