Change a Word

[Eve]

New Game - change a word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it
e.g.
tins
bins
fins
find
kind
kin

To start....

jar

[L e s]

Jaw

[Eve]

law

[L e s]

lawn

[Eve]

yawn

[L e s]

dawn

[Elly1]

Hello.......
fawn

[L e s]

Hi Elly :)

Awn

[Eve]

Hi Elly :)

own

[L e s]

Town

[MaKa]

sown

[Amie]

sows

[benhenry]

Vows

[L e s]

tows

[Amie]

tops

[benhenry]

stops





Hey, this is a fun game! I think you should get extra points if your word is a palindrome

or maybe even "palindrome-like" ... a word that reads as a word backwards or forwards. :wink:

whaddya say pals? :) Ben

[L e s]

steps

[benhenry]

stems

Hi, Eve? May letters be added inside the perimeter, or just at the ends?

Eg: steeps for L e s' steps

[Amie]

I think we can add them where we like as long as the original order is not changed. :)

steams

[benhenry]

streams





I think we can add them where we like as long as the original order is not changed. :)

steams

Thank you. :)

[Amie]

streaks

[benhenry]

steaks

[Suze]

steals

[Amie]

seals

[Suze]

ales

Edit... Suze... you are not supposed to change the order of the letters, just add a new one, take one away, or change one letter for a different one. :)

[Silly Billy]

ayes

[Amie]

apes

[Jan*]

tapes

[Eve]

tames

[Amie]

games

[Jan*]

gates

[Eve]

mates

[Amie]

mats

[Jan*]

bats

[L e s]

baths

[Jan*]

paths

[Amie]

pathos

[benhenry]

patios

[Eve]

patois

[MaKa]

patris

[Amie]

paris

[L e s]

parish

[MaKa]

pariah

[Amie]

parial

[benhenry]

patois
patios


Hi Eve, I'm having a meltdown here... :cjlol:


Change a Word ----
New Game - change a word by either
changing, adding or removing a letter in it


"Either" followed by the three choices implies to me that only one choice may be taken according to the rules...

Sort of like: Provision 11 does not allow any nuclear powered vessel to enter ... even if it does not carry nuclear weapons, and is just utilizing an evironmentally clean energy resource. :thumbs:

"A" letter in the word implies to me that only one letter may be changed, added, or removed, during a lawful turn... :)

I have studied possible methods for turning "patios" into "patois" but each time I try... the transposition of letters requires 2 moves.

I apologize if there is a legal move that I have overlooked that would allow the transformation of the one word into the other... but it may be that it was not within the rules.

As the administrator of the games section, wouldn't it would be within your power to re-examine the rules... perhaps modifying a provision that is not conducive to the progress of what we would like to achieve for the future??? :cjlol: :thumbs: :cjlol:

[benhenry]

partial

parial

[Amie]

martial

[Silly Billy]

martian

[MaKa]

Marian

[Eve]

Hi Eve, I'm having a meltdown here...


Quote:
Originally Posted by Eve
Change a Word ----
New Game - change a word by either
changing, adding or removing a letter in it




"Either" followed by the three choices implies to me that only one choice may be taken according to the rules...

Sort of like: Provision 11 does not allow any nuclear powered vessel to enter ... even if it does not carry nuclear weapons, and is just utilizing an evironmentally clean energy resource.

"A" letter in the word implies to me that only one letter may be changed, added, or removed, during a lawful turn...

I have studied possible methods for turning "patios" into "patois" but each time I try... the transposition of letters requires 2 moves.

I apologize if there is a legal move that I have overlooked that would allow the transformation of the one word into the other... but it may be that it was not within the rules.

As the administrator of the games section, wouldn't it would be within your power to re-examine the rules... perhaps modifying a provision that is not conducive to the progress of what we would like to achieve for the future???
Shame on me for breaking the rules :) I stand corrected. I have mentioned before that I can't count. I will use the 'neither confirm or deny' excuse regarding whether I carry any brain cells.


maria (A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon, in case anyone was wondering)

[Jan*]

mafia

[benhenry]

mania

[L e s]

Maia

[Eve]

Gaia

[L e s]

Gaya

[Eve]

gayal

[Amie]

bayal ........ (A highly resistant fiber used to make furniture and baskets.)

[benhenry]

banal


hahaha I know what you are thinking about doing to that word up there! I dare you! Go ahead! hahaha :cjlol:

bayal ........ (A highly resistant fiber used to make furniture and baskets.)


Thank you, :amie: That darn "y" in the middle was killin' me!

Gamers... if you are like me and have a hard time keeping up with the more erudite members :eek: of this game... you might be interested in this tool:

Convenient Context-Menu Dictionary Search (http://www.mypcclinic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10056)

:)

Ben

[Jan*]

canal

[Amie]

carnal

[Jan*]

carpal

[L e s]

carpale

[MaKa]

Carpole



Item: CARPOLE
Plastic Car Pole

The pole is 17"" height, made of flexible plastic that it will not break even at high speed driving. Made in USA

For only $0.85

[Amie]

Cariole.....light one-horse carriage or cart;

[benhenry]

Carinole..... anti-carcinogen found in brocolli and brussels sprouts, particularly useful in protection from some types of tumors formed in the mammary glands.

[Silly Billy]

Farinole - a vacation resort in Corsica

[Eve]

Silly Billy - looks like you have us stumped. You are declared the winner :thumbs:

Anyone like to start with a new word???

[Silly Billy]

WoW!

Just like the lottery.

I'll restart with bill

[Eve]

gill

[MaKa]

girl

[Amie]

gird

[Jan*]

bird

[benhenry]

birl





It is a LOT harder than you would think.


Hey, congrats, Bill! :) I don't know... I don't think I've ever actually seen anybody WIN one of these games before... :thumbs:

[Suze]

twirl

[Jan*]

swirl

[benhenry]

skirl

[Jan*]

skirt

[Amie]

shirt

[Jan*]

short

[L e s]

shore

[Amie]

share

[Jan*]

shake

[Eve]

shade

[Amie]

spade

[benhenry]

spare

[MaKa]

spark

[Amie]

stark

[benhenry]

shark

[Breezy]

shirk

[Eve]

shire

[Amie]

shore

[Eve]

snore

[Silly Billy]

I wasn't trying to win. The words got longer and harder to alter.



snare

[Amie]

spare

[benhenry]

stare

spare

Hey, now... I guess there isn't anything specifically in the rules about repeating a word... ( Post #85 (http://www.mypcclinic.com/forums/showpost.php?p=108071&postcount=85) )

and there are many different "spares" I think. Spares in bowling, spare; as in show mercy, spare; as in having an extra... but still... :amie: , :wink:

[Amie]

stare



Hey, now... I guess there isn't anything specifically in the rules about repeating a word... ( Post #85 (http://www.mypcclinic.com/forums/showpost.php?p=108071&postcount=85) )

and there are many different "spares" I think. Spares in bowling, spare; as in show mercy, spare; as in having an extra... but still... :amie: , :wink:
Well Ben, you know what they say about great minds think alike. :)

[Eve]

Hey, now... I guess there isn't anything specifically in the rules about repeating a word..
Nothing at all, the rules simply state change a word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it

Maka - not quite sure how you got 'hire' from 'stare' :):)

start

[Jan*]

share

[Eve]

Well Ben, you know what they say about great minds think alike.but small ones seldom differ :cjlol: ....only joking.... :) quoting my mother :jig:


shard

[Amie]

shared

[Eve]

Or you can be 'driven spare' I used to drive my mother spare - so she said. Can anyone explain the saying ?
I found it used here by John Cleese (as Beethoven). It is a very funny sketch. John Cleese is visiting NZ soon :)
http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/mynahbrd.htm



sharer

[Amie]

shearer

[benhenry]

spearer






:linda: to all. :wink:

[MaKa]

speaker



Something is goofy and not posting my replies. I had replied to #90
with hire, but it went awry. Sorry, Eve.

[Amie]

sneaker

[Jan*]

sneakier

[Amie]

snakier

[benhenry]

shakier

[Jan*]

shaker

[Eve]

shaken (not stirred :jig: )

[benhenry]

shaven (not waxed :jig: ) :cjlol:

[Eve]

haven (not heaven :))

[MaKa]

raven

[Amie]

raved

[L e s]

craved

[MaKa]

braved

[benhenry]

brazed


.
(This is not related to cooking, which is spelled differently, I think... this is a type of welding... soldering actually, that you use in the joints of copper-to-copper fittings... or for other alloys that need high quality, manual joining with a hand torch and soldering= brazing.)

Oh jeez... now I'm hungry.

[Amie]

brazen

[L e s]

braze

[Jan*]

blaze

[Amie]

blade

[Eve]

blame

[MaKa]

blare

[L e s]

flare

[Eve]

flame

[Amie]

flambe

[Eve]

flambe

:doh::hairpull::thinking::dim::?::bored:

Having problems with this one Amie :)

[Amie]

:doh::hairpull::thinking::dim::?::bored:

Having problems with this one Amie :)
http://www.rackmount.org/~wendel/animated/mutley.gifI can think of two possibilities. :)

[Eve]

Been and done a stack of ironing and all I can think of is flambed
Is that a word though? Flambed pancakes?I don't know.I think it is :)

flambed

[Amie]

That is fine Eve and so is this. :)

flambeed

[Eve]

Mon Dieu, j'ai des problèmes assez avec l'anglais, français est pire.:egg:Je vais à flambe un oeuf :eek:

[Jan*]

lol, I be stuck too!

[benhenry]

Mon Dieu, j'ai des problèmes assez avec l'anglais, français est pire.:egg:Je vais à flambe un oeuf :eek:

I know exactly what that means, Eve...

My God! Amie is going to win! and that burns my oaf! :)

[L e s]

Well I give up so unless Amie can come up with another word to follow we will have to have another starter word

[Amie]

Oh Gosh, I won this time, so will start us off with a new word. :)

cat

[L e s]

cast

[Eve]

Well done Amie :thumbs:


mast

[L e s]

mist

[benhenry]

moist






Congrats again, Amie! This is starting to be a habit... :)

[L e s]

hoist

[Eve]

joist

[Amie]

joust

[Eve]

just

[MaKa]

dust

[benhenry]

duct

[Amie]

duet

[Eve]

suet

[Amie]

stet

[Eve]

stem

[Amie]

item

[Eve]

Ite (wife of Tate, Indian mythology)

[Eve]

In Lakota mythology, Anog Ite is a daughter of Skan and wife of Tate. She attempted to seduce Wi but failed; one of her two faces was made ugly as punishment. She was also said to have taught the Lakota how to separate porcupine quills and dye them.

[Suze]

the

[Eve]

:hi: Suze, you may only make a new word by either changing, adding or removing a letter in it. The order of the letters must remain the same.
Ite could therefore become mite, but not the :)

[benhenry]

mite :wink:






In Lakota mythology, Anog Ite is a daughter of Skan and wife of Tate. She attempted to seduce Wi but failed; one of her two faces was made ugly as punishment. She was also said to have taught the Lakota how to separate porcupine quills and dye them.

Eve! You constantly astound me. I have a minor in Cultural Anthropology. Ok, no big deal, but I loved that field even more than my major. I never received a score less than excellent on any class or course, test or evaluation. And yet, I learn so much from you... aw shucks... whatever happened to that little smiley that stood for embarrassment? I need a good blusher very often around here...

[Jan*]

mate

[Eve]

Ben, I could say that was from by vast store of knowledge but of course it's from my friend Mr Google, not me :) I can't even separate and dye porcupine quills.



fate

[benhenry]

faze


Ben, I could say that was from by vast store of knowledge but of course it's from my friend Mr Google, not me :) I can't even separate and dye porcupine quills.

fate


I bet you could if they were Maori pricklypigs. :wink:

[Eve]

I am not sure about maori prickly pigs but the Kunekune pig is a wonderful animal. If I had enough space I would have one or two as pets :) Look here http://www.geocities.com/nzsanctuary/kune.html and here http://www.pigparadise.com/kune.html
KuneKune means 'very fat and very round'


fazed

[Jan*]

lazed

[Eve]

mazed

[L e s]

Maze

[Eve]

mace

[L e s]

male

[Eve]

mare

[L e s]

mane

[Eve]

lane

[L e s]

lance

[Eve]

dance

[L e s]

dancer

[Eve]

lancer

[L e s]

lancet

[Eve]

lanced

[L e s]

laced

[Eve]

faced

[L e s]

facet

[MaKa]

faucet

[Amie]

fauces ......The passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx.

[benhenry]

faces ...... those funny-looking things on the front part of the head.

[L e s]

paces

[benhenry]

pates

..... those funny-looking things located on the top of the head. Some, but not all, have fur or hair. :wink:

[Eve]

pater

[MaKa]

pâte

[Amie]

spate

[Suze]

tapes

Suze please explain how you managed to get from spate to tapes by only changing one letter, adding one letter or taking one letter away, without changing the order of the letters :?:

[Eve]

skate

[Amie]

skite ... New Zealand slang, to boast, boasting, bragging

[Eve]

skite ... New Zealand slang, to boast, boasting, bragging People who skite can also be known as 'a skite'.No one likes a skite :) so I will not skite about anything :) A common phrase is 'he's/she's got nothing to skite about'.


skit

[Amie]

spit

[Eve]

s... - no, better not use that one :rolleyes:


split

[benhenry]

sprit ... that one should be good for changing!.


..It is a spar that is smaller and runs diagonally, instead of horizontally...like the main spars; and is most commonly used on the bow (bow sprit);

Or the "spanker" :cjlol:

[L e s]

sprite

[Eve]

spite

[L e s]

spate

[MaKa]

spade

[Amie]

shade

[L e s]

shader

[Amie]

shadier

[L e s]

shakier

[Amie]

shalier

[Eve]

shalier ??



halier (A unit of currency in Slovakia)

[benhenry]

holier

... comparative form of holy.


Always makes me think of socks, though. My mom had a small wooden "thing" shaped nearly like a foot that she would slip into a sock to darn it. Through the years I've become adept with a needle and thread. Necessity; not desire. that small hand carved wooden "darner" has sure been a valuable tool. It keeps our socks from being holier-than-thou's. :wink:

[Amie]

shalier ??


shalier..... Definition. comparative of shaly as in.....The reservoir in the well consists of two rock types: laminated shaly sand (found at the top and base of the reservoir) and a shalier, bioturbated sand

[Amie]

holder

[benhenry]

colder

[Amie]

scolder

[MaKa]

solder

[Amie]

soldier

[Eve]

soldiery

[Amie]

soldierly

[Eve]

:huh::doh:

[L e s]

Time for a new word I think Amie






again :doh:

[benhenry]

Oh man! Amie wins again? Oh well, I guess it wouldn't be any fun if it was easy.

[Amie]

http://pages.prodigy.net/indianahawkeye/newpage26/20.gif Me !!!!! :wink:

Snow

[Eve]

Well done again Amie
snog :)

[Eve]

Amie - dont 'skite' :cjlol: :cjlol: :cjlol:

[MaKa]

smog

[Amie]

smug

[Eve]

mug

[Amie]

tug

[Eve]

bug

[Suze]

Amie sorry about my booboothe other day but I thought we could also just rearrange the letters

bud

[Eve]

bus

[MaKa]

busy

[Eve]

bust

[benhenry]

busty







Eve!
Quick definitions (Snog) verb: snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others


Others? This sounds suspiciously like a spooning menagerie a traw... memirage of twau... oh heck....

MORE than TWO !!! :cjlol: :cjlol: :cjlol:

[Eve]

well! my dictionary only says snog=smooch or spoon with no mention of numbers :)


busby

[L e s]

busy

[Eve]

buy

[L e s]

bay

[Eve]

hay

[L e s]

has

[Eve]

had

[L e s]

head

[Eve]

heed

[Amie]

need

[MaKa]

reed

[L e s]

Teed

[Eve]

weed

[Amie]

weld

[Eve]

meld

[L e s]

geld

[Eve]

gelt

[Amie]

pelt

[Eve]

melt

[Amie]

smelt

[benhenry]

smell

[Eve]

smelly

[benhenry]

skelly
--- Scotland cross-eyed: with a squint or with crossed eyes

[Eve]

skell