Polywords

Icy

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

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Icy

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The ‘Chinese bridge’ over the River Croome in Croome Landscape Park, midway between Great Malvern and Pershore in Worcestershire.

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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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achy ahoy airy arch archly cagily cargo carol chair char chary choir choral ciao cigar clay clog coal coil coir cola coral corgi crag gaily gaol garlic girl girly giro glory goal gory grail gray gyro hail hair hairy halo hiya hoar hoary holy lacy lair larch largo liar lira loch loci logic lyric oily oligarch oligarchy oral orgy racily racy rail rich richly roach roil royal yoga yogi yogic
garlic corgi gaily lyric larch logic glory coral choir royal chair carol cargo cigar lair yoga liar loch oily rail rich oral racy coal clog coil clay ahoy airy arch crag gaol hair hail halo hoar girl goal holy
achy ahoy airy arch archly cagily cargo carol chair char chary choir choral ciao cigar clay clog coal coil coir cola coral corgi crag gaily gaol garlic girl girly giro glory goal gory grail gray gyro hail hair hairy halo hiya hoar hoary holy lacy lair larch largo liar lira loch loci logic lyric oily oligarch oligarchy oral orgy racily racy rail rich richly roach roil royal yoga yogi yogic

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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 Clay. Goal. Oral.

2 Girl. Loch. Logic.

3 Cargo. Carol. Jail.

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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