Race-to-Nine Word Puzzle #1

Make any 3 letter word with the letters shown. That will unlock another letter. Now make a 4 letter word. Can you get all the way to nine?
Words valid according to Scrabble dictionary
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Last updated: May 28, 2019
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First submittedMay 27, 2019
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63 Comments
+30
Level 76
May 27, 2019
Nice quiz, James. Ingenious!
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Level 68
May 28, 2019
That was fun
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Level 88
May 28, 2019
Duh, tried retaming and not remating. Great quiz :)
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Level 92
Jun 21, 2019
Get out.
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Level 44
Oct 29, 2019
I saw emigrant instead
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Level 62
Mar 4, 2021
I saw gramnite. *sigh*
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Level 59
Sep 29, 2025
I saw gramite on the level 7 word LOL
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Level 92
Jun 20, 2019
I won't be able to sleep after that.
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Level 80
Jun 20, 2019
Well done!
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Level 44
Jun 21, 2019
this is nice you should do more quizzes like this
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Level 63
Jun 21, 2019
You can check out the entire series here
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Level 80
Jun 21, 2019
Awesome!
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Level 99
Jun 21, 2019
great and fun idea!
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Level 74
Jun 21, 2019
really cool quiz idea!
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Level 77
Jun 24, 2019
Good quiz, enjoyed it
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Level 67
Jun 24, 2019
Love it!!
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Level 86
Jun 26, 2019
Tigerman is not a word?
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Level 76
Jul 4, 2019
I wanted to say the same thing ( in jest, mostly) I sort of made it up, but tried it.. But there are actually several wikipedia pages named tigerman and many more normal google hits haha.

But I guess wether it is in a dictionary or not is what counts.

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Level 78
Jan 12, 2024
Apparently neither is ThinGamer
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Level 76
Jul 4, 2019
Awesome quiz, at first it was easy, saw them almost instantly, but nr 8... was a tough one for me.. the m sort of threw me. And my focus kept going to that letter.

Great one, wish these could be endless, like random each time. But ofcourse that is not possible.

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Level 76
Jul 4, 2019
Why isnt the rest of this series featured?
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Level 80
Jul 17, 2019
Perhaps "antigerm" should be allowed (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antigerm)
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Level 63
Aug 4, 2019
In these quizzes I use the official Scrabble dictionary as a measure of a word's validity.
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Level 69
Aug 6, 2019
I was waiting for the S ... streaming!
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Level 68
Aug 6, 2019
sweet!! missed the last one
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Level 79
Aug 12, 2019
I was sure I had the ninth word figured out, thinking it was tampering, and then I saw the H...
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Level 74
Aug 16, 2019
This quiz really fooks over us dyslexics :-(

I'd need about three hours lol

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Level 67
Sep 15, 2019
I kept looking for an "ing" word for the last one.
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Level 87
Nov 7, 2019
Just went and tried your 2nd (non-featured) quiz like this, and it's just as great. Why aren't all of these featured? This is such a nice quiz variation, especially for word game/Boggle/Scrabble enthusiasts.
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Level 59
Dec 12, 2019
nice and quite difficult for a non native speaker
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Level 51
Mar 8, 2020
Fricking Annoying
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Level 37
Mar 10, 2020
Epic quiz
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Level 64
Jun 14, 2020
I tried "imager" as a guess and didn't really figure it was a real word
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Level 46
Aug 16, 2020
Great quiz!
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Level 26
Oct 5, 2020
damn, this was difficult what a nightmare! to me 4 attempts.
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Level 47
Oct 15, 2020
wow this was fun!
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Level 46
Nov 11, 2020
Ragtime sounds like something a girl gets once a month no ?
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Level 28
Jan 28, 2025
correct
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Level 53
Dec 22, 2020
The 5 letter word was the hardest to come out with.
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Level 73
Jan 9, 2021
Can you consider adding yellow box? The SVG gets all messed up otherwise.
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Level 86
Jan 12, 2021
C'était un cauchemar, ça.
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Level 37
Jun 21, 2021
i translated he's saying:

It was a nightmare, that.

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Level 86
Dec 28, 2023
It was a clue. Now it isn't :)
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Level 78
Feb 3, 2021
Got it! As a German!
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Level 73
Feb 6, 2021
hangtimer?
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Level 44
Apr 2, 2021
This quiz is a nightmare!
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Level 37
Jun 21, 2021
strangely enough, I accidentally answered 2 out of order...
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Level 63
Jul 9, 2021
terming for 7?
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Level 63
Jul 9, 2021
The "N" is not yet available for use at level 7.
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Level 59
Aug 4, 2021
What on earth is the definition of "remating"? Having s** for the second time?
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Level 79
Aug 15, 2021
Just missed Nightmare, I was surprised to get some of these. Nice quiz
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Level 24
Dec 19, 2021
Those who say this quiz is a "gem" should instead be called a "germ". They should have "grime" put on them just like the "imager". They should also "migrate" to another country and become an "emigrant". Oh my god is this quiz a "nightmare".
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Level 56
Jan 25, 2022
first try
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Level 24
Sep 15, 2022
35 seconds!!!
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Level 63
Oct 15, 2022
And it started off so easy...
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Level 65
Nov 1, 2022
I knew what the final word would be at 6 letters, but only barely finished after getting stuck at 8 for a solid minute and a half.
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Level 55
Nov 1, 2022
great quiz.
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Level 23
Nov 6, 2022
This was a nightmare!!
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Level 77
Oct 17, 2023
If 'tigerman' is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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Level 63
Feb 5, 2025
Germinate almost works for 8...unfortunate.
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Level 55
Jul 26, 2025
I like the way that this quiz ends with the word "nightmare"
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Level 32
Oct 16, 2025
"tiger" is a valid 5-letter word...
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Level 80
May 2, 2026
Not one that you can make from the letters M, G, I, E, and R.