Glendurgan maze, Cornwall.

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Word Games

A collection of puzzles with words and letters. Make words from the letters of a nine-letter-word, or go against the clock in my Honeycomb Game.

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Add Vowels

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

2

Honeycomb Game

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.

3

High Tiles

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

4

Doublets

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

5

Polywords

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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?

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Crosswords

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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.