Polygon 27, 28, 29 July

Polygon puzzle 27 July

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 11 words, average; 14, good; 18, very good; 22, excellent.

Polygon puzzle 28 July

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 14 words, average; 18, good; 23, very good; 28, excellent.

Polygon puzzle 29 July

Using the given letters no more than once, make as many words as possible of four or more letters, always including the central letter. Capitalised words, plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives and superlatives are disallowed.

How you rate: 11 words, average; 15, good; 19, very good; 23, excellent.

Source: the Times

Answers in the comments

Comments

[Maxine]

29 July answers: abase, airbase, arabis, baas, bare, base, bear, beira, bias, bier, braai, brae, braise, brave, bris, brisé, rabies, saber, sabra, sabre, verb, vibe

abrasive is the word using all the letters.

28 July answers: deep, depose, desh, doge, dope, dose, edge, ephod, epode, geode, ghee, hedge, heed, hope, hose, ogee, peso, podge, pose, sedge, seed, seep, shed, sheep, shoe, speed, speedo

sheepdog is the word using all the letters.

27 July answers: amuck, cake, crake, creak, kame, mack, make, maker, mark, marker, muck, mucker, muckrake, murk, rack, rake, raker, raku, reck, remark, ruck

muckraker is the word using all the letters.

[Susan]

Quite a challenge today! I got all three words that used all the letters. My score was 15 words on the July 27 puzzle, 19* on the July 28 puzzle, and 14 on July 29th. The asterisk beside 19 refers to a little 'cheat'...I allowed myself an extra point for 'sego' which is a type of lily.

Welcome back, Maxine!