How many 7 letter words can you make from ANPTU and two blanks? There are 32 valid answers, but it would be far too tough to ask you to find them all. Instead see if you can find a quarter of them. Your target is 8 words. Last week I got away with a dud word. My rack was an uninspiring ANNNPTU but there was such a good score available on the board for UNTAP that I took a chance on it even though it still left NN as my leave. Fortunately my opponent didn’t think twice about it

Here are another 5 racks taken at random from a bag of tiles D E I O R T X A A B I N O Y E I I R S V W D D I R T T U A B E I L N W This is the same format as last week’s blog which received several positive comments, so I thought I would give it another go. However I will try to do something different next week. The idea is to discuss real life type situations when it is your turn to go first. There is no agenda with

E I O P V W Y A E I I O O R C D E G G R T A E K N N O S A D D E E R X Those are 5 racks that I have just taken at random from a bag of tiles. The only thing that was not random was that I decided not to include any rack with a blank. The idea is to discuss real life type situations when it is you turn to go first. There is no agenda with me deciding what words I want to talk about. It is just whatever letters I pulle