Up, Up and Away
Last week Lawson played a great Bingo – UPWAFTS. I had a suspicion that it was right, but had to challenge anyway. Fortunately for me Lawson had to take the last two tiles out of the bag and one of them was an unplayable Q. So the story did not have a happy ending, at least not for Lawson
A Grade Challenge
Can you unscramble these 7 letter words with U and P? Answers are at the end
A D H I P N U
A E E L P T U
A L M N P S U
E I M N P T U
B O P S S T U
This is the A grade challenge. You didn’t expect me to make them easy by choosing words that started with the letters UP did you?
B & C Grade Learning List
You probably won’t get to play a bingo starting with UP like Lawson, but we will have a look at some shorter UP words you might not have thought of.
UPBY A little further on. You can add an E for UPBYE
UPDO An upswept hairdo.
Note that it does NOT mean to do something up. It is a noun, so UPDOS is ok, but NOT updoes or updoing. Just while we are on the subject - wouldn’t UPSWEPT be a great bingo to spot?!
UPGO To go up
UPSY A boisterous drinking party
This has two alternate spellings – UPSEY and UPSEE
UPTA Australian slang for poor quality. Also spelled UPTER
UPBOW A type of stroke playing a stringed instrument
UPDRY To dry something completely
UPEND To turn something over. A good hook for PEND
UPJET To spout up
UPLAY To hoard. A good hook is PLAY is on the board
UPLED Past tense of UPLEAD – to lead up. More good hooks
UPLIT Past tense of UPLIGHT
UPRAN Past tense of UPRUN – to run up
UPTAK A Scottish pronunciation of UPTAKE
UPTIE To tie up
Answers to A Grade Challenge
DAUPHIN The eldest son of a French King
EPAULET A shoulder badge worn by a military officer
SUNLAMP A lamp that radiates ultraviolet rays
PINETUM A plantation of pine trees – Plural PINETA
POSTBUS A small bus for mail and passengers
(Unlucky if you tried BUS STOP but that has to be two words)
Happy Scrabbling Patrick
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