How many 7 or 8 letter words that have the ending –WISE can you think of? You might be surprised by how many there are. E-I-S are common letters to get on your rack. You should consider this possibility whenever there is a W to go with them. Write down your words and compare them with the list at the end of this blog. While you consider that challenge I will give you 20 unrelated words all including the letter W. Hopefully there will be some that will be useful for you. EEEW

I was shot at the end of an internet game by a word I didn’t know. My opponent won the game by playing an 8 letter word that ended in SHOT. I thought that was an unusual ending for a bonus word. Certainly it isn’t one you immediately think of, such as –IER, -ING, -IEST. Checking after the game revealed that there are 15 words that fit this pattern: _ _ _ _ S H O T Some of them have letters that are reasonably common, so perhaps this ending should be used more of

An interesting situation that occurred in a game I played recently. The first play was ELEGY starting in the middle square. I was lucky that they played a G, because with ACEIMNN I could only think of MENACING. My opponent then played ZOOM from the Triple Word Square at the top middle of the board to the M that I had just played. That left me wondering what words I could play to extend ZOOM across to the corner of the board. After the game I looked it up and found that there

Snollygosters is a real word. Although it may be hard to play it at scrabble, it would be legal. I guess if someone played GOSTERS, (which means to laugh uncontrollably) then both of you would crack up completely if it was extended to SNOLLYGOSTERS. Apparently a snollygoster is a shrewd, dishonest person, particularly a politician. Wouldn’t it be fun to go to the beehive and shout “you’re all a bunch of snollygosters”? However you came here to learn some words for scrabble. T