Handful #8 answer
Saturday, 17 October 2026
The seven tiles
A1N1E1R1M3O1F4
The best three words: 71 points
- FORAMEN 27 points
- FOREMAN 27 points
- 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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