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Word Scramble - U.K. Cities

Beat the clock to unscramble the names of official cities of the United Kingdom. The answers change every time you play.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by Calum
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Last updated: January 8, 2021
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First submittedApril 15, 2014
Times taken58,806
Average score50.0%
Rating4.51
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Scramble
City
ondonl
London
tehersc
Chester
yernw
Newry
eeudnd
Dundee
weoptnr
Newport
efilsdefh
Sheffield
bssriulya
Salisbury
Scramble
City
eshehctrci
Chichester
smtrpthoou
Portsmouth
roefhedr
Hereford
ochriwn
Norwich
kyro
York
ssewana
Swansea
gbdhureni
Edinburgh
Scramble
City
fobaddrr
Bradford
etaeclnws
Newcastle
ruort
Truro
lstrbio
Bristol
anrgbo
Bangor
aotlemnvowphr
Wolverhampton
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Level 37
Apr 17, 2014
A very enjoyable quiz - and deceptively tricky! I didn't manage to get 'Leicester' and I have lived here for 10 years!!!
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Level 42
Apr 17, 2014
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Level 56
Sep 2, 2015
One note for QM - I'd like to see Liecester accepted as an alternate spelling, just for those of us who don't live in the UK and have rarely, if ever seen the word (this is the first alternate spelling request I've made, and I've done hundreds of quizzes here)
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Level 45
Nov 7, 2016
What? How can you ask for an anagram to have an alternative spelling, you may as well ask for daciffr to be an alternative spelling for Cardiff because I'd never heard of it so rearranged the letters to make a word that I thought looked a bit like it might be a place.
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Level 66
Dec 8, 2018
it would be like accepting Now Yerk, for New York (hey that is a funny one! never knew it was an anagram haha)
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Level 80
Apr 16, 2019
The whole point of this quiz is that the letters need to be arranged in the correct order with no alternative spellings.
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Level 53
Jan 8, 2023
and donnol for london
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Level 75
May 24, 2014
Liked this one. Thanks.
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Level 75
May 24, 2014
Couldn't get Lisburn -good quiz
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Level 83
May 24, 2014
For "Wentpro" I kept trying "Portwen" until I remembered that place was just made up for Doc Martin. Darn you Martin Clunes for making such a memorable character/series!
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Level 88
Jan 9, 2023
If only he and Hugh Laurie's House, M.D. could've collided.
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Level 91
May 26, 2014
I live just outside Lisburn and it was the one that stumped me!
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Level 44
May 29, 2014
I got London. 8-)
+3
Level 92
Jul 8, 2014
Very enjoyable. I admit, I ran down the list of Premier league towns before I actually got to anagramming... got me a good start on the list.
+3
Level 58
Jul 23, 2014
Why can't I convince my subconscious that Nottingham is not a fictional location?
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Level 55
Dec 21, 2020
As someone who lives in Nottingham, I can assure you that it's a real place. It is the home of twice European football champions Nottingham Forest (1978/79 and 1979/80 seasons) and 1984 Winter Olympic ice dance gold medallists Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
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Level 78
Jan 8, 2021
Our textbooks for learning English in school was Nottingham-centered for some reason. I still remember they mentioned that Nottingham is home to the Olde Trip to Jerusalem, the oldest pub in the UK (although that's more of a marketing claim).
+2
Level 66
Mar 24, 2021
Nottingham does not exist. It's like Bielefeld in Germany, isn't it ?
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Level 71
Jul 31, 2016
If you like anagrams and geography try my ...... Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams'
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Level 51
Dec 11, 2016
Nice quiz
+1
Level 81
Dec 31, 2016
Great work!
+1
Level 71
Apr 1, 2017
Good quiz, if you enjoyed this try my ....... Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams' ..... and Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams 2'
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Level 67
Apr 1, 2017
There should be more of these, and that's not because I got 80%!
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Level 75
Apr 1, 2017
This quiz is featured on the same day as another one about fruit. I guess I didn't pay much attention to what I'd clicked, so I spent the first minute or so trying hard to unscramble all these fruits I'd never heard of. All while thinking that, unexpectedly, this was the toughest quiz I'd ever taken.
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Level 66
Dec 8, 2018
haha really? That s funny :)
+15
Level 60
Apr 3, 2017
I think the anagram for Leicester should be changed to Erectiles.
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Level 44
Apr 16, 2017
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Level 44
Apr 29, 2018
"Drabford" from just outside of Bradford, can confirm
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Level 83
Oct 29, 2018
Even if you had used the smallest towns in the UK that nobody knows, I would have enjoyed this quiz just for the anagrams!
+2
Level 66
Dec 8, 2018
comment Before taking it: I am prepared to type a lot of extra letters ;)

I always love the word worchestershiresauce, and hearing wustersos (or wooster)

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Level 83
Jan 18, 2023
It’s spelt Worcestershire sauce and pronounced wuss-tuh-shuh-sorss in England (but there are variations including your suggestion).
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Level 95
Jan 8, 2021
solved 100% and 2:08 to spare.
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Level 90
Jan 9, 2021
Exeter should definitely be renamed Teerex
+3
Level 77
Jan 9, 2021
"Kingston" should not be included for Kingston upon Hull. "Kingston" generally refers to this Kingston in London. "Kingston upon Hull" is usually referred to as just Hull (like the football team).
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Level ∞
Jan 9, 2021
Obvious mistake now fixed. Thank you.
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Level 80
Jan 10, 2021
I struggled with two. The city I have lived in most of my life and the city that gives the county its name. Slightly troubling.
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Level 43
Feb 10, 2021
As someone who is not from the UK, my football knowledge helped me here HAHA
+1
Level 73
Feb 11, 2021
Official name of Stoke is Stoke-on-Trent
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Level 65
Feb 11, 2021
This could almost be a Massachusetts town quiz as well
+2
Level 63
Jan 9, 2023
The joys of New England and England having the same cities
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Level 37
Feb 12, 2021
20/20 finally!!
+4
Level 53
Aug 14, 2021
Some of these look like legit Welsh town names even when mashed up
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Level 38
Jan 9, 2023
Like Evrltnompoawh?
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Level 62
Jan 8, 2023
A little update needed to add the three new cities for the Platinum Jubilee, I think. (Not including the names here to not spoil it once they are added.)
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Level 68
Jan 8, 2023
Needs more time. Unless you intend people to work them all out in advance and then type them in, which really makes a time limit redundant.
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Level 66
Jan 9, 2023
There's nothing worse than copping one in the iretecles.
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Level 46
Oct 2, 2023
i got them all except salisbury, which i worked out within the last second but didn't have time to type it xd