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Palm

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

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Palm

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Palm Beach, Florida, comes to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Wesley Square down on the city’s Quayside became a ‘pocket park’ for a few weeks in the summer of 2011, with palm trees and sand-pits for beach volleyball.

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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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alit armpit atrium hail hair halt harm harp hart haul hilt hump hurl hurt impart lair lamp lath liar lima limp lira lump mail malt marl mart maul mirth mural pail pair palm part path phial pilau pita pith plait plum pram prat prim primal primula puma purl rail ramp rapt ritual rump tail tamp tapir tarp thru thrum thump trail tram tramp trap trial trim trip triumph triumphal trump tulip
triumph ritual armpit primal impart tulip phial plait mirth thump trail tramp trial trump mural hilt ramp rapt hurl rump tail tamp hump haul hart tram harp trap harm trim trip halt hair hail rail puma lump part mail malt maul limp pail pair palm path hurt liar pith lamp plum pram prim lair
alit armpit atrium hail hair halt harm harp hart haul hilt hump hurl hurt impart lair lamp lath liar lima limp lira lump mail malt marl mart maul mirth mural pail pair palm part path phial pilau pita pith plait plum pram prat prim primal primula puma purl rail ramp rapt ritual rump tail tamp tapir tarp thru thrum thump trail tram tramp trap trial trim trip triumph triumphal trump tulip

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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 Haul. Lamp. Plait.

2 Mail. Thump. Vial.

3 Hail. Lump. Trap.

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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