Coffee Break

How many words of three letters or more can you make from the letters in this grid? There at least 110 words, icluding at least nine-letter word. Answers below.

For being good at the party, four children were given two sweets. Jack had an orange sweet. The child who had the red one also had a blue one. No child had two sweets of the same colour. The child who had a green sweet also had a red one. Jim didn’t have a red sweet and Joe had a green one. James didn’t have an orange one and Jack had no blue sweets. Knowing that there were two sweets of each colour, can you tell the colours of the sweets each child had?

Answer below!

Word Square
3-letter words: ape, ash, asp, ass, has, hen, hip, his, nae, nap, nip, pan, pap, pea, pen, pep, phi, pie, pin, pip, psi, sap, sea, she, sin, sip, spa. 4-letter words: apes, apse, asps, hasp, heap, hens, hips, hiss, nape, naps, neap, ness, nips, pain, pane, pans, pass, peas, pens, pies, pine, pins, pipe, pips, pish, sane, saps, sash, seas, shin, ship, sine, sins, sips, snap, snip, span, spas, spin.
5-letter words: anise, apses, ashen, ashes, aspen, hasps, heaps, napes, neaps, pains, paise, panes, penis, phase, pines, pipes, sepia, shape, shies, shine, shins, ships, snaps, snipe, snips, spans, spies, spine, spins. 6-letter words: aspens, happen, pepsin, phases, sepias, shapes, shines, snipes, spines. 7-letter words:  aphesis, happens, hessian, nappies, pansies, pepsins, sapiens, shippen 8-letter words: shippens. 9-letter words: happiness.

Sweet Treat

Jack had an orange and a green sweet

Jim had an orange and  a blue one.

James had a red and a blue sweet

Joe had a green and a red one