6 letter anagrams: U N D O S S

6 letter word
SOUNDS

5 letter words
SOUND

4 letter words
UNDO
SUNS
SUDS
SOUS
SONS
SODS
ONUS
NOUS
NODS
DUOS
DUNS
DOSS
DONS

3 letter words
SUN
SOU
SOD
NUS - the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
NOS - plural of no
NOD
DUO
SUN
DOS - plural of do. "She attended several dos."
DON

6 letter anagrams: L G O G R E

6 letter word
LOGGER

5 letter words
OGLER
GORGE

4 letter words
ROLE
OGRE
OGLE
LORE
LOGE
GROG
GORE
GOER
ERGO

3 letter words
ROE
ORE
OLE
LOG
LEG
GEL
ERG
EGO
EGG

6 letter anagrams: P R T I C S

6 letter word
SCRIPT

5 letter words
TRIPS
STRIP
DCRIP
CRISP

4 letter words
TRIP
TIPS
TICS
STIR
SPIT
RIPS
PITS
PICS

3 letter words
TIP
SIC
SIT
SIR
SIP
SIC
RIP
PSI
PIT
PIS
PIC
ITS

6 letter anagrams: D R S E H U

6 letter word
RUSHED

5 letter words
USHER
SHRED
SHERD
HERDS

4 letter words
USER
USED
SURE
SUED
SHED
RUSH
RUSE
RUED
RUDE
REDS
HUES
HUED
HERS
HERD
DUES

3 letter words
USE
SUE
SHE
RUE
RED
HUE
HES
HER
DUH
DUE

6 letter anagrams: S S C M K A

6 letter word
SMACKS

5 letter words
SMACK
SCAMS
SACKS
MASKS
MACKS
CASKS

4 letter words
SCAM
SACS
SACK
MASS
MASK
MACS
MACK
CASK
CAMS
ASKS

3 letter words
SKA
SAC
MAS
MAC
CAM
ASS
ASK

6 letter anagrams: R U T P B A

6 letter word
ABRUPT

4 letter words
TUBA
TRAP
TARP
TABU
RAPT
PRAT
PART
BURP
ABUT

3 letter words
TUB
TAU
TAR
TAP
TAB
RUT
RUB
RAT
RAP
PUT
PUB
PAT
PAR
BUT
BUR
BRA
BAT
BAR
ART
APT

6 letter anagrams: E K E L S S

6 letter word
SLEEKS

5 letter words
SLEEK
SEEKS
LEEKS
KEELS

4 letter words
SEES
SEEK
LESS
LEES
LEEK
KEEL
ELSE
ELKS
EKES
EELS

3 letter words
SEE
LEE
ELK
EKE
EEL
EKE

6 Letter anagrams: P E S Y E L

6 letter word
SLEEPY

5 letter words
YELPS
SLEEPS
PEELS

4 letter words
YEPS
YELP
SEEP
PEES
PEEL
LEES
EYES
ESPY
ELSE
EELS

3 letter words
YES
YEP
SPY
SLY
SEE
PLY
PEE
LYE
LEE
EYE
EEL

Electronic scrabble-like game brings fun anywhere, anytime

Kansas State Collegian: Electronic scrabble-like game brings fun anywhere, anytime

Wordfeud is a new application for the iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone and Android. It allows you to play an electronic Scrabble-like game with anyone, anytime.

The best thing about this app is the fact you can play at your own pace, whenever and wherever you want. All you have to do is download the app and create a login. The app allows you to log in with your Facebook or Twitter, or you can create a separate user name to connect with friends. You can even play random opponents.

This app is basically just a way to pass time, but I enjoy coming up with words and making them fit. Most of the time I don't aim for the most points, I go for the best word I can fit, which often still gets the most points.

One of the game's downfalls is it doesn't take proper nouns, like cities and names. The app uses English, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish and Swedish dictionaries. Once you pick a language, you can't use words from the other available languages.

The hardest part of the game is finding space after the first 10 or so moves. There are times when you get great letters and think of a word, but you can't find a clear space or enough space on the board to play. I usually end up guessing words, which has helped me improve my vocabulary because I've discovered a few new words. I know many of the people I play against also guess words just to use up letters without having to skip a turn.

The most addictive aspect of Wordfeud is the competitiveness. Finding a word that fits and getting the most points, or putting words on the board that are funnier or better than what the other person can come up with is what drives this game.

Depending on the words placed and extra point spaces used, final scores can range from being a few points apart to one person's score being twice as high as the other's. The game board is filled with double and triple letter and word spaces which can boost a score significantly.

Just like real Scrabble, the game takes thought and skill. Unlike the real version, you can guess more and find new words without having to go look the words up in a dictionary every time.

Wordfeud is a great way to waste time, but only if the other person responds quickly. If you don't play it on a phone, you are limited to Wi-Fi spots.

6 Letter Anagrams: A L N I S S

6 letter word
SNAILS

5 letter words
SNAIL
SLAIN
SISAL
SAILS
NAILS

4 letter words
SINS
SANS
SAIL
NAIL
LASS
LAIN
AILS

3 letter words
SIS
SIN
NIL
INS
ASS
ANI
AIL

6-Letter Anagram: E Y G R A R

6 letter word
GRAYER

5 letter word
GAYER

4 letter words
YEAR
REAR
RARE
RAGE
GREY
GRAY
GEAR

3 letter words
YEA
RYE
RAY
RAG
GAY
GAR
ERR
ERG
ERA
EAR
AYE
ARE
AGE

Wordsmith is Today’s Free App of the Day on Amazon [Scrabble Clone]

Phandroid.com: Wordsmith is Today’s Free App of the Day on Amazon [Scrabble Clone]

Wordsmith – one of several scrabble clones for Android – is now available as a free download on the Android market for the day. It’s normally $2.50 and is not bad for a game that seemingly came out of nowhere way back when. Most folks are writing it off as a Words With Friends copycat, but at least Wordsmith doesn’t force you to deal with ads. (A game-breaking feature for those who root and have an ad-blocker enabled. You know what I mean.) In any case, Wordsmith is worth a quick try so go ahead and grab the download from Amazon.

[This is for Android, not the Kindle. So annoying!]

Scrabble whiz lost for words

NorthernStar.com.au: Scrabble whiz lost for words
“ANEARING” and “quetzal” might not mean much to the average person, but to Adeyemi Johnson these words are scrabble-scoring goldmines.

Mr Johnson was one of 44 wordsmiths competing in the annual Lismore ANZAC Scrabble Tournament at the Lismore Workers Club on the weekend.

The defending champion conceded he was a bit disappointed with his results on the first day of the competition on Saturday, despite scoring 84 points for a single word.

“On Saturday I had a bad day, but I face up to the challenge,” he said yesterday

“In Scrabble there are no losers, we are all winners.”

To Mr Johnson and his fellow Scrabble enthusiasts, winning a 44-minute game in the tournament is all about tactics, logistics and forward thinking.

“There is a psychology to playing Scrabble,” he said.

“If I know you have a six-letter word I will keep my eyes locked on your eyes and my strategy is to try to hypnotise you and keep your mind off your move.

“You can tell if your competitor has good letters if they are always fumbling them, but if they are frowning then their letters are not so good.”

The Lismore resident began playing Scrabble 25 years ago and hopes to compete at the National Scrabble Tournament next year.

“The atmosphere is very nice at the nationals,” he said.

“You meet a lot of different people from different spheres and you make many friends. Scrabble is a very friendly game.

“You never whinge, only at yourself.”

But it was Gold Coast player Rita Humphrey who took home the Lismore ANZAC Cup yesterday after she won nine out of 10 games over the weekend.

As part of the tournament, competitors were required to play 10 games of Scrabble against five competitors over two days.

The number of winning games was then tallied to find the champion player.

Brunswick Heads resident Trish Reynolds has been playing the board game for 15 years and now uses online Scrabble games to keep her skills up to scratch.

“Tournament Scrabble is a lot different to normal Scrabble. There are tactics involved. You are always thinking ahead and always setting up for the next move,” she said.

“Many of the best Scrabble players have very analytical minds, like mathematicians and computer nerds.”

6 Letter Anagrams: G O E R D G

6 letter words
GORGED

5 letter words
GORGE
GORED

4 letter words
RODE
EEDO
OGRE
GROG
GORE
GOER
ERGO
DOGE
DOER

3 letter words
ROE
ROD
RED
ORE
ODE
GOD
ERG
EGO
EGG
DOG
DOE

DOGE - a ruler of Italy in the 15th century

6 letter word anagrams: E S S N R U

6 letter words
NURSES

5 letter words
USERS
RUSES
RUNES
NURSE

4 letter words
USES
USER
URNS
SURE
SUNS
SUES
RUSE
RUNS
RUNE
RUES

3 letter words
USE
URN
SUN
SUE
RUN
RUE
NUS
ENS

6 letter anagrams: S V A D I O

6 letter words
AVOIDS

5 letter words
VOIDS
DIVAS
AVOID
ADIOS

4 letter words
VOID
VISA
SODA
SAID
DIVA
DAIS
AVID
AIDS

3 letter words
VIA
SOD
SAD
OVA
IDS
DOS
DIS
AID
ADS
ADO

6 letter anagrams: O R E S S L

6 letter words
LOSERS
LESSOR

5 letter words
SORES
SOLES
SLOES
ROSES
ROLES
LOSES
LOSER

4 letter words
SORE
SOLS
SOLE
SLOE
ROSE
ROLE
ROES
ORES
LOSS
LOSE
LORE
LESS

3 letter words
SOL
ROE
ORE
OLE

Definitions
Roe is fish egg.
Sloe is a small, sour blackish fruit of the blackthorn

Whiz Kids of the Week: National Scrabble Tournament Participants

Burlington Patch: Whiz Kids of the Week: National Scrabble Tournament Participants
Burlington Patch selects Alex & Kristen Brodeur, Kevin Dukas, Michael Cerullo, Max Marshall and Adil Sageer as the Whiz Kids of the Week.

Each week, Burlington Patch will select a Whiz Kid of the Week. This week, we chose Alex and Kristen Brodeur, Kevin Dukas, Michael Cerullo, Max Marshall and Adil Sageer, all members of the Woburn Public Library Scrabble Club. These six kids are hoping to go to Florida to represent Woburn in the National Scrabble Tournament!

Max Marshall, grade 5 and Adil Sageer of Burlington
Wyman School
--Max has played so well this year, he is hoping to represent Woburn in the national Scrabble tournament.

Max and Adil's "Key to Awesomeness" is love and passion for Scrabble and words.
Alex Brodeur, grade 8 and Kristen Brodeur, grade 7
Kennedy Middle School
--Alex and Kristen both played in the national tournament last year.
The Brodeurs' "Key to Awesomeness" is their ability to excell in a number of different activities. Alex is a Boy Scout and Kristen was recently selected to take part in a special six-week program in Australia.

Kevin Dukas and Michael Cerullo, grade 6
Kennedy Middle School
--Kevin and Michael both helped create a scrabble club at Kennedy.
Kevin and Michael's "Key to Awesomeness" is their enthusiasm for the game and love of words. The boys felt so strongly about the WPL club that they created their own club at their school.

6 Letter word: Y T A R M R

6 letter word
MARTYR

5 letter words
TARRY
MARRY

4 letter words
TRAY
TRAM
MART
ARTY
ARMY

3 letter words
YAM
TRY
TAR
TAM
RAY
RAT
RAM
MAY
MAT
MAR
ART
ARM

TAM is short for tam-o-shanter - a type of hat worn in Scotland

6 Letter word: K A R E R M

6 letter words
REMARK
MARKER

5 letter words
REARM
MAKER

4 letter words
REAR
REAM
RARE
RAKE
MARK
MARE
MAKE

3 letter words
REM
RAM
MAR
ERR
ERA
EAR
ARM
ARK
ARE

Hard-core Scrabble for a good cause

Toronto Sun: Hard-core Scrabble for a good cause
With somewhat less fanfare than the debut of the Jeopardy supercomputer Watson, Canadian actor R.H. Thomson defeated a world-class Scrabble program at the Performing Arts Lodge.

We were playing a four-handed game a week ago against the Quackle program (which has defeated world champions), and the admitted Scrabble underachiever Thomson had been set up and then told what to play by Robin Pollock Daniel, the erstwhile top-ranked woman player in North America.

Her word, “manhater,” allowed Thomson to play all his tiles with the word “calottes” — ending the game and giving Thomson 125 points on one turn, counting all the tiles he scored off of us.

With that, he edged Quackle 194-182.

“That feels good! I love it!,” Thomson enthused about his assisted win.

“Now you know why Scotia Bank always picks me to play at their table,” Pollock Daniel says.

Picking her comes with a price at Scrabble With The Stars, the annual Performing Arts Lodge fundraising gala that takes place Monday at the Arcadian Court on Bay. Pollock Daniel and world champ Joel Wapnick typically attract auction bids of $1,000 and up to be “table cheats” at the event.

It’s all for a good cause, funding for the Toronto Performing Arts Lodge on Esplanade, a celebrated retirement residence for Canadian actors, musicians, artists, etc., who typically don’t reach retirement age with the most comprehensive pension plan.

And the cause itself is enough to drag out a coterie of Canadian stars annually to flaunt their vocabulary. Besides Thomson, this year’s Scrabble stars include Colin Mochrie, Deb McGrath, Graham Greene, Gordon Pinsent, Dave Broadfoot, Dinah Christie and hosts Jeanne Beker and Barry Flatman.

“I don’t have a word head,” says Thomson, “so once a year I suffer great humiliation for a great cause. Here, in the arts, the sunset of your career is usually a terrible time. You don’t make any money in theatre, so what are you going to retire on?

“A lot of my old friends live (at PAL). It’s a wonderful way for the community to pull together and respect itself.” It’s also a wonderful way to enrich your word power. From the first turn, when Quackle (with the help of operator Tony Leah and his granddaughter Lauren) put down the word “fibrin” (a fibrous protein) and Pollock Daniel followed with “capiz” (a type of mollusk), causing Thomson to pronounce, “I hate this game!” it was a trip down the rabbit hole of words allowed by the Scrabble dictionary. Words popped up like “glout” and “nares” — not all of which the champions could define. “It’s not important,” Pollock Daniel says.

“Whenever anyone asks me what a word means, I just say it’s a European shrub.” Odddities like “za” (surfer-dude colloquialism for pizza) are accepted by the Scrabble Dictionary (a wholly-owned property of Hasbro). As for religious observances, “Kwanzaa” is now acceptable, but not “Eid” (as I found out when I tried to play it).

And given that there is no Canadian edition, the word “inukshuk” (standing stones) is outrageously not accepted.

And then there’s “bingo,” which refers to using all seven letters for a 50-point bonus. As in, “You’re not even giving me a place to stick the bingo,” as Pollock Daniel complained to Leah.

“I have no free will here, I am doing as directed by Quackle,” Leah replied.

“Scrabble involves looking many moves ahead,” Robin Pollock explained. “It also involves blaming many moves back.” But blame will be at a minimum at Scrabble With The Stars. The cause — the comfort of our aging stars — is king, and any word is acceptable as long as it’s on a cheque.

6 Letter word: O C S E H O

6 letter word
Choose

5 letter words
Eschos
Cohos
Chose

4 letter words
Shoo
Shoe
Oohs
Hose
Hoes
Echo
Cosh
Coos
Coho

3 letter words
She
Sec
Ooh
Ohs
Oho
Hos
Hoe
Hes
Cos
Coo

Scrabble. Rabble. Laser. Babe. Ale. As. It's your turn!

WashingtonExaminer.com: Scrabble. Rabble. Laser. Babe. Ale. As. It's your turn!

No man can serve both God and Mammon. Fair enough. But what about Scrabble? Can a person serve both God and the most enduringly gripping word game in the Western Hemisphere?
(Hemisphere! Premise. Miser. Pier. Him. Pi.)

I certainly hope so, because, like a lot of people lately, I've descended into the kind of Scrabble thralldom only possible in an era of magical hand-held devices.

(Devices. Sieved. Vice. Id!)

You used to need an actual board and actual people, physically in the same room, to get up a game. In those sepia-tinted, pre-iPhone days, a person might blow the dust off the Scrabble box and set the board up in the living room a couple of times a year. Only zealots played every weekend.

(Weekend. Keened. Kneed. Kwee? -- never mind.)

All that changed with the advent of electronic hand-held Scrabble boards, objects that are still sometimes puzzlingly referred to as "cell phones" or "laptops" or "Kindles." I don't know why people bother to use those terms, when obviously the purest purpose of the things is to allow you to move little letter tiles around and place them on a board, crossword-style, in such a way as to trounce your nears-and-dears -- or, for that matter, to beat "the computer" or a random opponent.

Now, with these wonderful devices, the amount of Scrabble a person can play is limited only by life's little distractions: your spouse and children, for instance, and God (or Mammon), and what you do to earn a paycheck.

If you are fortunate, however, your spouse and children will have become as obsessed with playing Scrabble as you, in which case you have the comfort of knowing that rather than subverting domesticity by drawing you into an electronic abstraction, Scrabble is only making your family stronger!

The same cannot be said for friendships. I have heard of several relationships that went through a frosty phase after prolonged bouts of long-distance Scrabble.

In one case, a player suspected his friend of secretly using a Scrabble website that took his lousy rack of vowels and helped turn it into a 70-point-scoring wonder. In another situation, a woman found so irksome her sister's propensity for playing short, highly remunerative words -- rather than long, swashbuckling, but lower-scoring ones -- that for a while she refused to play with her.

(Irksome. Smirk. Skim. Mire!)

Generally speaking, though, obsessive Scrabble play seems to have mostly benign -- if not outright comical -- side effects. It gives married couples a new reason to escape to the privacy of their bedrooms in the evenings. It causes street signs automatically to rearrange themselves before your very eyes, like tiles on a letter rack.

And, in our household, it has changed the way people talk. Once upon a time, the two most commonly heard sentences were: "What's for dinner?" and "We're late!"

Under the influence of Scrabble-mania, they have been replaced by: "Have you gone yet?" and "Your turn!"