Polywords

Beam

Make as many words as you can from just nine letters. Can you beat our score?

© Gibraltar Caving Unit, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Beam

© Gibraltar Caving Unit, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0. Source
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Looking out towards the sunrise from inside Goats Hair Twin Caves on the eastern side of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory in the Mediterranean. Gibraltar was captured in 1704 during Home Page (1702-1713), and officially ceded to Britain at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.

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able amble bale ball balm beam bell belle blame label lama lamb lame llama male mall malleable meal
label llama belle blame amble lamb mall male lame able bell balm ball bale meal
able amble bale ball balm beam bell belle blame label lama lamb lame llama male mall malleable meal

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Practice

Spinners Find in Think and Speak

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1 Bale. Lamb. Mall.

2 Ball. Bell. Meal.

3 Blame. Label. Male.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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