Quiz - Top 20 Toughies (15,000)

1) EMORSUV (a woman)
2) AHIKORS (Japanese term meaning death caused by overwork)
3) KINOOST (green seaweed)
4) EIIILRV (projection of figures from a flat background)
5) DENOOSS (a homeopathic remedy)
6) AKIOPST (a New Zealand spider)
7) AADGHOR (an Indian manager)
8) EEHILPS (a freckle)
9) AEEHSST (behest)
10) AAMNOOS (a New Zealand shrub)
11) EEEGNPR (a centrepiece for a table)
12) ACKIORS (of sandstone, not AIR SOCK as I thought)
13) AAGMORS (a tree yielding nim-oil)
14) AACEPRU (a combination of martial art and dance)
15) AAEHNPS (a large vein in the leg)
16) ADEHIKS (a loose shirt)
17) AAGOPRU (the groper in Chinese cookery)
18) AAILNSS (a pond)
19) ACINOQU (a small clam)
20) AAGIOSS (an Intalian cheese)

Quiz - Top 20 Toughies (16,000)

Elise is a new Scrabble programme that has impressed even the inventors of Quackle and received many compliments from the wider Scrabble playing community. I'm busy downloading the 160MB application and will let you know how it plays.

Meantime, I've fallen behind in my studies but nevertheless, I'm forging ahead bravely. If you're in for a challenge, check out these words from the probability group 15,000 to 16,000. I missed them all. And then I missed them again. And again. If you get even 1 correct I will be impressed.

1) AAHIKOR
2) AAGKORT
3) AHINTUU
4) ACDIMOO
5) CDEKNOR
6) AAEIMMT
7) AACLNST
8) AEEKMNS
9) ALLOSTU
10) AAEGPRR
11) AAEGMTT
12) CEGIRRS
13) ACISTTU
14) EEHLLOT
15) EEEMSTU
16) ACOOPRT
17) ACCINOT
18) ACIILSU
19) DEEGRSW
20) ACFINOV