Trans Tasman Victory

New Zealand won the biannual test against Australia by 165 games to 123. Well done everyone.

A Grade Challenge

Because all the A Graders have been working very hard either playing in or helping to organise the Trans-Tasman they have earned a week off trying to unscramble anagrams and instead get a list of a few unusual words

I talked myself out of the best play of KATANA. I was worried the first A might be an I. A katana is a long, single edged, Japanese sword. Here are the other 6 letter words with K and three A’s - except for a couple which have a second K

The only challenge for the A Graders is to learn these words well enough that they don’t chicken out of playing one as I did!

ABAKAS – Manilla hemp plants

AKATEA – A NZ vine with white flowers

AKHARA – A Hindi word for a gymnasium

ALASKA – A kind of dessert

JATAKA – The birth story of Buddha

KAAMAS – Large South African antelopes

KABALA – Jewish doctrine based on hidden meanings in the bible

KABAYA – A cotton jacket

KAMALA – East Indian tree

MARAKA – The unit of currency in Bosnia-Herzegovina

PATAKA – A building on stilts used to store food

B and C Grade Study List

SATIRE, RETINA and ANTIES are the most common study lists for bingo hunters, but today’s list is a bit different. Not only does it not even contain an E, but I am not even sure what to call it. The only valid 6 letter word is OSTIAL which doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue and if you knew what it meant you were one up on me! So why this list? There are three reasons.

1.    It contains common letters

2. It makes 20 bingos with 12 different letters.

3.    I missed OSTIAL + T this weekend. This is my penance

A – SOLATIA. Compensation given for suffering

B – OBLASTI. Political subdivision in Russia

C – CITOLAS, Pear shaped guitars

   – STOICAL. Indifference to pleasure or pain

E – ISOLATE. To set apart from others

G – GALIOTS. Small Mediterranean boats 

 – LATIGOS. Straps used to fasten a saddle

   – SALIGOT. The water chestnut

M – SOMITAL. Relating to part of a vertebrate embryo

N – LATINOS. Male Latin American

   – TALIONS. A punishment which is identical to the crime

P – APOSTIL. A note in the margin

   – TOPSAIL. A sail near the top of the mast

R – ORALIST. Practices ORALISM, a method of teaching the deaf

   – RIALTOS. Theatrical districts

   – SLIOTAR. The ball used to play hurling

   – TAILORS. Fits clothes

T – ALTOIST. Someone who plays the alto saxophone

U – OUTSAIL. To surpass in sailing

X – OXTAILS. The tail of an ox. Especially used in soup