Question

Can the word "RATES" be played from the letters A, E, O, N, R, S, T as the first move in a Scrabble game? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

ATONERS
bingo

Answer 2

Is atoners my ans?

Answer 3

they can I just don't know what they want you to explain because all the letters are available to spell it

Answer 4

I think this is just a creative way of asking the question, "Do the following elements belong to set A?"

Answer 5

define creative

Answer 6

@Algebraic! definitely gets extra points for using all seven letters, though.

Answer 7

Creative (in this context, at least) = different from the standard notation.