…with Gary Moss

Did you know that there is more than one way to use your ‘EARS’?

When playing scrabble we frequently find a word on our rack that doesn’t fit to play on the board. Times like that illustrate the value of anagrams.

An anagram is merely taking the letters in a word and rearranging them to create a different word.

EARS = ARES; ARSE; ERAS; RASE; SEAR; and SERA

Did you know all the words above?

The top competitive players in the game study the anagrams in the shorter words, but when they study the anagrams in a ‘bingo stem’, like ‘satine’, they master 69 bingos on as few as 26 cards. If you don’t know about ‘stems’ you need to CLICK HERE.

Here’s a sample: NASTIER

NASTIER = ANESTRI; ANTSIER; RATINES; RETAINS; RETINAS; RETSINA; STAINER; and STEARIN

Here’s an exercise that you can do today. (Avoid doing this while drive or working with machinery.)
Notice the items around you, like a STOP sign. Write down STOP. Now write down the anagrams.

STOP = OPTS; POST; POTS; SPOT; TOPS

Have fun with it. Look for the anagrams of words that may produce high score for you while playing scrabble.

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