Sometimes I do a blog to reinforce an area of my own knowledge where I have been found wanting. In this case I was playing a game where my opponent played the word PALK. I wasn’t sure about it, but it seemed vaguely familiar so I didn’t challenge. Later in the game I put an S on it and PALKS was challenged off. When checking later I discovered that PALK wasn’t a word in the first place. That cost me the game, so the least I could do was make sure it didn’t cost me a valuable

Thank you to Liz Fagerlund who contributed the quiz below - (Patrick) In the first round of the “Virtual World Scrabble Cup” being played on ISC, Patrick was one of the 5 NZ players. NZ played Ireland. In one of his games Patrick played AIRBASE, a not too difficult 7 letter word for him. He probably also knew that it had an anagram - (ARABISE) There are a lot of words that end with BASE – see how many you can find: 1 letter in front – ABASE (done for you – just too easy!) 2 l

AINOP = __________ AINOP + A = __________ ADILU = __________ ADILU + A = __________ ADILU + E = __________ AALMU = __________ AALMU + I = __________ ELOUV = __________ ELOVU + E = __________ AABIL = __________ AABIL + E = __________ AABIL + U = __________ ADMOU = __________ ADMOU + A = __________ AGORU = __________ AGORU + E = __________ AGORU + I = __________ HIORU = __________ HIORU + O = __________