Handful #28 answer
Friday, 6 November 2026
The seven tiles
E1R1T1K5O1S1D2
The best three words: 60 points
- STROKED 27 points
- STOKED 17 points
- STOKER 16 points
The seven-letter word using every tile was STROKED, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.
Other high scorers
STROKE 16DORKS 13DOTERS 13SORTED 13STORED 13
There were 81 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.
28 players took part on the day.
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