Mindbender

A: "Here's the bill for polishing the floor," said Sam. "Only sixty pence a square metre, but your guess for the area was seventeen square metres out."

Clare looked. "£10.20 more than I expected," she commented. "I thought it was five metres longer than it was wide."

"I know you did," Sam told her. "But in fact it's two metres wider, and one metre shorter, than you said." What were the dimensions?

B: Doug held up a sheet of paper. "Look, Dad," he said. "Our new phone number."

"That's right. Seven figures to remember now. It was much easier with letters." Harry smiled. "What about it?"

"I found something," replied the boy. "If you add the square of the first three figures to the square of the last four, you get the whole number again."

What was it?

You have 10 minutes to find as many words as possible using the letters in the wheel. Each word must use the hub letter and at least three others, and letters may be used only once. You cannot use plurals, foreign words or proper nouns. There is one nine-letter word in the wheel.

How you rate:

15 words, average; 25 words, good; 35 words, very good; 40 or more, excellent.