Three letter words ending in the letters OB are quite often played because they can score moderately well for a 3 letter word and because almost all of them are ordinary words that everybody knows. Since they are so common we should know all the letters that go after them. Certainly someone like myself should know, but at club last night I came up with a dud extension that was correctly challenged off, so this blog is my own effort to try to make sure I don’t make the same mi

At the tournament today a very experienced A Grade player challenged one of the words in the quiz today. That surprised me a little because although it was an unusual word it was very high probability letters. The only thing that made it slightly lower probability was having two L's. That was the inspiration for the following quiz of high prob 8 letter words with a double L. AEEILLNT AEEILLRT AEILLRTU AEILLNOR EILLORTT AILLORTT (This one has two anagrams) AEELLRRT EILLNOTU