nuking
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How nuking fits the hive
Base Score
6
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
G I K N U
Two-Letter Start
NU
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
ING
Useful for cleanup scans
- 6 letters
- 5 unique letters
- NU start
- ING ending
- repeated letters
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- nuking is worth 6 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include g, i, k, n, u plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (N x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The ING ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the NU start.
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Definitions
verb
To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
"If a nuclear war ever breaks out, military facilities are likely to be nuked first."
verb
To destroy or erase completely.
"To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives."
verb
(by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
verb
To expose to some form of radiation.
verb
To cook in a microwave oven.
"I’ll nuke some pizza for dinner."
verb
To over-analyze or overly despair over something.
Related Words
Same Letters
- unkinking
Synonyms
- annihilate
- devastate
- obliterate