But this all depends on chance, and your mental lexicon. If you get rid of C, T and T, there's a possibility of being able to spell 885 seven-letter words and over 1,500 eight-letter words. There are 184 seven-letter words that you can make if you get the right combination of tiles from the bag, and depending on what your opponent plays, you might be able to spell one of 400 eight-letter words with the right letters. You could exchange the letters C and T and pass your turn, hoping to get some better letters. You should aim to get at least a 20-point score on the first turn, otherwise you should look into exchanging or just passing. The highest possible score for a word you can play (TACT or TALC) will only be 12 points. What's your first move?Ī1: The best option is to pass your turn. Q1: You have the first move and you have ACCLTT? on your rack. Last Week's SolutionĪnd here's the answer for last week's Scrabble Challenge #11: Spoiler Alert: Comments below may reveal answers, so figure it out first before scrolling all of the way down! Here's a hint… there's one that's a noun in both the OSPD4 and CSW12, and another that's a noun in just the CSW12. Bonus points for anyone who can find additional bingos. In the ten puzzles below, simply unscramble the letters to spell out a seven-letter bingo word that is listed in the OSPD4 as a derivative, meaning it won't be easy to find unless you're looking for the root word in the dictionary. This week's puzzles are a little easier than some of the previous ones. That's why it's best to use the Collins Scrabble Checker or a program like Zyzzyva, which lets you load different lexicons including OSPD4, OWL2, CSW12, etc. So it seems the OSPD4 online only provides search capabilities for main entries and root words with their inflected forms, not their derivatives. It's listed after the definition provided, but it is not in bold. However, for some reason the run-on entry was left out of the search equation. So, you can search for POKE, POKED, POKING and POKES and it will take you to the main entry POKE which has all of the words listed in boldface type. Using the online version, you can search for anything that's bold EXCEPT the run-on entries. S a maneuver for gaining an objective TACTICAL adj You have to look up the root word for all of them, just like. And you won't find them on the online version, either. If you looked up the words CAUDALLY, EXEQUIAL, and POKABLE in the print version, looking for them directly, you won't find them. POKE v POKED, POKING, POKES to push or prod POKABLE adj Run-on entries are not defined since their meanings are readily derivable from the meaning of the root word.ĮXEQUY n pl. These are located on the same line as the root word, also in boldface type, after the brief definition. To make everything easier to find and use on the Scrabble board, the print equivalent of the OSPD4 lists main entries in boldface type, as well as all inflected forms of the main entries listed after the parts of speech ( n, v, adj, adv, etc.).Īside from that, there's something called "run-on" entries, which are one or more derivatives of a root word that have a different part-of-speech label.
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