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Today Puzzle #562

Puzzle No. 562– Friday 6 September

Strictly Come Dancing returns tomorrow night! One contestant, Alex Scott, former England footballer and now Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú presenter is given a word challenge. Pasodoble is a dance style meaning double step in Spanish. Using only the letters from the word PASODOBLE, what is the longest word Alex can make? Hint: the answer is many cute pets!

Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Bobby Seagull is a school maths teacher and Doctorate student in Mathematics Education at Cambridge University. www.bobbyseagull.com

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The longest word you can form from pasodoble is poodles (and this is a plural version of a cute pet!)

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