Well, Christmas is the time for overdosing on food and playing lots of games. And a game of Scrabble with friends and family has inspired January’s Words of the Week. In case you don’t know the game, you win Scrabble by fitting words onto a board, using bonus squares and the words that have already been played (and high-scoring letters help too) to score more points than the other players. However, I prefer to think more broadly – I love words that squash neatly into holes, or that score well from an unpromising collection of letters. So here are my five favourite words from a Christmas game:
oh [əʊ]. The blank tile is an O, so placing the O and H gave the words OH twice, and NO. As the H was on a double letter space, the total score was 19 (the blank tile doesn’t score).

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