A game to play to while away the work hours.
Send word ladder combos in emails to your work colleagues! Well, unless your email is monitored! Then I’m sorry, your job sucks! Work them in your cubicle while the boss is or isn’t looking, depending on how much you like or care about your job!
S’fun and s’guaranteed not to get you fired. But what do I know about anything? I don’t even get HIRED because of my prejudice against puppets. Because I’m a puppetist? A puppist? A puppophobe? Whatevs. Because I hate puppets.
Okay.
The rules are simple: Pick any two four-letter words, and by changing one letter at a time, turn the first word into the second. The catch is that each variation has to also be a word.
For example:
Atom → Bomb:
atom, atop, stop, slop, slob, blob, boob, bomb.
Oreo → Milk:
oreo, ores, ares, ales, alms, aims, dims, dams, dame, dime, mime, mile, milk.
Eels → Sand:
eels, ells, elms, alms, arms, arts, ares, area, aria, arid, grid, grad, goad, good gold, gild, mild, mind, rind, rand, sand.
For competition, see who can solve a set the fastest, or who can make the fewest permutations. You can try five letter words, pippa, but don’t come crying to me if you slit your wrists over it.
Here are a few to try:
Keys → Lock
Drum → Toms
Holy → Oven
Happy changing!
Keys
Leys
Lets
Lats
Lass
Last
Lost
Cost
Coot
Cook
Cock
Lock
(Leys is questionable, as ley is another spelling for lea)
Drum
Dram
Tram
Team
Teem
Tees
Ties
Dies
Dims
Dime
Time
Tome
Toms
I’m sure someone can do better (i.e. less steps)
Holy
Hold
Told
Toed
Teed
Seed
Sped
Aped
Oped
Open
Oven
Yes I have no life…
What an idiot, I am… in the last entry Aped is obviously superfluous as you could go to Sped directly from Oped
Uh, there went my lunch hour. Here is my first try:
keys kegs pegs pigs piss pass mass mask task tack lack lock
Sorry, guys! Why did you go into moderation?? I don’t know! These are good. Muy bien!
I mean, you can pick any words you want as long as the letter count is the same, obviously.
blog -> post
blog
blot
boot
loot
lost
post
Swell, just what I need, another addictive pastime. *grins*
I LOVE word ladders!
KEYS
kegs
legs
logs
loss
lass
lack
LOCK
DRUM
dram
tram
team
teas
tees
toes
TOMS
HOLY
hold
held
heed
seed
sped
oped
open
OVEN
When you play a lot of Boggle you get on runs like this all the time.