A cluster of grapes.(Pencil PAGES)(Brief Article)

From: Child Life | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Centrone, Rosie | Copyright information

How many words with three or more letters can you make by going from one grape to another grape that touches it? For example, you can go from T to E, but you can't go from T to K. You can also go to the same grape twice, from T to E to L and then back to L again to get "tell." Proper nouns or plurals do not count. There are more than 50 words.

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