DOLLAR WORDS

I was recently introduced to dollar words and decided to see if our family could come up with some. The rule is that each letter in the alphabet is assigned an increasing monetary value, with letter "a" worth $.01 and "z" worth $.26, and your goal is to come up with words that total $1.00 exactly. I wrote all the letters and values on a whiteboard, then we spent a few minutes trying to figure out some dollar words while we waited for friends to come over yesterday. We only had time to come up with two, which we've written on the board since taking this picture, but we plan on adding more as we come up with them. It's spelling and math, along with a side of healthy competition and boredom prevention. Perfect!