Change one letter of the last word posted.
You can NOT add letters or use foreign languages..
(example: foot - boot - bout)

boat

boat = boar

boar => bear

Bear = Bean

Bean = Mean

Mean to Meal

Meal => Meat

Meat to Melt

melt = Pelt

pelt = Delt

Delt = Deli

Deli -> Dell

Dell - Bell

Bell - Belt

Belt -> Felt

Felt to Fell

Fell to Fall to Ball to Bail

okay I'll give someone else a shot now.

Bail => Boil

Boil=Coil

COIL => FOIL

foil= fail

fail = hail

[This message has been edited by Art Jacobsen (edited 7/18/2006).]

hail --> mail

Mail - Tail

Tail to Rail

Rail to Sail

Sail to Soil

Soil to Boil

Boil -> Foil


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tin foil is handy too:
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

Foil = Fool

Fool = Cool

Cool - Coop

coop = cook

cook to look

look to book

Book to Boot

boot to boon

boon-moon

MOON => LOON

Loon to Soon

soon = soot

soot => toot

toot to trot

trot to trod

trod to prod

prod=plod

plod - plow

PLOW => FLOW

flow -> flop

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Good game Salli - thanks for starting it.

[This message has been edited by Hal Neumann (edited 7/20/2006).]

Flop - Flip

Flip to Flit

Flit - Flat

flat-flaw

flaw to flan

flan = clan

clan - clay

clay = play

PLAY => PLAN

plan to plat

Plat to Plot

plot=clot

Clot -> oops, *THAT* won't work

Clot -> Clop

clop=clap

clap - clip

clip = slip

Slip - Ship

Oooohh, it's so tempting to add a "T", but

Ship=Shop

Ok...I'll add the "T"

Shop to Shot

Ben

shot = shod

shod - shoe

shoe -> sloe*

*the fruit or gin - not witted

sloe->slough

Richard - you screwed it up - go back to the top and read the instructions!


sloe - slow

slow to snow

snow => snob

snob > boss

[This message has been edited by rosemary (edited 7/22/2006).]

[This message has been edited by rosemary (edited 7/22/2006).]

can you move the letters around like that????

BOSS => BOGS

I don't think so. Let's get this game back on track.

snob=knob

knob -> know

KNOW => KNOT

KNOT - KNIT

KNIT => SNIT

SNIT => SNIP

SNIP > SNAP

snap=snag

SNAG => SNUG

Snug => Slug

slug - slum

slum => slim

slim to slid

Slid >> Slip

Boat to Coat

slip -> blip

Blip - Clip

clip -flip

clip -flip

clip -flip (geez-sorry guys, one of those mornings. ugh)

[This message has been edited by jackie (edited 7/24/2006).]

flip = flop

so does the game end when one matches the first entry?

flop - slop
[This message has been edited by jackie (edited 7/24/2006).]

[This message has been edited by jackie (edited 7/24/2006).]

Slop - Slot

slot = plot

Plot --> Ploy

Might have been interesting to try it with a rule that you couldn't reuse a word that had been used already. This one can go on forever just recycling words.

PLOY => PLAY

play=pray

pray - tray

tray --> fray

fray -> gray

gray => gram

gram => cram

cram = clam

clam=clad

clad - glad

glad-grad

GRAD => GRAB

grab=grub

grub - grue

grue -> true



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Re: grue

Thanks Jackie - that's a word I'd never encountered before.
http://dict.die.net/grue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ue_(color)

true - tree

tree - free

to Hal... no problem. actually, i had to go searching for that one too. Phew! You can thank my dear mother and her crossword puzzle addiction.

free - flee

Flee --> Flea

flea => plea

plea=pled

pled -> pleu
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okay, I don't know if this will count. I was just trying to find one for Jackie that was the equal of grue
http://www.urbandictionar...?term=pleu
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if it seems too bogus, then I'll go with:
pled -> sled

sled -> slew

slew => slow

Slow --> Slop

slop - slot

(gosh Hal, i don't think they went for it. nice try though.)

slot= snot

snot --> snit

snit -> snut

if you're not that adventurous, then we can go the mundane route:

snit -> snip

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But I do like snut, seems like it could be a handy word:
http://www.urbandictionar...?term=snut
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>>(gosh Hal, i don't think they went for it. nice try though.)

Jackie . . . I'd say that some folks are just so snut, but I don't want to offend anyone and cause problems

snut => snug

snug=slug

slug - slum

slum=scum

scum-scam

scam - slam

slam=slim

slim => slit

slit=spit

I wonder how many permutations we have to go through before we've covered all the four letter words in the English language?

spit -> guano....no, no, that's Spanish. How about spit -> spat.

spat => spar

spar - scar

scar--star

scar--star

star=stab

stab - stay

stay - slay

slay - sway

sway - away

away - abay

As in: "abay \A*bay"\ ([.a]*b[=a]"), n. [OF. abay barking.]
Barking; baying of dogs upon their prey. See Bay. [Obs.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, c 1996, 1998
MICRA, Inc."

abay -> eBay

eBay-easy

easy - east

east => last

last-past

past-fast

*Barb & Sue-it's so nice to see you girls playing together.

[This message has been edited by Richard Bonine, Jr (edited 8/9/2006).]

fast - fist

FIST => MIST

mist - mast

mast----cast

Cast --> Cyst

cyst - cost

cost - lost

lost - loft

Loft --> Soft

soft -> foot

Now that we're back to the initial example word (foot), can we quit this?

[This message has been edited by Chad (edited 8/10/2006).]

foot->boot

No Chad, we can't!

boot - boom

We can't quit because Chad substituted too many letters in one move...

boom - book

Kate,

There was no rule about where the letters are placed, only that one letter is to be changed to make a new word.

book -> kook

kook - nook

Chad - you are right! I missed the rearrange...duh.

nook => zook


Maybe only in MC is this a word.

I'd have to say that's pushing it a little, but

Zook --> Rook

rook = room

room-zoom

zoom=>moos

since we're now allowing rearranges:

moos => some

some => most

Is there bonus points for Antonyms?

most - post

post - lost

Lost --> Loss

loss - slow

slow-->slew

slew---> glew. Just kidding, this is only acceptable if you went to grade school in Glendive.

Slew-->slaw

Slaw --> Claw

[This message has been edited by Levi Forman (edited 8/15/2006).]

claw - walk

walk - talk ... we've come a long way from boat. ...

from "talk" to "balk"

balk to balm

"balm" to "calm"

calm => calf

calf - flab

flab=>blab

blab - bulb

bulb = club

from "club" to "blue"

blue - belt

belt to felt

felt to melt

melt to meld

(Ok, so I was bored...sue me)

from "meld" to "geld"

geld => gold

Okay... I have been thinking about this. Given that there are 21 consonants and 5 vowels in the English language there ought to be a mathematical formula to calculate the number of permutations for four letter word combinations. Any math wizards out there want to give us the answer.

>> Any math wizards out there want to give us the answer.

It's Sunday morning, I'm not even going to think about that kind of math - even if I had the skills to do it

Myself, I'm betting there are a whole lot of them enough to keep this game going for years.

This person seems to think that there could be around 450,000 four letter words in the English language. Quote:
"there are 456,976 four letter combinations (if you ignore capitalization). Among those are some groups of almost entirely nonsensical words; are quadruple letters (aaaa or zzzz) 676 single/triple (abbb, dbbb, or yzzz) 676 double/double(ttrr or gghh) and another 676 triple/single (bbba, bbbd, or zzzy) that's 2054 total letter combinations which if you only worry about spelling and not meaning takes away approximately 2054 words (there may be quadruple, single/triple, double, double, or triple/single letter words I am over looking but if there are a couple in these categories than they can be made up by the inevitable nonsensical single/single/single/single or single/single /double words) leaving 454,922 though there are probably still many 4 letter combinations I could rule out - I can safely say there are not more than 454,922 four letter words."
http://www.answerbag.com/....php/69716

I've no clue if this person is correct or not. Heck, no one can even come up with a reasonable guess on how many total words there are in the English language:
How Many Words?: How many in the language and how many
does any one person know?
http://www.worldwidewords...owmany.htm
How many words are there in the English language?
http://www.askoxford.com/...umberwords

The most 10 most frequently used letters in the English language (in order of frequency) are E T A O I N S H R D. Maybe the way to make a game like this challenging and place some limits on it, would be to ban the use of the three most frequently used letters: E T A.

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gold -> fold

fold => folk

folk - yolk - Now in a sentence. "This game is becoming a yolk."

yolk -> yodl

That's the phonetic spelling!

yodl - yowl

yowl - bowl

bowl => bolt

bolt>-molt

molt - mold

mold - cold

cold - told

told - toad

toad -> goad

goad - goat

goat -> boat

boat - boot

boot - bolt

bolt-jolt

jolt-colt

colt-cola

cola --> cold

cold - sold

sold-fold

fold-food

food- fond (as in fond of food )

Fond - pond

pond - bond

bond -> bone

[This message has been edited by Levi Forman (edited 11/5/2007).]

bond - band


(BTW don't you think it a little sad that the best attended thread on the forum is about nothing?)