Word games.

I came up with a word game to amuse myself: take 33 letter tiles (I use the ones from the Bananagrams), create as many interconnecting words as possible and then do a short story, poem, observation using all of them (time frame - 10 minutes).

My yesterday creation included the following words, see below, with four letters "a" "a" "r" "p" left unused.

										t
										a
						v	i	v	i	d
		a				a
z	e	n				n
		g			p	i	n
		e				t
		l	o	f	t	y
				u
	k	e	e	n

As my husband passed by the  table, I asked, "Care to make a use of the remaining tiles?"  He immediately came up with the word "rape" but seeing my slightly horrified face changed it to "trap", which left only one tile unused - the second letter "a"
                             

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r

a

p

a

v

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v

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d

a

a

z

e

n

n

g

p

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n

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t

l

o

f

t

y

u

k

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My son stopped by and was given the same task with the previous four letter: two "a", "p" and "r". Below is his creation with no tiles left = 33 out of 33

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a

p

a

a

v

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v

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d

r

a

a

z

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n

n

g

p

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l

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t

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u

k

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n

I didn't torture them with creation of the story/poem out of the words but I wrote somewhat of an invocation:

Oh joyful angel in a vivid robe
A Mater of zen, who is keen on fun,
Touch me with a golden pin
Tap into my creativity
Extinguish my vanity
Show me your lofty goals
Don't let me fall par below
Fill me with joy,
Share a tad of your wisdom.