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Handful #27 answer

Thursday, 5 November 2026

The seven tiles

L2N1U2I1P3L2G3

The best three words: 65 points

  1. PULLING 29 points
  2. PLUGIN 18 points
  3. PULING 18 points

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

Other high scorers

LUNGI 12LUPIN 12GULP 11PLUG 11GULL 10

There were 30 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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