Thank you for those kind and supportive words, Technomc and Lulu! Actually I don't mind at all being bested by better minds.......I just wish that I'd found Chihuahua a long time ago. I must have played every other online game that there is.....Word Mojo, Boggle, Bookworm, Texttwist,Flipwords etc etc. I think the real difference is that in those games you simply try to beat your own score, and have no idea how other people might fare. That's why I got such a shake-up when I found you all! It's really put me on my mettle.......out have come the ancient dictionaries....(would you believe a 20kg, 1927 Websters? My pride and joy ) and on has gone the thinking cap. I am trying hard to resist killing off more of my grey cells with a few glasses of wine.....white in my case!