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Mace

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

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Mace

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Indian mace, eighteenth century.

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Indian mace, eighteenth century.

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MET Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

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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acme acne amen anemic ante anti antic came cane cant cement cent cine cinema cite eaten emetic emit enact enema entice imam inmate item mace maim main mane manic mate matinee mean meanie meant meantime meat meet menace mete mica mice mien mime mince mincemeat mine mint mite name neat nice niece tame team teem teen time tine
mincemeat matinee cement cinema entice inmate menace antic eaten enact enema manic meant mince niece acne amen ante cane cant cent cite came emit imam item mace maim main mane mate mean meat meet mien mime mine mint mite mice name neat nice tame team teem teen time
acme acne amen anemic ante anti antic came cane cant cement cent cine cinema cite eaten emetic emit enact enema entice imam inmate item mace maim main mane manic mate matinee mean meanie meant meantime meat meet menace mete mica mice mien mime mince mincemeat mine mint mite name neat nice niece tame team teem teen time tine

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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 Acne. Cane. Enact.

2 Come. Mace. Mint.

3 Inmate. Mite. Mouse.

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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