Some Nerve

Please forgive me if I have written about this before, but one of my practices over the past couple of years has been to play “Spelling Bee” in the New York Times. Each day, there are 7 letters given, and from these 7 letters the player must come up with words consisting of at least four of them, with one specific letter, which appears in the center of the grid, being required to appear in each word.

Today, the letters are:

 

 

 

Here are 15 of the 16 words I have found:

Attach

Catch

Catchup

Chat

Cutup

Hatch

Hutch

Pact

Patch

Path

Phat

Putt

Putz

Taut

That

Tutu

Can you find the word that uses all 7 letters? I will tell you that the word is 8 letters long (i.e., one of those 7 letters appears twice in the word).

Do not drive yourselves too crazy with this – I will try to remember to post the solution tomorrow.

Love,

Rebecca