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Handful #26 answer

Wednesday, 4 November 2026

The seven tiles

E1R1N1W4A1D2P3

The best three words: 74 points

  1. PRAWNED 28 points
  2. PREDAWN 28 points
  3. PAWNED 18 points

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

Other high scorers

WARPED 18ENWRAP 17WANDER 16WARDEN 16WARNED 16

There were 97 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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