I had a rude shock in a game recently. In an endgame I could have made the word SWAMP out to the edge of the board, but instead my choice was something that I thought was a cunning play. All of the nine I's had gone so my opponent could not play SWAMI so I just played SWAM leaving myself to get a very nice score for my P on the next turn. Imagine the shock when my opponent scored 59 for the word VERY using the Y to also make the word SWAMY. I didn't know that alternative spel

In a game on Monday it was quite surprising to be queried over putting an R on the end of SKY to make SKYR. However, on reflection words that end with Y often feel as though they do not take any extensions. In fact SKY can also be extended to SKYF as well. Also, look out for an E at the other end to make ESKY. For this blog I thought I would focus on the words DISMAY and ALKY (an alcoholic). While ALKY takes two front hooks to make BALKY and TALKY, this blog is about what the

I learned a new word when my opponent played it recently. Since it was an 8 letter word starting with J and finishing with ING I had a look to see how many words fitted into that pattern. There are 30. I usually like to do shorter lists than that for these blogs, but you must already know JANGLING, JAUNTING, JELLYING, JIGGLING, JEWELING, JINGLING, JOGGLING, JOINTING, JOLLYING, JOSTLING, JOUSTING, JUGGLING and JUMBLING. That just leaves a more manageable 17, and you probably k