Handful #30 answer
Sunday, 8 November 2026
The seven tiles
A1R1Y4E1L2H3T1
The best three words: 74 points
- EARTHLY 28 points
- LATHERY 28 points
- HYETAL 18 points
Seven-letter words using every tile: EARTHLY, LATHERY, which earns the 15-point length bonus on top of its tile values.
Other high scorers
EARTHY 17HEARTY 17LYRATE 16REALTY 16HALTER 15
There were 103 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.
9 players took part on the day.
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