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Handful #9 answer

Sunday, 18 October 2026

The seven tiles

R1T1S1E1R1O1U2

The best three words: 69 points

  1. ROUTERS 23 points
  2. TOURERS 23 points
  3. TROUSER 23 points

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

Other high scorers

OUSTER 13ROUSER 13ROUTER 13ROUTES 13SOURER 13

There were 82 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.

3 players took part on the day.

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