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

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One of four lions at the Venetian Arsenal, two of which were looted from Athens by Francesco Morosini in 1687, during the Great Turkish War. One of the lions is especially remarkable for the Norse runes scratched into it, dating back to the time of the Norman Invasion in 1066, a memorial to a fallen warrior. See Home Page for more information.

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© Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of four lions at the Venetian Arsenal, two of which were looted from Athens by Francesco Morosini in 1687, during the Great Turkish War. One of the lions is especially remarkable for the Norse runes scratched into it, dating back to the time of the Norman Invasion in 1066, a memorial to a fallen warrior. See Home Page for more information.

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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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acne aeon agile alien align aloe alone along angel angelic angle anon cage cane canine caning canoe canoeing canon ciao cine clan clang clean cleaning cling clog clone cloning coal coil coin coinage cola cone conga congeal congenial coning elan gain gale gaol genial glace glance glean glen goal goalie gone gonna icon inane ingle lace lacing lain lance lancing lane lean leaning legion lice lien line linen ling lingo lino lion loan loaning loci logic loin lone long nail neon nice nine none ocean ogle oilcan once online
congeal angelic coinage online legion glance genial canine align logic canon inane alien glean angel angle along linen clean clone canoe ocean alone agile clang lance cling lice line none nine ogle once nice loan lone long nail lion icon coin cone cane cage coil coal clan clog lace gone lain lane lean goal glen gain gale
acne aeon agile alien align aloe alone along angel angelic angle anon cage cane canine caning canoe canoeing canon ciao cine clan clang clean cleaning cling clog clone cloning coal coil coin coinage cola cone conga congeal congenial coning elan gain gale gaol genial glace glance glean glen goal goalie gone gonna icon inane ingle lace lacing lain lance lancing lane lean leaning legion lice lien line linen ling lingo lino lion loan loaning loci logic loin lone long nail neon nice nine none ocean ogle oilcan once online

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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 Angle. Lie. Lion.

2 Alone. Angel. Glean.

3 Align. Clean. Congeal.

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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