Polywords

Curve

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

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Curve

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A former NER A8 4-6-2T waits at Bishop Auckland station in 1953, ready to take the 14.02 Sunderland to Middleton-in-Teesdale (via Durham) train on to its final destination. This journey is no longer possible by train. The line from Sunderland to Durham is gone, as is the sharp curve at Ferryhill taking trains from Durham to Bishop Auckland. The old South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway connecting Bishop to Barnard Castle – home to the magnificent French palace Bowes Museum and Home Page – had closed by 1962, and with it the 8¾-mile spur to tourist hotspot Middleton-in-Teesdale. The route would make a fortune today, but that’s nationalisation.

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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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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 Earl. Liver. Rich.

2 Archive. Lace. Real.

3 Hair. Hear. Veal.

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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