Five-Dollar Words

There’s an old folk game played on car trips, where you come up with a word using the letters on a license plate, but you must use them in order – BRT can be answered with barrette, for example, but not antidisestablishmentarianism. That often-maddening restriction is at the heart of this persnickety bauble. Given the same three letters in the same order, players will each conjure up a word.…