Notes from the organizer: We continue with a Touchdown LA and players must again link their words from round to round, this time by ensuring each word they declare begins with the last letter from their declaration in the previous round.
If you fail to make this link, the word with which you failed to score with does not count towards your total and you will be docked 10 points, but you can continue to be starting to link again. As per round 1, you should link to word you should have linked to previously and ignore the invalid word from the previous round.
IMPORTANT - To count, words need to be a minimum of 4 letters again, anything 3 letters or below won’t count and will also incur the 10 point penalty.
The Q and X are the bonus letters this time. Anyone using either anywhere in a word in their game (whilst scoring with that word) gets 5 bonus points for each (only 10 bonus points maximum available for the first use of each, you don’t score more bonus points the more you use them).
An example game would be:
RELATION
NEVER
NIGHT (No score as NIGHT doesn’t begin with R, 10 point penalty)
ROYALLY (Begins with the R the previous word should have done, so back on track)
YACHT
TORQUE (5 point Q bonus)
EQUATE (no Q bonus, already given for TORQUE)
EXTRA (5 point X bonus)
ACTUAL
LOVING
GAOLER
RHYME
EEL (Only 3 letters long, so no score and 10 point penalty)
EVENLY (back on track with the E that RHYME ended with)
YONDER
ROUNDLY
YELLS
STOPS
SHAKER
RITUAL
Game score: 96 (includes +10 Q & X bonus points and -20 penalty points)
Florence C-L holds the all-time record for ‘Start At The End’ with a score of 140 points in 2024.
Full leaderboard can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GbMgZiPM3Sf8HcUqhsfy3L4Fz4AQ_BTb/edit?gid=818273497#gid=818273497&range=A1:O1
Good luck!
Runs from: 1 – 8 November 2026. Format: Touchdown Letters Attack. Matches: One-off. Level scores: Tie-breakers played. Approved.
Matches: 54. Completed: 5.
Fixtures: 54. Played: 5. Unplayed: 49.
Fixtures: 54. Played: 5. Unplayed: 49.
Key. Green: winner. Red: loser.
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