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Handful #8 answer

Saturday, 17 October 2026

The seven tiles

A1N1E1R1M3O1F4

The best three words: 71 points

  1. FORAMEN 27 points
  2. FOREMAN 27 points
  3. FOEMAN 17 points

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

Other high scorers

FORMAE 17ENAMOR 14MOANER 14FORME 13FRAME 13

There were 76 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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