Make as many words of four letters of more from the letters you are given, using each letter just once. Can you beat our score? What is the nine-letter word?

Several of NL Clay’s exercises asked pupils to find apt synonyms or reduce an ungainly phrase to a single word. Our crosswords follow the same approach.

Make as many words as you can from seven letters. What’s your highest scoring word?

Change one word into another word, a letter at a time. See if you can use fewer steps than we did.

Make words using letters from adjacent cells in a ‘honeycomb’. Increase your score with letters such as J and Q, and letters carrying bonus points.

See how many words you can make just by adding vowels to these consonants.