Front Hooking Z - July 5
Inspiration for these blogs often comes from game situations. My opponent started with the word ZINES for 48 points. My initial response only scored 34 points, playing TAJ across the front to make AZINES. However a couple of turns later I was lucky enough to be able to extend back to the triple word score by playing DIAZINES for 54 points.
That game intrigued me enough to do a little research. There are only 4 words of 5 letters starting with Z where a single letter can be placed in front to make a 6 letter word. They are:
ZYMES - Which can be extended to AZYMES
ZONAL - Which can be extended to AZONAL
ZONES - Which can be extended to OZONES
ZINES - Which can be extended to both AZINES and EZINES
Interestingly if a game was started with any of those 4 words it is possible to extend all of them back to the triple word square
ZYMES only has one possibility - ISOZYMES
ZONAL has two possibilities - SUBZONAL and TRIZONAL
However ZONES and ZINES have many words to remember:
CALZONES - An Italian turnover with a savoury filling
CANZONES - An Italian song resembling a madrigal
ECOZONES - Regional ecosystems
ENDZONES - The scoring zones in American Football
SUBZONES - Subdivisions of a zone
TRIZONES - Countries formed of three zones
WARZONES - Regions of armed conflict
BENZINES - Mixtures of hydrocarbons from petroleum
DIAZINES - Organic compounds of oxygen and nitrogen
FANZINES - Magazines for fans
OXAZINES - Heterocyclic chemical compounds
RHIZINES - Multicellular rootlike structures of lichen
WEBZINES - Magazines published on the internet
Given the topic, this time i will wish you:
Zappy Scrabbling
Patrick
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