Polywords

Eventide

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

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Eventide

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Twilight falls over Palmahim beach, just south of Tel Aviv in Israel.

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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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deep deeper deer deprive derive derv dire dive diver drier drip drive driver eerie eerier eider epee erred ever peed peer peered peeve peeved peri perv pied pier pride pried reed reprieve reprieved revere revered reverie ride rider ripe riper river veep veer veered vied viper
reprieve deprive derive revere pride viper river eerie drier erred drive dire dive ripe veer deer vied deep ride reed ever peer pier
deep deeper deer deprive derive derv dire dive diver drier drip drive driver eerie eerier eider epee erred ever peed peer peered peeve peeved peri perv pied pier pride pried reed reprieve reprieved revere revered reverie ride rider ripe riper river veep veer veered vied viper

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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 Ever. Reed. Reprieve.

2 Derive. Eerie. Err.

3 Pride. Ride. Vie.

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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