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Handful #30 answer

Sunday, 8 November 2026

The seven tiles

A1R1Y4E1L2H3T1

The best three words: 74 points

  1. EARTHLY 28 points
  2. LATHERY 28 points
  3. 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.

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