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Handful #22 answer

Saturday, 31 October 2026

The seven tiles

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The best three words: 70 points

  1. CRUMBLE 31 points
  2. CUMBER 20 points
  3. LUMBER 19 points

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

Other high scorers

RUMBLE 19CRUMB 16UMBEL 15BRUME 14CUBER 14

There were 52 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.

11 players took part on the day.

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