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dusty2229 · Veteran Joined: 14 May 2005 Posts: 128 Location: London

[Puzzle] Black #208 Freak Word

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:28 am

BennyH · Boot Joined: 02 Jan 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Perth

I can make 30 with UNFASTENS (assuming we are using the board and not just those letters). Any better?

Surely there's another level to this?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:56 am

JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

I can get... Umm, I think it's 102 (including the 50 word bonus for using all tiles) (you get 13 for the tiles, there are 2 double word score tiles, so that's 52, +50 bonus... I think that's right Smile

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I can't see anything bigger, and I know all the 2 and 3 letter words, and have a page reference for 4 letters... I think that's the best.. Smile

Jeb

EDIT: hah! i didn't say the word!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:43 am

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Only just a smidge to the left of topic: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390632/ Word Wars. good movie Smile

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:30 pm

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Make sure you include double and triple word/letter scores!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:27 pm

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JebJoya · Unfettered Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK

**Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:10 pm

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erm... talking of puzzles within puzzles, has anyone noticed that hardly any of the words on the board are actualy legal scrabble words? Do we need to look more closely at the letters on the board perhaps?

**Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:09 pm

appleTRON

**Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 4:47 pm

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mistermole

Really? Crap, no wonder I'm hopeless at Scrabble then. Confused

**Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:02 pm

Bahamoth · Boot Joined: 07 Aug 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Reading

Actually - you got 110 not 102.

You may not have seen the double letter score for the g. letters were 15 points, double twice = 60 at the fifty = 110

That is, of course, if you count both double word scores, i don't really know the rules too well. With a brain like that I trust you do.

Still beats my 26 for

**Posted:** Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:48 am

SteveC · Unfettered Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 381

You don't get to re-use the bonus of squares, you just get the tile value.

it's 13 value for the whole word, then double word to 26, then double word to 52, then 50 bonus for using all the tiles.. 102

**Posted:** Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:21 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

but.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:00 am

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Re: but.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:30 am

Curlytek

Not sure if this helps, but a Google search pulled up this page:

http://www.fabiennemarsh.com/work6.htm

Where the above mentioned answer is used in a Scrabble game in a similar manner to this puzzle, note the book title/puzzle title tie-in.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:49 am

colin

Nice find! seems to tie in so well I have to think that's what it's based on

**Posted:** Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:38 am