You may add or delete only one letter, and you may scramble the letters to form a new word.
Example:
SKIM
MILK
MILE
Here we go!
BRAIN
PATINA
(If we're wanting re-arrangement, isn't this more properly Anagrams rather than Scrabble(R) ?)
Or "SCRAMBLE"
But, I'm confused on the rules. You said "add or delete one letter", but in your example, "skim", the two given, "milk" and "mile" do not have added OR deleted letters, only changed letters! So, are the choices to add, delete or change one letter, and rearrange if desired? Here are mine:
BRAN (shea.. he he)
BAIRN (love that word!)
ROBIN
BARING
And continuing from Alex Williams's:
LASING
Yep,it's not clear. From the example it looks like the amount of letters should stay the same. Take and give one or scramble.
No?
BRAIN
NADIR
DRANK
PRANK
SPANK
PACKS
LACKS
LICKS
SKILL
SKULL
SCULL
CULLS
CLUBS
BLUES
BLUSH
SLUSH
Personally, I'm not too hung up on ROOLZ. The simpler the better. Ah, what I had in mind was to scramble AND / OR add or delete a letter.
LUSTS
SUGGEST
Its getting longer.
TUGGLESS
(I never did either, but it does get about 35 g-hits)
SLUGLETS
(Believe it or not)
GULLETS
I see another one there.
TUGGLESS ( + R ) goes to STRUGGLES, too.
Or LUSTY in addition to STYLUS above.
...after LUSTY can come SUBTLY
Finally, one I can do: BUSTLE.
unable to make it into something having to do with "buffalo" - but are we allowed to refer to the Bud overindulger as BREWFUL ?
Couldn't resist the followup: FURBELOW, as in "frills and..."
Er--dropping one AND changing one: FLOWERY.
I assume we can't go back to Lusts now. So this is more like the game of Telephone we used to play when were kids.
Okay, then:
From Bowser=
Worse - delete
Bowels- delete and add (may we do both? add and delete? I'm still confused)
Towels
I assume we can't go back to Lusts now.
Well, we've already gone back once, nevertheless, we shall continue forward.
This from Coffebeans original roast:
You may add or delete only one letter, and you may scramble the letters to form a new word.
BOWSER
WORSE
WORST
Original Roast - I like that!
WORST
which could take us back to that original ROAST !
but for a more piquant flavor let's move onward with
WURST
Can't resist: THRUST (add one)
...................RUSTS (change one)
...................RUST (delete one)
...................ETRUMEUS TERES (slip-in-a red-herring one)
SCOURS
COURTS
TROUTS
SPROUT
TROUPE
POSTURE
STUPOR
sheesh, give people a chance, eh?
It ends in stupor Olly, but im PROUT of you.
STOUR
sheesh, give people a chance, eh?
Well, I figure there are more than enough words for all and sundry to enjoy.
It seems like one of those open ended games that can go on forever.
Oh, you're just a ROUSTabout!
How can I take a bath? I'm TUBLESS !
Which is less painful than being BUTTLESS
Which is less painful than the STUBBLES on my hubby's chin against my baby-soft cheeks... :0)
Which is less painful than the STUBBLES on my hubby's chin against my baby-soft cheeks... :0)
oh, so that's why your buttocks itch!
/cross-threading and running away
You better run, you, you, COWARD!!!
Glancing back with a mischievous grin he,....
STUMBLES....
and BUMBLES when he hears RUMBLES...
and falls into blissful SLUMBER
Unlike our mate the PLUMBER
plumbers
plumpers
PLUMPEST
-joe (the plumber) friday
PLUMBER
BUMPER
UMPIRE
PRIME
PRIM
RIM
I'M
Mmmm......
I
I'D
DIM
DIME
MEDIA
DIADEM
ADMIRED
Takes two changes to get "diameter." Rats.
------------------------------------
Darn. That fishy one is severely MAIMED
how many miles to go to diameter now?That would be tre!
I had a set of bookends that were supposed to match but didn't - they were
MISMADE
Here is one for Helen [running away fast]:
DALEISM
Och,Helen, Dale_ IDEALISM
We're repeating ourselves - call a MISDEAL, throw in the hand, shuffle the cards, and start over with seven fresh ones.
SHANANA
We're repeating ourselves - call a MISDEAL, throw in the hand, shuffle the cards, and start over with seven fresh ones.
SHANANA
I had Georgia on my mind...
SAVANNAH SANTANA --> ANANIAS
ANAMNIA Whew, that was a toughie!
ANAEMIA
May one be fanciful?
A A MILNE
I have a DELATION: you guys had an interesting variant going above, but you've reverted to form.
Its all to do with the current DEFLATION you know!
my '59 Edsel had glorious TAILFINS.
True friends graciously overlook my FAILINGS.
or PALING into insignificance.
oh you guys, always PALLING around.
Because we are all so LINGUAL.
Would we be UNGALLIC if we were divided into only two parts?
Change the N to an O - that's LOGICAL !
Which is predictably all quite
COMICAL
Your COMICAL account deserves ACCLAIM
That was a toughie!
LACTAMIC
If there's a "miniskirt," can you have a MINICOAT ?
No, wait: AMNIOTIC !
What the hey, no one else is following the rules...
ANTICLIMACTIC
Sorry, I missed that, what rules didn't get followed?
Scramble or scramble and add or delete one is not the same thing as scramble and add six letters. Rools ? Flagranto delicto.
The puzzle where you can use all the given letters as many times as you like is called a "letter bank."
Example: LENS --> SENSELESSNESS.
But that's a different game.
If there's a "miniskirt," can you have a MINICOAT ?
No, wait: AMNIOTIC !
A riddle I remember from the '70s:
What do you use to put out the fire of Hot Pants?
Answer: a Panty Hose !!
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
The puzzle where you can use all the given letters as many times as you like is called a "letter bank."
Don't like the word "bank".
ANTICLIMACTIC, twosleepy, you are reckless, (
reminds me of someone)
How will you restore this mess?
MINIMALTACTIC ?
I think the game needs to continue here with AMNIOTIC.
If folks want to start a new thread for the other word, that would be great.
Enough of your INACTION , let's keep it going!
...sneaking back in....shhhhhh....brainfart all gone.....
DIATONIC
:0}
COMITIA is the best I can do....
Hang on, let's get the roolz again please?
Is it scramble and add OR delete (one only)?
Or can you scramble and add AND delete, or in other words substitute (which is what we've done several times)?
If it's only the former then we're stumped with COMPACT
But since we used the latter to get from APOMICT (COMPAIT, COMPAT, COMPACT) presumably we can use the latter?
DUNNO. I've taken it to be scramble and add or delete only one. So you don't bring in or delete two letters in one change. but.......other idea's? As far as I can see wofahu has changed an I for a C and scrambled.Looks alright to me.
This was the original proposal as set forth by coffeebean:
You may add or delete only one letter, and you may scramble the letters to form a new word.
Ha, ! here is where it gets complicated for me. When you have changed an I for a C , have you then deleted and added one and scrambled or.....? Or have you just changed one and scrambled?
you may change a letter. you may also delete or add a letter. you may also change the order of the letters.
all of those things can happen in one round.
least that's how I read the roolz.
but you know me and roolz. read my double dactyls if you don't/
a change == an add + a delete
so the roolz allow two adds + a delete, or two deletes + an add
I'm sure I've seen two changes (two adds + two deletes); but who can keep track?!
a change == an add + a delete
so the roolz allow two adds + a delete, or two deletes + an add
I'm sure I've seen two changes (two adds + two deletes); but who can keep track?!
I think I disagree. you can add a letter. you can delete a letter. you can change a letter, but I don't think you can add two letters, nor delete two. nor change more than one.
eh?
a change == an add + a delete
so the roolz allow two adds + a delete, or two deletes + an add
I'm sure I've seen two changes (two adds + two deletes); but who can keep track?!
I think I disagree. you can add a letter. you can delete a letter. you can change a letter, but I don't think you can add two letters, nor delete two. nor change more than one.
eh?
eta earlier> "you may change a letter. you may also delete or add a letter."
I say again, a change is equivalent to a delete + an add..
so if you "also delete or add a letter" that's equivalent to yada yada yada.
Is that a word? It's not in my Concise Oxford.
Here's one:
compart In Spanish,
compartir means "to share". :0)
hmm... I suppose it's more economical than 'compartmentalize' but I think that's the real life version of the word. Or maybe 'petition' or 'divide.'
But is it in the Scrabble Dictionary?
COMPARE
(that oughta loosen things up a bit)
CRAMPON ...take a hike... ;0)
a change == an add + a delete
so the roolz allow two adds + a delete, or two deletes + an add
I'm sure I've seen two changes (two adds + two deletes); but who can keep track?!
I think I disagree. you can add a letter. you can delete a letter. you can change a letter, but I don't think you can add two letters, nor delete two. nor change more than one.
eh?
eta earlier> "you may change a letter. you may also delete or add a letter."
I say again, a change is equivalent to a delete + an add..
so if you "also delete or add a letter" that's equivalent to yada yada yada.
I think I'm probably agreeing with you now.
a six letter word could have a letter changed, but if changed, it could not also have a letter added to become a seven-letter word? is that what we're saying?
"I think I'm probably agreeing with you now." I'm glad I'm not the only one with roolz problems.
I'll be back in a few days to see if someone can put this real clear. Say, clear enough for a six year old person.
This was my intention:
You may make one change, and/or scramble the letters.
A change would be to delete a letter from the existing ones, to add a letter to the existing ones, or to swap one for another.
Examples:
PARTY can become PART. We deleted a letter.
PARTY can become TRAPS. We swapped a Y for an S.
PARTY can become PARITY. We added a letter.
PARTY cannot become TRAMPS because that is making two changes - deleting the Y and adding the M.
Just focus on making one change, and the scrambling (reordering) of the letters does not count as the change, only the addition or deletion or swap does.
Yeah, there were a few times the "one change only" rule was overlooked or forgotten. In the interest of keeping the game fun, we kept going.
We've done pretty well -- only hit a sandbar twice, I think.
CRAMPON ...take a hike... ;0)
You've got
COMPANY!
>PARTY cannot become TRAMPS because that is making two changes - deleting the Y and adding the M.
you were doing fine with your examples until here..
PARTY can become TRAMP, changing the Y to M swapping the M for Y (also known as deleting the Y and adding the M). :-P
PARTY cannot become TRAMPS because that is making two changes - changing Y to M swapping M for Y and adding S!
(this is why I stressed that changing makes for an ambiguous count - I should try to be more ron and less ambiguous!)
-joe (not so obvious) friday
CRAMPON ...take a hike... ;0)
You've got
COMPANY!
COPEMAN
Change the P of COPEMAN to an R and enjoy a
ROMANCE
Yeah, there were a few times the "one change only" rule was overlooked or forgotten. In the interest of keeping the game fun, we kept going.
We've done pretty well -- only hit a sandbar twice, I think.
Anarchy is not fun.
It can be if you're the anarchist...
Just focus on making one change, and the scrambling (reordering) of the letters does not count as the change, only the addition or deletion or swap does.
Thanks , I think that's how I probably always understood it. Sorry to say my computer turned into a pinball machine. Please keep the game going. Next week there will be serious repears.
(Help, it's got a life of it's own!)
ABDOMEN ---Two more minutes granted obviously
Change the M to an R and BROADEN your outlook!
For tomorrow I will be ENROBED to sing in the choir!
For tomorrow I will be ENROBED to sing in the choir!
I'll
ENDORSE that!
...and afterward you UNDRESS.
(Is there some pull toward seven-letter-words? These last seven have all been Bingoes. No fifty-point-extra-bonus for us Virtual Players, unfortunately.)
Rest ASSURED, I always have something on underneath... ;0)
The simple change of A to B reveals DOUBTERS
the BOUTTLERS did it.
-ron o.
On the assumption that only one change was made - change O to U - and scramble (I think that's what we've consensused the transformation should be) I now remove the second T and make something SUBTLER.
And on the grounds that butler really has only one 't' anyway I'll simply scramble it again to BUTLERS which is where we should have been after our TROUBLES.
even more
SUBTLERLovely photo Branshea
Tsuwm defying the rules?
WHISTLED back by wofahu?
back to 8 , could it be stretched to 9?
I think hustled to whistled is two changes isn't it, a substitution and an addition? HUSTLED + W - I + U = WHISTLED
I suggest instead SHUTTLED.
SCUTTLED again
Well, DUCTLESS we shall be ( but hopefully not in the tape department!) ;0)
Swap the C for an O and it becomes toussled.
Yes, I see that now .I unintentionally defied The Rules. Blame shame sorry
. Skip whistle.
Uh, CoffeeBean, my dictionary only gives
tousle with one s. ( to treat roughly) Is there another toussle and what does it mean?
So twosleepy, DUTCHESS inevitably! And any time now computer brake down can make this game DUTCHLESS.
In my neighborhood there used to be a bunch of "TOUCHLESS Car Washes." [change D to O]
(And J&J made OUCHLESS Band-Aids...) [delete T]
afterthought: If we discipline ourseves to define the changes, we'll have less to cavil about regarding observing/flouting the Roolz...
From TOUCHLESS to SLOUCHIEST
Ouch!What a word! Can you also get us out this dead-end-street-of-a-word again, The inFallible?
Yes Wofahu, it's clear and also a good self-check to tell what was done.But how will the last one be undone?
SLOUCHIEST
Replace L with N and rearrange to get
TOUCHINESS
(or is that putting us farther into a hole?)
Guess not. At this point I realize it's a wordgame in a foreign language. I see my limit. I've really been putting effort to it. Over eight letters I loose
track.
I think Fallible roolz! Sheesh! I wasn't even gonna try to make something from "slouchiest" (but of course, I did try...) and I gave up after a bit. And there he goes and pulls one out of his euphemism... Aaaargh!
And Bran, you made an error that people who speak English from birth make all the time: lose vs. loose. You meant "lose" (not to win, or to misplace) rather than "loose" (to set free, to give slack). They are pronounced differently, also, although apparently many people think they are homonyms. They are not! At least you have a good excuse! :0)
TOUCHINESS
Remove the C, rearrange, and get
OUTSHINES
Yours might be shiny but mines
built like a brick
$#!+HOUSE
Assuming antipodean vulgarities are allowed...
What a pity one flies sorties and not soughties.
So let's see...change the I to an O and scramble for
HOTHOUSES!
...change one H to a U and rearrange to get
OUTHOUSES.
Now somebody tell me why that's a perfectly acceptable term, but S#!+HOUSE had to be disguised to avoid the Gutter Police...?
...change one H to a U and rearrange to get
OUTHOUSES.
Now somebody tell me why that's a perfectly acceptable term, but S#!+HOUSE had to be disguised to avoid the Gutter Police...?
It's quite simple. British class system. The good old anglo-saxon terms for things, like SH*T became associated with the vulgar, English speaking peasants, whilst the French and Latin terms for various bodily functions (such as faeces) were quite acceptable because that's what the upper crust said.
I'd like to drop a few SHOUTOUTS to my peeps on AWAD
I'd like to drop a few SHOUTOUTS to my peeps on AWAD
U --> O and rearrange:
OUTSHOOTS
Ach, towspleepy, (sorry , this typo is a gift, I keep it, please don't shoot) I lose and loose simultaneously. I'm cut loose mostly by this my rebellious computer. I have to wait for my troubleshooting nephew, who has developped an unwelcome passion for Opera and is always off on mini trips to the the mayor Opera Houses of Europe. Fierce bad habit!!!!
Shoots!
Drop the S pilgrim.
SHOOTOUT at the OK Coral
SOURTOOTHS would be a nice word if it were a word, but I don't think it is, so... anyone think of a real one?
Uh, CoffeeBean, my dictionary only gives tousle with one s. ( to treat roughly) Is there another toussle and what does it mean?
Sorry folks! Guess I should have checked my spelling!
The
SHOOTOUT was painful because I was
OUTSHOT .
That's an easy one (though I was never much good at it)...SHOTPUT
Well, then did you ever OUTPUSH someone?
May I've been pushed out, but never outpushed. Things are certainly getting outsourced.
UNSHOUT the noise that banish'd Martius...
Change the U to another O, rearrange, and you're in HOUSTON
[ "hew-stun" in Texas, "how-stin" in NYC, take your pick ]
While I'm in Houston, I'll have some HOGNUTS with my cuppa Joe!
While I'm in Houston, I'll have some HOGNUTS with my cuppa Joe!
TOUGHS
HOUR (how low can we go?)
HOUR (how low can we go?)
Depends on
OUR aptitude. This could be one of the all time longest threads.
My grandmother used the term sourtooth, so it may be a word. Sort of like "down in the mouth". How long is the longest running thread???
This crazy, but am enjoying it.
Thath funny, lath out loud.
OATH
Not listening [reading]! One may add, delete, or replace a letter. Multi-step definitions of 'replace' do not alter the option list.
TOTALS
TOTALS
Change O to E, rearrange and get LATEST, which is the word that should be modified.
Now if we can only work tht into "satellite"...
(Stoa is wild oats, did you realize?)
My grandmother used the term sourtooth, so it may be a word. Sort of like "down in the mouth". How long is the longest running thread???
Now you tell me! It's less dubious than some of the other contenders here!
STALEST
ARTLESS
STARTLES
TREATLESS
THREATLESS
There you go, back to 10...
Sheesh! Give someone else a chance! And did all that mess get us to SATELLITE or not? Is it all a waste??? ;0)
STALEST
ARTLESS
STARTLES
TREATLESS
THREATLESS
There you go, back to 10...
HEARTLESS.
(I don't think we are quite at SATELLITE yet.)
Yes that was heartless to take us back to 9 again!
firefighting would be a good one to aim for too... but not with the present bunch of letters...
TEARLESS, (reculer pour mieux sauter)
Actually having _too_ many letters makes the choices a lot more limited. Six to eight letters or so would be a comfortable range, I should think, for optimum word selection and audience participation.
We're at TEARLESS, but I did figure out a three-step uses-a-proper-noun solution from LATEST to SATELLITE, which unfortunately this margin is too small to contain.
...
LATEST + E = SEATTLE
SEATTLE + L = STELLATE
STELLATE + I = SATELLITE
...
So hold your tears and lets get on with this never ending pretty and useless game. still intrigued about your steps to satellite
i also changed the E to T Olly, and came to startles, but i like
STARLETS better. My computer is still off for reinstallation. This, my son´s one has a malfunctioning keyboard. It´s getting me from the drizzle into the rain.hope you keep it going.
Hope I'm not repeating: TARTLETS, a seasonal treat... :0)
Oh, and is there an injunction against proper names?
Frankly my dear.......Well, it is a form of scrabble.
Branshea:
...highlight the space between the ellipses, if you like, and all will be revealed...
PS Jackie: when did USER HAS EXCEEDED PM LIMIT get activated?
Whoa, a quota of 20,000, dats a lodda messages.
RATTLES delete a T
I know it's spelt wrong but it's too enticing to resist -
change M to S and jump to SOMERSALT.
(A two-step change L->H and M->G gives us HOGMASTER!)
One could almost, but not quite make immortalise from maelstrom. You can make IMMORTALS though.
IMMORTALS
change T to F and get
FORMALISM
(or M to F and get FORMALIST, for that matter)
Change I to A and Presto, you're an
ALARMIST !
...
Add an E and make MATERIALS
...
You always come up with a Fiendish challenge
F -> N
TALISMAN
...Umm, I think that may have to be disqualified - to get from LATINISM to TASMANIAN you need to change an I to an N, change the L to a second A, and add yet another A. Only one change allowed!
Try again?
LATINISMAdd S and get
STALINISM Writing out the change will help you stick to the roolz.
S -> A
ANIMALISTAnother A and you get TALISMANIA
Now I know where to find this link: under scrabble.
Are there rules, or is it too far gone to make sense of it???
The Roolz are:
You may
1) add a letter OR
2) remove a letter OR
3) change a letter
AND THEN
4) scramble the new set of letters into a new word.
Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL
Thus:
MALAISE
drop the E
MISSAL
bzzzz!
where'd that second 's' come from? (or, that's two changes!)
Quite right. Sorry 'bout that. Couldn't see straight; too much snow. Will the Chair permit me to amend the motion?
MALAISE
drop an A
MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)
MESIAL (at least, that's what my dentist says)
I --> M
LEMMAS
Change A to I and you can sing it:
MELISMA
Really a song I do not know? Melisma?
Melisma is a musical term for singing many notes on one syllable. An example would be chant or "Amen".
MELISMA - think of the word "purify" in "And He Shall Purify" from Handel's Messiah, or the word "born" from "For Unto Us a Child is Born," or "easy" in "His Yoke is Easy," or "turned" from "All We, Like Sheep."
MELISMA
change an M to an R and get
REALISM
Never knew this music term existed. Looked up the Dutch word.
Quite SIMULAR (E change to U); melisme. (from Greek)
Alas, it takes 2 letters, but SIMULAR plus another A and a P gives us MARSUPIAL !
SIMULAR
change M to T
RITUALS
( I like that better than adding a T and getting MURALIST. )
(take about three steps to turn it into SATURNALIA, and from there one step to NATURALIST)
But within the roolz -
TITULARS - drop the U and make STARLIT
Happy
TRAILS this holiday season to all. Be safe. See you all in a few weeks. Its a sunny summer and we're off to the lakes camping with the kids. Yay!
Happy
TRAILS this holiday season to all. Be safe. See you all in a few weeks. Its a sunny summer and we're off to the lakes camping with the kids. Yay!
L --> T
STRAIT
STRAIT
change T to E
SATIRE
for happy trails up here you need good TIRES.
because of driving STRESS
because of driving STRESS
Luke,
TIRES to STRESS is two changes, I think.
TIRES --> TRESS --> STRESS
But continuing from STRESS,
Add an E, TRESSES
Luke -
Try doing it with the chages identified; that will make you aware of the steps.
TRESSES
add, or drop or change one letter
change one S to a T
rearrange
STREETS
Hey:
Finally got someone to pay attention to me !
I feel so neglected some of the time.
Tell me the rules, PLEASE.
Luke
Oh, my, I thought that's what we had been doing. Several times.
Rules:
Start with a word. It contains a bunch of letters.
(Some letters might be there more than once. Consider each repetition to be one letter. STREETS has E,E,R,S,S,T,T = seven letters.)
You may a)add one letter, or b)drop one letter, or c)change one letter to another. Only one of those three choices
Then you may, if you like, rearrange all the letters of the new bunch into another word.
The next person starts with that word and applies the rules again.
And so it goes.
Hey what happened to my last post? I posted something after STALINISM but it has disappeared.
drop an e, give it a REST
drop an e, give it a REST
If I replaced E, I could STIR up some trouble.
drop an e, give it a REST
If I replaced E, I could STIR up some trouble.
Assuming you have and it's not just a hypothetical...
He adds an 'E' and
TRIES to keep this moving.
TRIES
Wouldn't want to make this into some sort of sermon, but...
add a P and get a PRIEST
...
How much ya wanna bet PIASTER is the next word?
...
I prefer STRIPES (adding S) but if you PERSIST in adding 'S' you could make 'persists.'
Take the second S back out - don't you think the ESPRIT is more appealing, 'specially this time of year ?!
Oh, my, I thought that's what we had been doing. Several times.
Rules:
Start with a word. It contains a bunch of letters.
(Some letters might be there more than once. Consider each repetition to be one letter. STREETS has E,E,R,S,S,T,T = seven letters.)
You may a)add one letter, or b)drop one letter, or c)change one letter to another. Only one of those three choices
Then you may, if you like, rearrange all the letters of the new bunch into another word.
The next person starts with that word and applies the rules again.
And so it goes.
thank you
wofahulicodocI was trying to follow the strain,but could not seem to figure out the pattern.
It was there, but I could not quite see it.
Thanks for helping out
(ps Javan is my middle name: use it because it is easier to spell than
my surname. But no offense taken. Thanks for responding.
I shall try to contribute intelligently, when I can think of
something.)
How about
SPRITE
as in elves? Does that play count?
Sorry, you guys, I see you were giving me the rules
and I either ignored them, or just breezed past them,
thinking it was more of the scrabble game, and not
understanding it, just kept on moving. Thick-headed;
that's me.
How about
SPRITE
as in elves? Does that play count?
It counts; it's an anagram of ESPRIT. The rules say you
may add, delete, or change, not that you
must, and to rearrange ESPRIT into SPRITE is within them, though it's not what we've been doing most of the time.
Again may I offer that if you discipline yourself to state just what you did to get from start to end, you will readily confirm that you've committed no violation.
SPRITEadd an A
PIASTER There - I did it myself!
PILASTER +L
(wonder if the next word will be a saurian plural?)
BTW - apropos of not seeing the Roolz until now - I suspect it came from starting at the most recent posts in the thread and not seeing that already scrolled up the screen and out of view because of four or five intervening posts there were messages specifically in response to one of yours. I guess that's the reason they invented Threaded as opposed to Flat viewing.
(P.S. Mr Panjandrum: does this venue support threaded viewing? I haven't looked very hard, but I don't recall seeing it anywhere.)
REPTILES? Sure, but I like Ted Williams better:
PILASTER
change A to N
SPLINTER
(P.S. Mr Panjandrum: does this venue support threaded viewing? I haven't looked very hard, but I don't recall seeing it anywhere.)
yes, it does. go to MyStuff/Preferences.
INTERPOL
add another E
REPLETION
add an [unwelcome] R ...
INTERLOPER
add an [unwelcome] R ...
INTERLOPER
R to A
PERITONEAL
L to S gets you
PROTEINASE
PROTEINASE
add a D
DESPERATION
W00WH! BEAUTIFUL PURPLE COFFEEFLOWERS!
Ten letters is just too many to work with freely!
DESPERATION
Drop an O
PEDESTRIAN
drop the A and you've been elected
PRESIDENT
Ah, yes, purple iris are my favorite flower!
...dropped the second E and SPRINTED
(that's a long way from PEDESTRIAN for just two letters!)
...dropped the second E and SPRINTED
(that's a long way from PEDESTRIAN for just two letters!)
...oh I don't know... have you never observed commuters in a major city as the clock ticks towards 9am?
SPRINTEDN to I
SPIRITED
N for S
INTREPID
intrepidly into the new year!
INTREPID
Be INSPIRED by exchanging by swapping T for S
INSPIRED
Form a committee, add a G, and you'll be
PRESIDING
...
change S to A and get
DIAPERING
...
"Yet, in these thoughts myself almost ..."
R to S gives
DESPISING
DESPISING
add an N, said the pharmicist, mix well, and you'll soon be
DISPENSING
DISPENSING another M
can lead to MISSPENDING
Methinks the game is over.
I'll be RECKLESS and start another!
Methinks the game is over.
I'll be RECKLESS and start another!
S --> F and move to front
FRECKLES
R to S and move to back > FECKLESS
FICKLENESS
Add an I and smuggle in the extra N ( no one will notice ), scramble.
I am still watching this, and hope to contribute
something soon. You folks are great at word scramble.
FICKLENESS
Add an I and smuggle in the extra N ( no one will notice ), scramble.
FOUL! FOUL!
Gosh, bad luck,I really was hoping no one would notice.
R to S and move to back > FECKLESS
K --> A
FACELESS
replace F with N to get
CLEANSES
+I and jumble for
SCANTIES
Something in scant supply here at the moment: INSECTS
(If I'm out of whack, tell me, please)
N to K and scrabble letters:
ROCKIEST
Been a while. Going to give it another try....
ROCKIEST
Drop O
Sticker
Scrabble
Tickers
From STICKER, C-->T to get
SKITTER
FROM SKITTER
DROP ONE T
FOR
KEISTER
What's a Keister? Is that a New Yorkism?
My understanding is that it refers to the area of the body served by the gluteus maximus muscles... ;0)
I don't believe it's a "New Yorkism", or even confined to the USA. Here's a link from Phoenix:
keister It supposedly has European derivation. :0)
Yes, that's it, Two sleepy.
Ass, rump, buttocks, etc. I suppose it's kind of slang.
But originally was used as: suitcase or bag....
The origin is unknown though
German- Kiste
Yiddish- kestl
I agree with 2sleepy and don't think it's use is limited to NY, but perhaps more popular there.
KEISTERchange an E to an R
STRIKERfootball/soccer player...discontented Union worker...assaulter...
Lucifer*-igniter -- take your pick.
*(see fourth paragraph)
STRIDER in the nudes? Oh no, that's streaker ,well ,anyway...
STRIDER changed S to I and now it's
DIRTIER
Dropping an R makes it
TIDIER
My understanding is that it refers to the area of the body served by the gluteus maximus muscles... ;0)
I don't believe it's a "New Yorkism", or even confined to the USA. Here's a link from Phoenix:
keister It supposedly has European derivation. :0)
Certainly not a New Yorkism, used frequently on the Great Plains.
RETIED
change I to S
DESERT
S for R - DETEST (bookkeeping)
TESTES
(sounds like a breakfast cereal.)
Available in the petshop? Add R- SETTERS
LETTERS
change an E to U
TURTLES
Drop a T and RUSTLE up some new words
Drop a T and RUSTLE up some new words
Does one have to drop a letter? The letters "rustle" also spell LUSTER.
you should make one change (other than shuffle); e.g., add an F and get FLUSTER (otherwise you're just making anagrams)
FLUSTER
add another F
TRUFFLES !
TRUFFLES
OMIT T
for
RUFFLES
R becomes N. - SNUFFLE
(Snuffles wasn't a bear exactly. He was a pseudo ursine. He was big and clumsy, and bounced around on four legs, and then on two. He was friendly, chillingly so, for he was huge. And he snuffled like some old track-eating train. R.A. lafferty.)
SCUFFLE
change L to I
SUFFICE
time to DIFFUSE the situation
C -> D
DIFFERS
change F to N
FRIENDS
FRIENDS ...can be sweet but so are
FRIANDS
(E to A)
We'll have a gas, if we drop the T.
SARIN
SARIN
another I would have us
RAISIN cane, or dried grapes, or what-you-will
Hang on, RAISIN was submitted from SARIN before RINSE was, so going from RAISIN, and raising it one letter, gee we get...
RAISING
BEARINGS
change B to T and get
TANGIERS or ANGRIEST or GANTRIES or GRANITES or INGRATES or GASTRINE or ASTRINGE or... (fades off into the night)
leds go to O Olly,
STRONGER
leds go to O Olly,
STRONGER
R --> W
WRONGEST
WRONGEST
becomes the
STRONGEST
WRONGEST
becomes the
STRONGEST
That's actually 2 changes: W changes to T and add an S.
WRONGEST can become STRONGER by swapping W for R.
that's where we were before WRONGEST!!
(maybe it's time to start over, with a new thread..)
SORRY FOLKS, I SCREWED UP. Meant to change it before I left this morning....
I could be wrong, but I can't come up with anything after WRONGEST.
Can anyone else? Does that mean FallibleFiend won the game!
I've never been around when we've arrived at a stalemate. Cool.
WRONGEST
change S to I
TOWERING
We ought to be able to go on from there.
WRONGEST
change S to I
TOWERING
We ought to be able to go on from there.
But not the only one!
ORANGEST (W --> A)
ESTROGEN (W --> E)
STURGEON (W --> U)
STRONGER (W --> R)
SONGSTER (W --> S)
And those are just replacing the W. There must be tons more, but I got tired... So, no stalemate, Fauve! :0)
I 'specially like "estrogen" and "songster."
TOWERING
Carry on!
I bow to your Scrabblenessess, two and wofa! I had the feeling my giving up would bring out the ScrabbleBraniacs! Well done!
add an F
FLOWERING
Sorry for the many posts: Just learning how to edit. Hope this
works. If not, I'll try better: Hope no one is offended. And
I am not interested in running up a posting score: I gave up
competition when I retired. It's too tiring.
that's where we were before WRONGEST!!
(maybe it's time to start over, with a new thread..)
No tsuwm, this is the long never ending nightmare thread.
drop L -
FOREWING
drop the W and it's FOREIGN
It is the thread that never ends -
it just goes on and on, my friends.
Somebody started posting here not knowing what it was,
and we'll continue posting here forever just because
it is the thread that never ends . . .
(adapted for scansion)
...the thread that never ends -
it just goes on, my friends.
You started here, not knowing what it was,
and we'll be posting here
forever and a year;
it is the thread, the thread that never ends . . .
FOREIGN
Or, you could just drop the F and
IGNORE the whole thing...
>ignore
yeah sure.. thanks a lot for the earworm!
o to a - REGAIN
..and drop the i for ANGER
that song does start to GRIND (A-->D) at your nerves.
Please gimme back that A, Z! to DARING
I could be wrong, but I can't come up with anything after WRONGEST.
Can anyone else? Does that mean FallibleFiend won the game!
I've never been around when we've arrived at a stalemate. Cool.
I don't know which was wrongest - Fauve's mistake in going from wrongest to strongest, or the word 'wrongest' itself! Oh wait a minute I just pulled the rug from under me didn't I...
I adds to DARING
for RAIDING which is often daring.
Nasty, nasty....
painer trying again... panier
um.. twosleepy is that a dictonary word or commonly used at all? Of course I want to move on to the PAINTER now that the occasion
is presented.
I fixed it, Bran, and you don't have to change yours at all; it still goes. :0)
I now I can put PANNIER
I'm sure you will be as happy making your baskets and your nappies as I am making my paintings. I could'nt be
HAPPIER.
(did we cover all the appiers now?)
(did we cover all the appiers now?)
aside: SAPPIER
-joe (or, not all the important ones) friday
(did we cover all the appiers now?)
aside: SAPPIER
-joe (or, not all the important ones) friday
Not quite (another aside:) Harpies would be
Flappier than some.
/end aside
HARPIES plus S =
SHARPIES(which is a real word and has at least three separate meanings)
PHARISEES... oooh, thats a keeper.
S --> L
SHAPELIER
SHAPELIER
...and she has the
PEARLIEST teeth, too!
and that's just the APPETISER, if you then change the L to a P !)
APPETISER
add z for the plural alternative spelling
APPETIZERS
Grutsjmeu word !
Oh , well just
APPLETIZERS (not brilliant but pretty sparkling )
Just to try to get this back down to manageable levels I'll commandeer two steps, and trust that someone after me will continue:
APPLETIZERS
drop a P and get
PLASTERIZE
change the Z to an S and get
PSALTERIES
Well done Wofa.
PSALTERIES
I -> R
PLASTERERS
Those plurals are perilous.
Add L
TRAPSELLER
Forging into the "seller" group:
ARTSELLER
Sold! I for the L > RETAILERS
BranShea, you big sneak! I was just about to post RETAILERS!
Ha ha!
Drop an E and you get TRAILERS
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let Fifty cents
TRAILERS
change the L to another I and get
RARITIES
Hey, what happened to my fledgling "seller" group? Sheesh! I was awaitin' for RATSELLER, especially... then TARSELLER, TEASELLER, MEATSELLER, TEAMSELLER, MATESELLER, MATSELLER, TAMSELLER, MAPSELLER, AMPSELLER, oh, nevermind....
Git yer mind outta the cellar!
drop the I and become ARTSIER
drop the I and become ARTSIER
In changing R to N I'm becoming
ANTSIER at all these dubious words...
ANTSIER
You'll just have to RESTRAIN yourself
added an R
RESTRAIN
Change I to G. DId you ever see anything
STRANGER ?
Careful someone doesn't turn into a
STRANGLER
T to W and move the S
WRANGLER
T to W and move the S
WRANGLER
Where to? Siberia?
Now it's really getting
GNARLIER
Drop L and shuffle
REARING
REARING
change the I to another A and re-ARRANGE
Nice to see some order in the game again, sorry to disturb,
B for N >> BARRAGE
...after all my [R-->G]
GARBAGE above, you mean?
BEGGAR
change B to D and presto!
" 'Round the rugged rock the RAGGED rascal ran!"
(BADGER is still there if you want it)
RAGGED
hmm, should I do BADGER as BRAGGED about earlier? Have I DRAGGED my brain for anything not quite so obvious? Then there is FRAGGED, a word for a not very nice practice coined during the Vietnam War. Let's see... no, I have
GAUGED the situation and decided to exhange R for U.
Ohw!. Barrage led to baggers , rags and no riches. Let 's ARGUE (R for G) for the way up.
EAGER to agree. ( U --> E ) Seven to nine letters seems to give the most flexibility.
five letters to four?
GEAR
or perhaps
RAGE
...and I was so hoping someone would follow with REGGAE. No such luck.
Oh well. Onward!
add an L to AEGR and get
LAGER
Crown LAGER is a REGAL beer, but we need more letters so allow me to REGALE you with this one by adding an E
You can have your beer and REGGAE too. ( G for L )
(have your cake and eat it too)
(Don't look now, but we're going in circles. The Pook followed it with GAUGED last time.)
RAGGED
change G to D and get
GRADED
DEGRADE
change D to N and we'll meet a
GRANDEE
Add E the outlaw grandee RENEGADE
A RENEGADE might possibly use GRENADES after stealing an E and substituting a dangerous S in its place...
Out of the war-zone , A becomes I, DESIGNER
RESIGNED
...after taking out the S, the Grandee
REIGNED again!
pfff.... " three pages of trying to get away from the A " , she
GROANED. - E turned to O
each in his own way, you get a big
A for this one.
each in his own way, you get a big
A for this one.
looks like we need seconds in the time markers!
:¬ )
That doesn't fly! Too many changes from (where we will go back):
GROANEDto
BADGER
That doesn't fly! Too many changes from (where we will go back):
GROANEDto
BADGER if you notice the posting times, Bran and I posted simultaneously, and her post didn't show when my went through. (it was "above the screen")
Okay, then, let's not get
ANGERED... :0)
Does it or does not it escape your combined observation that the O is LOST again? :0 ? Oh, Lost, gone, off. Stuck with the A for ever and a day.
from GROANED to BADGER Hu ? How? COFFEEBEAN!)
Somebody stole my vowel.
from GROANED to BADGER Hu ? How?
GROA(N -->)B ED
add an I
DRAINED
afterthought: Do you think among us we can turn this into DANDELION in another three steps?
TRAINED
add a U
URINATED
then change R to N and get
INUNDATE
Drop D and get
TAURINE ( and please don't kick the U out)
Still have a little apple to peel with twosleepy.
GROA(N -->)B ED
GROANED - change (N -->to B) and you are stuck with BADGOER.
Ain't that bad? !!!
TAURINE
change A to E
REUNITE
Drop D and get
TAURINE ( and please don't kick the U out)
Still have a little apple to peel with twosleepy.
GROA(N -->)B ED
GROANED - change (N -->to B) and you are stuck with BADGOER.
Ain't that bad? !!!
You must have missed that I dropped the
O... go back a page and check! :0)
SERENITY swaps Y for D to become
RESIDENT
RESIDENT
Should I? Huh? Should I?
No, it would be too easy eh!
TENDERISE
hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!
hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!
That Zee is still a bit harsh for my
Tendereyes Maybe I should've gone with President?
This
Tenderfoot eliminates S and Z to
DETERMINE ( SZ becomes mmm M )
hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!
yeah but he's a New Sealander!
TENDERIßE to DETERMINE
Iß the perfecteßt legalleßt exßchange.
Et, you're off your game! She meant it eliminated the possibility of either one, but both were never together in one word, silly!
DETERMINE
change M --> C
INTERCEDE
Do we need to have this
REENACTED?
...change N to O and
DECORATE
DECORATE
A ROCKETED away in favor of K
I pocket this one for a P POCKETED
Bad word.Useless.
DEBTCODE coming up soon to go with our social security number
PICKETED
DEPICTED
Rats. It would take two turns , so we can't get to CENTIPEDE cleanly...
Ah well.
Add an R
PREDICTED
PREDICTED >> D to N PRENTICED >> R to E CENTIPEDE
How many miles to millipede, to go or not to go?
Nice links. Is that "prenticed" as in what happened when Fredrick Was a Little Lad?
I suspect the search for the other 900 legs wouldn't be worth the brain power expended.
In the meantime -
CENTIPEDE
change E to O
DECEPTION
RECEPTION
change E to N and wind up in New Jersey !
PRINCETON
Nice links. Is that "prenticed" as in what happened when Fredrick Was a Little Lad? I suspect the search for the other 900 legs wouldn't be worth the brain power expended.
Who's little lad Fredrick? This prenticed is like in the two dictionaries that have it.
What's the story of Fredrick ? A millipede? A spider of the thousand legs?
When Fredrick was a little lad
he had a web for habitat (?)
" SONG -- RUTH
When Frederic was a little lad he proved so brave and daring,
His father thought he'd
'prentice him to some career seafaring.
I was, alas! his nurs'rymaid, and so it fell to my lot
To take and bind the promising boy apprentice to a pilot --
A life not bad for a hardy lad, though surely not a high lot,
Though I'm a nurse, you might do worse than make your boy a pilot.
I was a stupid nurs'rymaid, on breakers always steering,
And I did not catch the word aright, through being hard of hearing;
Mistaking my instructions, which within my brain did gyrate,
I took and bound this promising boy apprentice to a pirate.
A sad mistake it was to make and doom him to a vile lot.
I bound him to a pirate -- you! -- instead of to a pilot.
I soon found out, beyond all doubt, the scope of this disaster,
But I hadn't the face to return to my place, and break it to my master.
A nurs'rymaid is not afraid of what you people call work,
So I made up my mind to go as a kind of piratical maid-of-all-work.
And that is how you find me now, a member of your shy lot,
Which you wouldn't have found, had he been bound apprentice to a pilot. "
...
(I can cite chapter and verse if you want, but perhaps with the entirety visible that's no longer needed. If you like, you can hear it sung
here )
Ah, a Gilbert and Sulliven Musical.
If
PRINCETON is allowed why not
PINKERTON too? (C to k )
I can't make another word using only one change.
Nor can I,no matter how I try to get tinkertoy into it.
You did not ban proper nouns in the rules, but we have mostly avoided them. On this page there are 2 in a row. They could be declared invalid and we could go back to RECEPTION. But I haven't tried PINKERTON yet...
By all means, return to RECEPTION.
Pinkerton is as useless as Princeton. Proper nouns out? Fine with me. Good luck.
By all means, return to RECEPTION.
Pinkerton is as useless as Princeton. Proper nouns out? Fine with me. Good luck.
I'm not routinely into this thread, although I occasionally read it.
As a matter of history, while Pinkerton was/is a proper noun, it became a common noun as well. An agent (spy or counter-spy) of the Pinkerton organization employed by the US Federal Government during the War of Northern Aggression, otherwise known as the War Between the States or the Civil War, became known as a "pinkerton."
if we're going to pink nits on this, Pinkerton is usually capitalized, after Allan Pinkerton (died 1884 American detective: private detective). AND proper noun, a noun that designates a particular being or thing, does not take a limiting modifier, and is usually capitalized in English.
I don't think you can call Pinkerton common. even derivatives such as Pinkertonian and Pinkertonism are capitalized.
OTOH, a quick perusal of the previous five(5!) pages of this thread reveals the following (I'm sure I missed some):
Shanana Santana 'A A Milne'! Houston Tasmanian Stalinism Interpol Tangiers
I'm sure I miss them all.
two,times'up. drop C EREPTION
EREPTION ??
(too lazy to look it up)
Oh well.
add an S and
INTERPOSEaddendum: I looked it up and now have it on
good authority that it really is a word.
PINKERTON
M for K:
PROMINENT
PROMINENT
change N to U
IMPORTUNE
(Sorry, you asked for it!)
If we were indeed playing Scrabble (r) we wouldn't be allowed to use proper nouns.
IMPORTUNE
drop M for ERUPTION
ERUPTION
Change U to S
PROTEINS
(I would have preferred to add a C and make it into CUPERTINO, home of that upstart computer company, but okay, I'll go along with you anti-capitalists)
PINKERTON M for K:PROMINENT
For the brave! I really thought Pinkerton was a dead end street.
RIPOSTE to
POINTER S to N
PORTING
change T to U
IN-GROUP
(15 onelook.com dictionaries include the hyphen; ten omit it)
Uh? Back to U for I POURING
Nuts. Takes two steps to get to PEIGNOIR...
OK. if evolution
(
feathers and furs and glossy scales and what did we get?) God/Creation, whatever your beliefs, had provided us with a nice cover of permanent fur, I would not have made this stupid remark. But as it is, are you sure it takes only two steps? How do you undo a U and add an E and an extra I in two steps only?
OK, then
POURING
change I to W
GROWNUP
(it's the opposite of "litle kid")
(I agree that Pinkerton should have been allowed, since the precedent for proper nouns was clearly set earlier. It's not Scrabble we're playing!)
I believe the only possible word is the most obvious one, namely adding S to form the plural. You can't make any others by adding, changing or deleting any letters I think?
GROWNUPS
I believe the only possible word is the most obvious one, namely adding S to form the plural. You can't make any others by adding, changing or deleting any letters I think?
Change W --> U
GROWNUP --> UNGROUPfollowing your lead
GROWNUPS --> UNGROUPS
Wait a minute. Let's go back to GROWNUP.
Change G to E and get
UNPOWER.
It can be the obsolete Piers Plowman noun, or the verb for what you do when you remove the outboard motor from your boat...
UNPOWER
P ---> D
REWOUND
Pick whichever meaning you like! :0)
Lot of unning going on. rewound --> U to D DROWNED
D to F
FROWNED
---after 9 inches of snow, and shoveling it, it is hard to see.
...tried to change N to L and make "FLOWER'D" but onelook.com says no go.
Guess I'll have to settle for dropping the W to make
FONDER.
Put the W back and drop the F
WONDER
No one in particular, (or all) just to change course,
N to I -- WEIRDO
Back to the Valentines Day theme -
add S
DOWRIES
drop I- DOWERS- D to L LOWERS -add F FLOWERS
that what you mean?
I did not know you could do two changes in one post.
Great, that helps.
F to G
GLOWERS
Hey, wasn't the last word in the sequence
UNGROUPS? Seems the last Ten posts have been in vain. Mind you, it wouldn't be the first wrong turn
HU? What are you two talking about? It developed neatly on from
ungroupsYou can change a letter and scramble
or add/-/delete one and scramble. So yes two changes JavL.
Mind you, it wouldn't be the first wrong turn
Mind made wrong turn , maybe?
I think Olly was put off by wofa's reversal, "Wait a minute. Let's go back to GROWNUP."
Yep, on closer look sight that was a bit of a strange move, but... was it all in vain? (grin, scrabble thy name is vanity)
Olly, I went back to GROWNUP because of an assertion that we should abandon it and move on as it was un-followable within the rules. My offering was proof-by-counterexample; then we continued from that point.
Not a great tragedy to go either way; it is however the second time recently we've given up too easily, as shown later.
GLOWERS
I'll drop a G and go a bit
SLOWER
(Yes , I see it's been a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time we've been on the same thread)
Rubbing ELBOWS
Drop the B add a V ... too many vowels, make it
WOLVES
LOVER
add an I
OLIVER
(I know we've had some discusison about the permissability of capitalized words, so let me sidestep the entire issue and postulate that I mean "the occupation of one who grows an olive orchard")
that's the pits, wofa.
:¬ )
OLIVER swaps T for R to become
VIOLET
(If we allowed capitals we could make SEATTLE)
I won't go for the obvious teases, but instead swap an s for an a.
teaset > TESTES
S > F
FETTERS
or
S > L
LETTERS
or
S > G
GETTERS
As in 'go-getters'
Add L again TRESTLE (Seattle revisited if you change R for A )
How 'bout we turn an E into a U; then we can have
TURTLES
(You bet your sweet Thailand !)
Oh no , not on my menu. Turtle means long life and good health. No throw into the pot.
OK. if evolution
(
feathers and furs and glossy scales and what did we get?) God/Creation, whatever your beliefs, had provided us with a nice cover of permanent fur, I would not have made this stupid remark. But as it is, are you sure it takes only two steps? How do you undo a U and add an E and an extra I in two steps only?
Well, I wanted to use PIGIRON but there seems to be general aggreement that it's two words, not one, so we'll have to find a Plan B:
POURINGchange U to E
PERIGONadd another I
PEIGNOIR...and now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
TRUEST
RUSSET
change U to S
STRESS
change S to A
AERATES
(can't make just drop an E for EASTER, no matter how appealing; that would be capitalized)
Nah, you can put mine in the E to T TOASTER
I'm going to forgo the obvious once again (boaster) and change the A to E for
RESTORE.
R > K
RESTOKE
...as in the furnace.
Back to peaches and roses? Off with that K, to TEA ROSE?
I believe TEA ROSE is invalid (two words), so it's back to KERATOSE
drop O
RETAKES
Tried to slip in a bitty Du. grammar. Theeroos.
But as it is E to R > KRATERS for mixing whine and rose water.
KRATERS
change R to S
SKATERS
(Has global warming reached the point where the canals no longer freeze in the winter?)
(Has global warming reached the point where the canals no longer freeze in the winter?)
yes - this has been covered here, if you ever stepped outside of SCRABBLE!
simple scramble>> STREAKS (lines, marks ) As streaks left by skates on ice. I've got all the glorious details on skating matters somewhere, but I forgot which thread )
I've searched for repetitions and found striker already so the I-side might lead to repeats.
Drop the R
STAKES
I may be wrong but I think this is the word for an LDS
parish.
Yes, but it's STAKE without the final S if you want to apply it to a single LDS parish.
I'd rather drop the S and just have a STEAK.
Okay, THAT was a big brain fart!!! :0/
Well, since we're talking about teeth...
change S to R and have Netpune's TRIDENT
TRAINED
Drop a D--> RETINA
not wanting to
RETAIN
that wonderful image... ;0)
that's twice in the last week we've simply reversed (dentist and hairnet)..
that's twice in the last week we've simply reversed (dentist and hairnet)..
That's what happens when I try to do a quick drive by.
We're back at RETAIN
How about E->G
GRATIN ?
GRATIN
add another G, get Disney cartoon or irksome noise
GRATING
[on the other hand, change the A to an S and maybe you shouldn't take the kids any more: G-STRING]
Z to G tatter yourselves out of three G's - RAGGING
Who'll get BRAGGING rights?
BEGARRING for rights to brag?
couldn't find BEGARRING in onelook.com - did you mean
BEGGARING?
but I'll take
BEGARRING gladly nevertheless,
because then I can exchange G for H and make
HARBINGERand that reminds me of Spring :-)
Am I not lucky? My mistake does someone a favor.
Though some still are harboring HARROWING images of snow walls. B=W
BTW coffeebean, this game is wonderful to quiet down round-age-10 children without taking refuge to TV or computergames. Four-letter words, they really love to do it. No pen or paper needed. Absolutely gratis.
N to F
FARROWING
--oink, oink
FARROWING
drop the F
ARROWING
further retreat: drop W IGNORER
Drop one more R
REGION
( followed by PIGEON? )
Aside: the color for "pigeon grey" is C0C0C0. Coincidence?
Drop one more R
REGION
( followed by PIGEON? )
Aside: the color for "pigeon grey" is C0C0C0. Coincidence?
Where does it say " pigeon grey "?
I used the third-icon-from-the-right, the A with the spectrum under it on the Reply screen, to change the color of the text from default black. The grey that is PIGEON was "[ color=#C0C0C0]your selected text here[/color ]", and I seized the opportunity to call that color "pigeon gray".
(The grey that was even lighter is #CCCCCC. The letters represent some variation of the strength of the red/yellow/blue that make up the final color, two hexadecimal characters with values from 0123456789ABCDEF [choose one] for each component.)
So pigeons are hot for chocolate? What color is COOCOO? That would seem a bit more pigeony....pigeonish?
NIGER
You called it pigeon. I wondered why you would not call it CUCKOO grey.
PIGEON The fat wood pigeons combine all those greys.
Picking an few nits on colors.
"two hexadecimal characters with values from 0123456789ABCDEF" Oeff!
E to D GRIND
This color is "#C00C00." Not at all grey, as you can see. I don't know what color cuckoobirds are - too lazy to look it up. I consider them big pushy opportunists, the way they lay their eggs in other birds' nests and knock the (usually smaller) biological fledglings out of the nest after hatching...
Apologies for the "hexadecimal" jargon - that was the reason for the GEEK alert.
Oh, yeah - almost forgot what the thread is about.
RIND
add an A
DINAR
RAINED
I must, however, stick up for the cuckoo: "...the majority of species raise their own young." And even if most of them were brood parasites, that's the way they were created, and they really have no other choice. Some of our human ways are mighty offensive to some animals... :0)
INVADERS
change D to O
AVERSION
Won't you have some T, SENATOR?
roseate Is been here before, but... better twice than never.
roseate Is been here before, but... better twice than never.
#182729
ROSEATE page Sorry, wolf, but we need to go back to SENATOR. I suggest you get the first shot. How about searching on this thread for new the words before posting? Maybe that would eliminate duplicates...
I suspect it's not the first time. The game's been around long enough that we're bound to get repetition before very long.
My vote would be that as long as the Roolz have been followed we can let it go, with a quiet inward "I would have done it differently/better" if you like, and just move the game along.
(Besides, SENATOR was my offering in the first place. If I changed it, it would be treason.)
This was just a recent word. Seeking for duplicates is madness. Duplicates forgotten by all have never been there.
This was just a recent word. Seeking for duplicates is madness.
searching the
current page is easy [CTRL-f in most browsers] and could avoid some embarrassment.
This was just a recent word. Seeking for duplicates is madness. Duplicates forgotten by all have never been there.
And who cares anyhow? New people see new words. Is this fun as mentioned in the forum list, or is this
an academic testing of verbiosity?
SENATOR was my offering in the first place. If I changed it, it would be treason
SENATOR
(If this be treason, make the most of it.)
I didn't mean to stir up a (A --> H)
HORNETS' nest.
I did not mean to blow in a NORTHER --add R
I'm going to pass on the obvious HERO and instead swap h for c so I can do some RECON.
If I drop the "E" and change the "N" to an "I" is COIR OK?
Isn't that two changes? (or have we changed to eta's rules? ; )
Going back to reconsider a single change how about adding an I for coiner
coiner
r --> d
IRONED
and eta - you did spell out the rules, even though they're not Steenkin' Roolz
edit: okay, maybe it wasn't you after all. You might as well take the credit, though.
coiner
r --> d
IRONED
and eta - you did spell out the rules, even though they're not Steenkin' Roolz
edit: okay, maybe it wasn't you after all. You might as well take the credit, though.
fair enough!
:¬ )
ahum.. (coffebean...)
E to A > ADORN ****adorned credits
D to C
ACORN
change A to Y
CRONY
CRONY
C-->I = IRONY to get the wrinkly out of your shirty.
Hah, the NOISY cronies > R to S
Guess what it's doing outside, again...
I --> W
SNOWY
(But at least it's March now, and the snow should melt on its own in a day or so)
>(But at least it's March now, and the snow should melt on its own in a day or so)
(ha! what part of the tropics do you live in?)
Even in these parts, where you are required to like snow in order to live here, we LOVE spring, and eagerly anticipate its arrival!
Some people even get
SWOONY
over spring... :0)
Did you mean ASWOON ? Y to A
–adjective, adverb being in a swoon: the duchess aswoon on the couch in despair.
.... and taste good with ketchup.
Sorry, couldn't resist! ;0)
DRAGONS are my passion; I have one in every room, some I made, most hand made, some are from far away lands.... I love them all! :0)
(I always smile over "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus")
DRAGONS, sleeping or otherwise
add an N
GRANDSON
N to O RIGADOON - a lively jumping quickstep
drop G
ORATION Go wherever you want I guess:
drop O > RATION
add S > RATIONS
STORYLINEY --> E
RELATIONS [Edit: No, dummy it's Y-->A
]
Can't resist:
RELATIONS
O --> L
INSTALLER
i can't seem to understand how this game works.
STORYLINE
Y --> E
RELATIONS
and
Can't resist:
RELATIONS
O --> L
Um, say what? I must be an idiot, because I don't get either post!
wofa has been writing with invisible ink!
We should be back at INSTALLER
So do we REINSTALL and reboot?
STORYLINE
Y --> E
RELATIONS
My error - it's Y-->A
Does this mean that my last attempt was again in breach of the rules?
Does this mean that my last attempt was again in breach of the rules?
Not at all. If you go back to post #183519 and select all the text (while selecting make sure you drag down to the bottom of the box) you will see the word INSTALLER appears. Thats where we need to carry on from.
No, and it was a good thought, but you need 2 more letters for "marionettes". What you thought you were doing was fine. I only count deliberate rule breaches...you know... like some OTHER people.... who call people "dummy" even after they already admitted being dense... ya know?
Sooooooooooooo.....
INSTALLER
+ S
REINSTALLS (again, and again, and again...) (oy)
No, and it was a good thought, but you need 2 more letters for "marionettes".
The spelling I used is common, like program/programme or colo(u)r. That was something I checked before posting.
Where'd you find that? I googled and all it came up with were a few username matches, and "Did you mean
marionette?". I've never seen it another way, either, for whatever that's worth... :0)
Moving out of reinstalls via reinstall via L to M to TRAMLINES fffwwt....
Nice avatar Latishya.
TRAMLINES
L --> T
MARTINETS
(we'll get to your "marionette" eventually, Latishya!)
Close but... T to O --> MARONITES to add T-> MONETARIST
Allright, it's too totally tantalizing S to E, MARIONETTE
MARIONETTE
O --> T ATTIREMENT
ATTIREMENT
Too egotistical. Let's take the "I" out of it.
TREATMENT
...the letters of ATTIREMENT, taken only once each, can be arranged to make RAIMENT. (They also make MEDITERRANEAN.)
Edit: no, they don't. No D.
(Go back to TEMPERATE - add an N - get PENTAMETER, iambic or otherwise!)
Don't mind me. It's PERMEATE we're working on.
(Go back to TEMPERATE - add an N - get PENTAMETER, iambic or otherwise!)
Thats a good one as well as.
PERMEATE E-->D
TAMPERED
drop M
PAPERED Or change P to T: TAPERED Whatever. or T to C > CAPERED
OR P to T > CATERED
DECANTER
change D to N
ENTRANCE
wofa>May I come in?
BS>why?
wrong thread?
just adding a non-sequitor.
CENTENARY
change Y to I
NECTARINE
(addendum: It's be Great to change N to H and rearrange but, sadly, no capitalized words allowed.)
Captain Janeway of the starship voyager?
Her too, but I was thinking of the Great one (no, not Wayne Gretzky!)
Her too, but I was thinking of the Great one (no, not Wayne Gretzky!)
At a stretch, his mum was Russian!
At the Canterbury galop.
NECTARINE to E to G
CANTERING ------->
wordhistory
BANTERINGadd an I
BRIGANTINE (a two-masted ship...generally manned by brigands)
BRIGANTINE is the word.
BANTERING Through BALTERING N to L to INTEGRABLE add E and scramble.
It´s all a matter of seconds here.
This ship keeps sailing some way through my mind.
INTEGRITA
I --> E = INTEGRATE*
G --- C = INTRICATE
R --> S = INSTIGATE
*(which is leads to TANGERINE, which is getting close to TANGIERS, that collection of letters once alleged by Martin Gardiner in a Scientific American "Mathematical Games" column to have no fewer than 65 valid anagrams!)
What is integrita? The link points to a word from Czech and I could not find integrita in any of my English dictionaries. Thank you.
I admit it is slightly on the very edge of admittable, but did you try for almost two days to get out of
ingratiate?
I don't mind taking it back, but I'm done with
ingratiate for now.
Well, there's
INGRATIATEE ==> O
GRATIATIONNo, I never heard of the word either, except maybe as the opposite of ingratiation. And there's no listing in OneLook.com either. But there are 2,200ish hits on Google.com, and in particular one might look at Table 2.5
here [drop down four or five screens worth and you'll find it], talking of the "gratiation effect of the Moon since its formation 4.45 billion years ago (bya)" making the Earth's day slowly longer. Hard to judge the validity of the site, though.
Personally I'd just as soon go on from INSTIGATE, but however the consensus would like to proceed is OK with me. (For that matter I'd even go with the capitalized words to broaden our scope, but I'll stay within whatever limits we collectively decide to adopt!) ;-)
I admit it is slightly on the very edge of admittable
Unlike marionet which was ruled not admitable though also used in Czech sources according to Google.
As to MARIONET, I would hope you didn't take that too personally. It wasn't really "ruled" anything, just someone pointing out an atypical spelling, as others objected to my use of proper names. If it had been my word I would have shrugged histrionically, maybe acknowledged that it wasn't a common usage, and either offered it again, or proposed a substitute, or just moved on to whatever word was at the end of the list...but that's just my way. I play this game for my own amusement as much as for the group's.
What should we do with GRATIATION? That's another word of no-more-than-marginal validity. Shall we use it, or chuck it, or go on from INSTIGATE ?
Or if you prefer we might even start from
MARIONET
change I --> Y
MONETARY
Wow! I had no idea I'd managed to create a terminal blockage; I was just waiting for someone to continue and didn't think to try it myself. Doesn't anyone have some etymological fiber?!?!? If no one can make another word, do I win? And what's the prize, anyway? ;0)
INGRATIATE
- A
ITERATING
There. I made myself lose... :0)
INGRATIATEToo late but, Wadaboit! I--> O
TETRAGONIA
Love that type of spinach. Often had it in my garden as it grows easily anywhere.(nice to plant for this year, thanks!)
iterating
I ---> N
NATTERING
(Lawsy, lawsy, but I do ramble on!)
TREATING
Change T --> D and we're still TREADING water
TREADING
drop the D entirely and it's only a stone's throw to
GRANITE
(see how close we are to ANGRIEST and the other 64 anagrams? viz my note fifteen posts up!)
Skipp the anger one. G to O
ASTERION
asterion
the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
I'm going for the easy one!
N-->D = ASTEROID
asterion
the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?
I'm going for the easy one!
N-->D = ASTEROID
The following is a summary of my attempts to play this game to date:
O-->S
DISASTER
DISASTER
A --> S
Any DISTRESS should be a thing of the past - clearly you've got it right, now !
WRESTLES
drop an S and turn up the heat!
SWELTER
Doesn't that depend on (a-->h)WHETHER or not you're in the north hemisphere?
TOILETS
[not remaining unsnarled]
LITOTES
add T > dimming
: STILETTO T to F
LOFTIEST
...jumps around a lot!
LOFTIEST
O --> R
FLITTERS
G to O TRIOLETS
"How Great My Grief" (Triolet)
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!
- Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Nor memory shaped old times anew,
Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee?
Thomas Hardy
Is this yes/not true/ false
LOITERS
R --> A
ISOLATE
(P.S. re "triolet" -- see also
CHORUS:
Oh, dainty triolet!
Oh, fragrant violet!
Oh, gentle heigho-let!
(Or little sigh).
On sweet urbanity,
Through mere inanity,
To touch their vanity
We will rely!
G&S: PRINCESS IDA, or, Castle Adamant, Act I)
A 'shortcut' to the Paleozoic. ISOLATE add T TOTALISE add R TOTALISER add B TRILOBATES A to I TRILOBITES
Oh gentle heigho-let
This one played hard to get.
TRILOBITES
I --> E
BRIOLETTES
BRIOLETTES
B --> I
TOILETRIES
BRIOLETTES B --> I TOILETRIES
BRIOLETTES
–noun, plural -lettes ;any pear-shaped gem having its entire surface cut with triangular facets.(good hogwash word)
This game gives to me many new words.
So, where do we go from here?
TOILETRIES
-I
LOTTERIES
Would you like to go there, Bran? :0)
You mean E to A TOTALISER?1. computer that registers bets and divides the total amount bet among those who won.
TOTALISER is an anagram of ARISTOTLE
...who only TOLERATES these effronteries by the expedient of changing I into E
(except after C, perhaps)
[Somebody want to try changing L to P, and do a little work on those letters?]
OPERETTAS
Today then : OPERETTAS A to R PROTESTER
PROTESTER (That's only two letters off from STEPMOTHER, you know.
Or from TERRORIST.)
change T to R
REPORTERS, mild-mannered and otherwise
I report REPROVERS T to V and PREORDERS T to D
with or without lemon
PREORDERS P-->C RECORDERS
drop C
REORDERS
add P
PREORDERS
PREORDERS , one step back? to REORDERS R to T RESTORED?
RESTORED
add a Y
DESTROYER to chase away the submarines
to say nothing of the pirates off the Somali coast and Gulf
of Aden. More destroyers needed.
to say nothing of the pirates off the Somali coast and Gulf
of Aden. More destroyers needed.
my nephew is on the USS Boxer, so I've been watching this pretty closely.
Like the freed captain, back to homelier things DESTROYER change Y to U
TROUSERED
...warm up the leftovers!
TROUSERED
U-->A
REROASTED
ROSTERED
RESORTED
to mad repetitions?
We already did the "roasting" and "restoring" lines.... :0)
E to U TORTURED by too many re's and ed's maybe?
(did we have this one too already, twosleepy, can you keep track?)
"Your search for 'tortured' returned 1 results." (over the last 1 year in Wordplay and fun)
edit: i.e., the search turned up your post, only.
E to U TORTURED by too many re's and ed's maybe?
(did we have this one too already, twosleepy, can you keep track?)
I can keep track, but I didn't do like tsuwm and cheat and all.... he he... they just looked all too familiar to me, and I looked back a couple of pages, and sure 'nuf, they were there. I don't have any recollection of "tortured", though. tsuwm confirms that... thanks! :0)
TURRETED
- R
UTTERED
Okay, I got it a hair late... :0)
D to X
TEXTURE( + a bann on adding a D or an ASSS
)
(except as a transition word)
TEXTURE
T --> D
EXTRUDE
you did mean a hangy off the end D didn't you?
Yes, scrambled in stead of over easy. X to O DEUTERO
well, where's the dash then? (or, prefixes wouldn't be accepted in Scrabble®)
Try this on for size:
DOUBTER
swap R for L to make
DOUBLET
DOUBLET
Maybe we should put the R back in and take the T out.
BOULDER
BOULDER (Nanu nanu)
I'll take that T thanks! --> TROUBLED
TROUBLED
-O
BLURTED out! :0)
DURABLE
add an O
LABOURED
(Any bridge players here for the next entry?!)
and take a stroll. add V BOULEVARD
LABOURED
(Any bridge players here for the next entry?!)
like in redouble? (a to e)
Indeed REDOUBLE is what I had in mind, but 'tis
not the only possibility so we're now working on
BOULEVARD.
Change A to I
How many Ts are there in "Levitttown"? Too much construction!
OVERBUILD
OVENBIRD
drop the N
OVERBID
Lovely Frost poem, but parrot refered to 'lovebird' which in its single form means 'parrot'.
link
OVERBID
change B to P
PROVIDE
PROVIDED
-P
OVERDID
I was going to post "Ahem...", Wofa, but I figured you'd notice, and (eventually) you did... :0)
(Made my post, turned off the machine, never looked at what had been posted seven minutes earlier, never saw it until hours and hours later, as you noticed. Sorry; didn't mean to make you chopped liver
)
OVERDIDchanging R to A would have
AVOIDED the whole thing!
AVOIDED
DEVOID of an A, eh!
DISCOVER
change D to A
VARICOSE
CALORIES
change C to B
It's the aurora BOREALIS !
BALISTER
change E to O
ORBITALS
(I leave it up to you whether that comes under chemistry or astrophysics)
...and
LABORIST, too, but I seem to recall from way back that we were using not just pure anagrams but a change of letter as well (add, or change, or delete). Take another turn!
"You may add or delete only one letter, and you may scramble the letters to form a new word."
Yes, if may means must you must be right.
well, if you take 'may' as optional, you've got two options and you could just parrot back the word, which wouldn't be much of a challenge. (btw, taking a verb such as 'provide' and adding a d without scrambling...)
I've been working on the premise that, as we've been playing, "you may" means "your choices are," not "you have permission to (but you can do something else if you want)."
But the point is moot, really. If anagrams are permitted, then ORBITALS became STROBILA became LABORIST, and it's your turn, though the letters are the same. If anagrams are disallowed, the working letters are still ORBITALS and you get another shot at it, if you want.
PS. Actually I raised this same question last October when the game was first started. Here's what Coffeebean, the originator, posted on the subject way back then:
...not too hung up on ROOLZ. The simpler the better. Ah, what I had in mind was to scramble AND / OR add or delete a letter. That being said, if we want to be a little more laid-back and do anagrams too, it really won't hurt anything.
They're very tempting when you find a good one! (See
TOTALISER <--> ARISTOTLE.)
Oh by all means, I like the srcamble AND /add or delete a letter best. There should be some challenge in it. It's just that I have a lot of work at the moment. I did not think right. So do we go from ARISTOTLE and stick to the scramble + add or delete?
E to L TORTILLAS?
Don't know where Mulligan comes from, but Mulligan's is an Irish pub in Amsterdam, where my son used to play in an Irish band till he left the country. Funny to see it here.
Forgive me, I'm being pedantic.
No need to go back to ARISTOTLE as he was passed over even by his proposer as being not within the Roolz, such as they are (
...who only TOLERATES these effronteries by the expedient of changing I into E").
As things stand, it's add or delete or change, and scramble at will. I notice that LukeJavan has a fondness for changing one letter and letting the rest stay as they were (as with REROASTED --> REROOSTED), and no one has minded.
TORTILLASL --> E
ASTROLITE(BTW, did you see how close Aristotle is to ABILORST?! Maybe we should change I to O and sit down on a BARSTOOL ?)
Ha!
wofahulicodoc, you're running wild! Flinging Aristotles and Tolerateses and Astrolites and barstools at the baffled public.
I guess we quietly bend the roolz until someone brings them on again. Still I like the old coffeebean starting rules best.
ASTROLITES is fine for anyone to take on.
ROOLZ! The bane of any existence. If you endeavor to follow them, you are criticized by those who question the origin/interpretation/creator etc. ARISTOTLE somehow got a pass from the generally accepted rool about disallowing proper nouns. ASTROLITE would be similarly not acceptable. However, in the interest of simply moving forward, with no disallowances, you must accept the only choice:
- L
TOASTIER
Good luck; I've had it with all of you!
Of course, I'm just kidding... ;0)
TOASTIER
O --> E
TREATIES
(Aristotle didn't get a pass, he was rejected and ignored by his creator the instant he was named !)
Anyone smart enough to fill in the gap? Two words should do it...
ORBITALS
?
?
ARISTOTLE
TREATIES
-S
ITERATE
no harm done... :0)
ITERATE
change I to H
THEATER (or THEATRE, as you like it)
T to B >
BREATHEBut
Can you show us Doc?
I didn't have anything in mind when I pointed out the high degree of overlap; I'll have to work on it like everyone else.
In the meantime -
BREATHE
drop the H
REBATE
BANTERED
Change D to E
My chorus is singing a TENEBRAE Service next month
(Actually it's the Rachmaninoff Vespers but "Tenebrae" was as close as I could get, anagramwise)
T to B >
BREATHEBut
Can you show us Doc?
Nope. I'm not smart enough.
If we allow French then
oraliste would be the only step required.
Or
laborites ??
I've noticed that is far more difficult to fill in a gap over more than to the next word than it seems.
BANTERED
My chorus is singing a TENEBRAE Service next month
(Actually it's the Rachmaninoff Vespers but "Tenebrae" was as close as I could get, anagramwise)
B to G out of the darkness
TEENAGER
TEENAGER (which is also GENERATE, or even GREEN TEA, but anagrams are not enough)
change G to V
ENERVATE
ADD D
VENERATED
OR ADD S
VENERATES
VETERANS
drop another E
SERVANT
(Or perhaps TAVERNS, if les Héros would like une bière.)
VERNANT
Change V to Y
A TANNERY, of course.
edit: Nope. Target word has already evolved. Like swine flu.
Try again: VERDANT
Durn. Takes two steps to make ADVENTURE. Oh, well.
Change R to U
VAUNTED
DEVIANT
change A to I
INVITED
INVITER
change I to N
VINTNER
'
Drop the V
INTERN
Drop the N > INTER
I to E: ENTER
change T to D > ENDER
ADD F > FENDER
FENDER
change E to I
FRIEND
FRINGE
add an O
FOREIGN
(afterthought: Who's the guy who played the part of The Hulk? Lou
FERRIGNO ?)
(PS. Work from FOREIGN, not FERRIGNO. I think we decided a while back not to use capitalized words. Unless we had to, of course!)
GROANER
O to A and re-
ARRANGE
ARRANGE is a repeat from 1/30. Have another? Or we could just go on anyway...
two steps..
add R > ARRANGER,
add E >
REARRANGE
ARRANGE is a repeat from 1/30. Have another? Or we could just go on anyway...
'" I'm late,"said the white rabbit. I had E to Y
GRANARY, but now, ah well, I'm late.( or o to y from groaner for that matter)
Or is granary also a repeat from 1/30?
If "a Rogue and Arrant Knave" am I, then do I possess
ARRANCY ?
(epecially if I'm on the Crusnes River in Lorraine, France)
Definitely, when cruising on the Crusnes on a Sunday afternoon.
Drop R
CYNARA
Artichokes? My, my.
CYNARA
change Y to I
CRANIA
(or could have changed A to O to make CRAYON)
Wow, I'm impressed Branshea. For a second language speaker you sure come up with some real Doozies (Cynara, Candroy)
CANDROY Y-->U CANDOUR
Thank you kindly, ( after I looked up Doozies ) but honestly it's no ready knowledge. I put the letters in a add L CAULDRON, stirfry and see if it bakes a word or chicken soup.
CAULDRON
Change U to E, simmer 15 minutes, and drain with a
COLANDER
...and the 900th. post! Coffeebean, you have surely set a record with this thread. And... e-->y =
condylar.
Unfortunately with the bone comes the cartilege -
condylar
change Y to H
CHONDRAL
CHONDRAL
+E
CHLORDANE
And you meant cartilage, right wofa?
CHLORDANE
drop the O
CHANDLER
Oops. You're right. But there's precedent: I misspelled "privilege" on my tenth-grade NY State Regents English exam, too, in 1956.
For this once, just because he's one of my three favorite composers: drop R and in honor of HANDEL I wiil accept the penalty for ignoring the Rlz's.
H > C
CANDLE
Handel: one of my favorites as well.
CANDLE
add another E
CLEANED
...or trapped in time _ add R CALENDER if it's a repeat we are trapped again.
But I can fix it...
CALENDER
E --> A
CALENDAR
Sorry, Luke, but that is in invalid repeat, just ten posts before! (Thanks, wofa...) We are back to
CALENDARNote: You can check your word by clicking on "Search" (look at the top, next to "FAQ", typing your word in the drop down box, and clicking "Go". In the listing you get, check only "Wordplay and fun" topics, and only those from 2008 and 2009. :0)
Calender CALENDAR Add T DECLARANT
Sorry, Luke, but that is in invalid repeat, just ten posts before! (Thanks, wofa...) We are back to
CALENDARNote: You can check your word by clicking on "Search" (look at the top, next to "FAQ", typing your word in the drop down box, and clicking "Go". In the listing you get, check only "Wordplay and fun" topics, and only those from 2008 and 2009. :0) Sorry, guess I don't know all the rules. Are they (probably repetitive question) printed somewhere???
OK I see they grey-colored statement: but rules too??
No rules involved, Luke. It's just that on page 90 Wofa already
had COLANDER and we risk turning round and round. So I move on from DECLARANT (not I) to
DECALVANT to offer a V
For this once, just because he's one of my three favorite composers: drop R and in honor of HANDEL I wiil accept the penalty for ignoring the Rlz's.
Nothing personal intended, but the disclaimer here indicates rules of some sort.
I take it words can never be repeated?
I understand the problem of turning things over and over and over again. I don't want to do that either.
Just trying to figure out the thread.
Thanks.
Sorry, I should have added a crazy smiley. I was being ironic about the rlz's. Handel is a proper name. We agreed ( did we?) on not using proper names. We talked about repetition before. If no one remembers it's never been there.( put it in a colander and let it pass through)
For this once, just because he's one of my three favorite composers: drop R and in honor of HANDEL I wiil accept the penalty for ignoring the Rlz's.
Nothing personal intended, but the disclaimer here indicates rules of some sort.
I take it words can never be repeated?
I understand the problem of turning things over and over and over again. I don't want to do that either.
Just trying to figure out the thread.
Thanks.
You are correct, Luke, there are rules (or roolz...) but they have been the source of some debate, mostly because they were a bit spare, so we have added a few, just for clarification. I'm not even sure if the repetition rule has ever been mentioned, but it only makes sense. The proper name issue has been discussed, mostly as it is a rule for most word games, but it has also been flagrantly ignored, as well. I think ignoring that one is less of a problem for the game than ignoring repetition. Repetition is also boring, anyway. You're doing fine, so don't stress... :0)
Whew!
Thanks a bundle. I felt I was in a holding cell awaiting
arraignment. (Just kidding.) I'll try to avoid the repitition,
and if anyone sees me doing it, please let me know.
DECALVANT V to I CADENTIAL
CADENTIAL
Magic! Even after you change A to I - it's
IDENTICAL !
Both bread and chalice D to X
CALIXTINE
E to L CALL IT NIX ? WOFA? Quo Fadis?
CALIXTINE
Okay, if we change the X to B we get INCITABLE, like a near-riot
or change the X to M and get MILITANCE, which is North Korea's posture at the moment
but those are both on the forced side. I like better changing X to S, which lets us be
INELASTIC
(extra credit: X -> C is for Leibowitz, almost, if you drop the second I)
Is that a word? I don't find it in OneLook.com or even on Google, except in Spanish or Dutch or trademarked.
Enplastic isn't but it only lacks one tiny change; with some elasticity we can change N to M and the word is allright
EMPLASTIC which offers possibilities.
There is a local office site where they
laminate, and they use it saying:
"Enplastic all your important papers here".
So....
I don't know. Just because they use it does not make it a word.
I checked today and the letter is N after the E: enplastic.
E{placeholder}PLASTIC
...whatever letter it is, change it to a Y and Bob's your uncle!
(Solving word problems is our SPECIALTY !)
specialty-spectrally.
Eh.. you have changed I for L and and scrambled, which would be all, but you have added an extra R.
Atonement?(or not)
Second I wouldn't mind discussing the issue of whether a word that is used and even written, is not a word even if the dicts.
don't have it. Is it fair compared to words that are not used and still are words.
There is a local office site where they
laminate, and they use it saying:
"Enplastic all your important papers here".
So....
I don't know. Just because they use it does not make it a word.
I checked today and the letter is N after the E: enplastic.
and if you take the plastic off it's deplastic.
I think we gotta start over from SPECIALTY.
(LukeJ, this one's for you.)
Thanks for getting us out of that mess.
I think we gotta start over from SPECIALTY.
(LukeJ, this one's for you.)
But you can always sell your first word right for a plate of lentils.
Thank you all so much, but I'll leave the task to you all.
You are so much better adept than I. If the word does not
pop out at me, I don't take time to rearrange the letters to
suit,it would take time from other pursuits, like study and
crosswords. But I am appreciative.
OK. Free delivery for your crosswords. Y to K SKEPTICAL
SKEPTICAL
change A to O
STOCKPILE
K to A >>
link>>
SCAPOLITE
Yes it does, but don't blame it on the skunk. You jumped from nine letters down to seven, so somewhere up your sleeve there's an E hiding.
...don't you think?
POLECATS
change T to B
PLACEBOS
(I had wanted to go from STOCKPILE to PLUCKIEST up above, but you can't have everything)
COUPABLE
change B to T
OUTPLACE - sometimes called "cut," or "let go," or "RIF," or "downsize," or "pink-slip," or any of a variety of other sad euphemisms
...and spoil everything!
OUTPLEAD
A --> L
POLLUTED
Of beautiful P to I SOLITUDE
SOLITUDE
-- Change U to D and develop your DELTOIDS ?
-- Drop the I and make it LOUDEST ?
Nah. Let's change U to A and remain
ISOLATED
( and then change O to I if you believe all's for the best in this best of all possible worlds... )
IDEALIST taken I to Y given:
DIASTYLE
if you take away the Y and put the O back in, you get
DIASTOLE
(Not to put any pressure on, or anything)
O --> L
DETAILS follow defeats over defences
SALUTED by the L to D ADUSTED rangers.
SALUTED by the L to D ADUSTED rangers.
You are a-BUSTED! I don't think "adusted" is a word... care to try again?
I do not believe what I come across either but..
adusted The Webster 1913 has adust, adusted, adustable and adustion.
Should it be adjusted?
Sorry, must have been sleeping, missed the call.
Toadies was a fine transformation, but it quickly disappeared into
details. The
adjusted adusted is a too tough cooky.
READJUST
I was going to make TRADEUPS but that's either hyphenated or too cute or just plain forced...
So instead let's just retire it and consider it PASTURED.
PASTURED
- A
SPURTED
...out of the cow! he he
This word is so funny to me! It's almost onomatopoetic, and who knows what crazy etymology it has! :0)
"to gush out, squirt," 1570, variant of spirt, perhaps cognate with M.H.G. spürzen "to spit," and sprützen "to squirt" (see sprout). The noun in this sense is attested from 1775.
Putting aside who M.H.G. (Middle Heights Germanic?) might be: D to O POSTURE ,thanks for onomatopotamos.
POSTURE
I'd love to make that into PROUST.
"Not Allowed! - that's capitalized!" comes the expected attack.
Okay, okay. I'll just have to change U to I for my RIPOSTE.
I can REPOSIT that in my memory bank.
Erm...as Google.com puts it, "Did you mean vestigial?"
link Here vestigal is refered to as vestigal organs, though in the article vestigial is said to be the usual term. On from here:
S to N
VIGILANTE
VIGILANTE
Just adding another I for INVIGILATE seems so...straightforward.
Whereas changing G to E would be ELEVATING the entire conversation, wouldn't it?
I'm a biologist & have used and read '
vestigal' often for 20+ yrs. I didn't realize it's jargon. I guess I'll consider it a vestigal word from now on.
Coming to my own defense is so (v to n)
inelegant.
Now here's a fruitful discussion:
INELEGANTIf we swap left and right (L--> R) we get
TANGERINE
Plus they are real good to eat. Keep it fruitful then G to C NECTARINE
Does NECTARINE to ENTRANCING work? The process would have to be
E --> NG, and that's not a permitted transition.
But..it's entrancing that it does work with I to D ENTRANCED
Cheers olly.
Cheers olly.Happy to help out.
I must admit I was into the
DECANTER last night.
(He says with a mischievous grin)
Better be careful, though. The last one who spent to much time with the
DECANTER
T --> E
CAREENED down the road all the way home.
He even did a complete 180
E ----> T
and the next morning, blearily RECANTED the protestations of sobriety he had made that night.
Let's brighten up the thread a bit:
RECANTED
N --> O
DECORATE
(We might even drop another E and get some ART DECO but I wouldn't recommend it)
Drop E CORDATE decorations or (back to biology) leaves.
...hope yours never encounters the arrhythmia known as
C-->S
TORSADE de Pointes.
Nasty, that one is.
At least one
D --> N
SENATOR is out of rhythm.
OSTREA
O --> I (Is that the "oi" in oyster?) (Nope, sorry, that would have been A-->Y)
SATIRE
STRIAE
add D
ASTRIDE
(and if you add another S you'll have a BIG problem!)
Like when an add
>
ASTEROID hits you over the head?
such (A->S)
DISTRESS!
DESTRESS; the one-thousandth post!!! Amazing!
DE-STRESS
D-->L
The natives are getting RESTLESS
Actually I'm surprised that no one has advocated that we re-start the thread so it won't take as long to load. Does that mean we have all graduated to broadband connections and no one is using a modem any more?
Aunt Gertrud's W to U STREUSEL or drop S SWELTER
SHELTER
H -->I
STERILE
(trying to steer us away from the path we traveled last month)
Add N-- the deepseadized final FRONTIER
That is to say, stand at the
FRONTIER
then change F to E and
RE-ORIENT [hyphen is optional]
Or you could add an E and become an ORIENTEER
ORIENTEER
I'd change an O to an A if I wanted to
INTERFERE
drop one E and shuffle---->
FRENETIR
FRENETIR
I dunno, kinda looks like a French verb to me. Must have really taken some
FERRETING out to find it!
(Even without the G: E-->I -- there's an iron-carrying protein in our blood called FERRITIN)
Ay, I'm no too happy with it too, but the 1 hit(s)does not present it as a verb. Well who ferrets the way out of ferreting?
(I do have one, but it's not my turn.)
Oh well, anything- one that delivers us from double eeee-s and double arrrrrrr-s.
T-->O
Dunno how much relief it offers, as the EEs and the RRs RREEmain.
(The title is a hint, too!)
Gah! I looked up the summary on Wikipedia, and all I could find was Federation and Fosterites.
Well, lets not sit here FESTERING
What was your option Wofa?
Yep, FOREIGNER (I was off track) Good point of departure but olly has made his move so we'll stick to that?
FESTERING >> G to A FRATERNISE
Can't do it that way - the second R is gone !
I see. A smugglers R. Shame on me! I'm sure by now you have the follow up for FESTERING ready.
FESTERING
drop the F
INTEGERS
(This is starting to sound very familiar)
Predictably, you were STEERING us here all along.
...with my banjo on my knee
except it looks as though I'll have to RESTRING it
STRINGER
-----fishing instrument.
STINGER - insect-borne fishing impediment
#181974 - 01/22/09 11:06 PM
Re: Raising the Question [Re: doc_comfort]
BEARINGS
change B to T and get
TANGIERS or ANGRIEST or GANTRIES or GRANITES or INGRATES or GASTRINE or ASTRINGE or... (fades off into the night)
That's the magic set of letters that Martin Gardiner a long time ago alleged in
Scientific American has no fewer than 65 different anagrams. Now we have nine.
edit: Ten:
RANGIEST.
Woooff! Are you after all 65? Are they not just to be found already together? BTW, I still count 9. ('Bearings' does not count) Unless you count East ring in.
You're right, it's nine. EAST RING doesn't count, unless perhaps you're a circus afficionado.
I'd love to see the entire list, though I'm sure I wouldn't recognize the vast majority of the offerings. My recollection is that they were all to be eight-letter words.
The Mathematical Games column that Gardiner wrote that in is from the Sixties, I think, give or take ten years. He gave a reference identifying the individual who made the assertion and I suppose I could look it up but I haven't the initiative.
I've done some looking, there are lists, but after about a number of words they all end up in split words like East ring. I got one more though, swimmers.
NEGRITAS
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
TANGIERS
TEARINGS ?
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
TANGIERS
TEARINGS
RESTINGA Veering off the beaten track but a welcome diversion
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
TANGIERS
TEARINGS
RESTINGA
GRATINES or keep in shape reading recipes that don't appeal.
ANGRIEST
ASTRINGE
GANTRIES
GANISTER
GASTRINE
GRANITES
GRATINES
INGRATES
NEGRITAS
RANGIEST
RESTINGA
TANGIERS
TEARINGS
Google has 71 listings for "erganist" but the English ones look to me mostly like misreadings of "organist."
There are however REGANISTs among the Animal Rights community.
ANGRIEST-ASTRINGE-GANTRIES-GANISTER-GASTRINE-GRANITES-GRATINES-INGRATES-NEGRITAS-RANGIEST-RESTINGA-REGANIST-TANGIERS-TEARINGS-
TASERING B C F H J K L M O P Q U V W Y Z tasered letters of the alphabeth
STARING
G-->O
RATIONS
(I think the list goes up to 66 words now, because the Taser hadn't been invented when the 65 were asserted.
I see the alphabet minus the latters EASTRIN&G, but why do you call it tasered?)
I called them tasered because those 16 letters were temporarely paralyzed in this game and that is what tapering or tapered means. I'm glad to see the spell is broken. OOOOOOOOOOOH! Yep!
Whew! I am glad you figured them all out.
I'd still like to know Wofa, were all those 65 whole words or did they brake'm up?
I came away with the conclusion that they were all one-word anagrams. I don't think I jumped, but it's a possibility.
The train is leaving the STATION again.
Are you sure you didn't want to do something else INSTEAD?
Such as wash my DAINTIES?
Just as long as they aren't STAINED
SEDATION
but even if you do it's OK, because with S --> T I have the
ANTIDOTE
PADRONE He's a hoodlum anyway.
PRONATED
Don't take out the T, put in an N, and fly with your
PTERANDON .
Oh. Too late; you already did. OK, then.
PADRONEI'll change the A-->S and
RESPOND.
PRONATED
Don't take out the T, put in an N, and fly with your
PTERANDON .
Oh. Too late; you already did. OK, then.
But
PTERANDON is much nicer to continue from. So.
I thought it was nice too, but for the moment we're on RESPOND. I know rules were meant to be broken, but let's not do so on purely esthetic grounds. Maybe we can work our way back to our flying reptile later.
Okay, is fun. Reculer:
RESPOND----E to A
PARDONS----S to E
PADRONE----add T
PRONATED----add N
PTERANDON
thanks, I did not know you could make so many changes in one
posting.
(You're not really supposed to, but this was for a special event.)
PTERANDON
How about N-->I = PREDATION ? (That could have come directly from PRONATED, come to think of it.) I don't capitalize it because it's so mundane and we ought to be able to come up with something more elegant.
I've been looking for the flying fossil but then I found three words for it,Pterandon, Pteradon and
Pteranodon Where do we go from here?
Another language matter I might as well ask here is:
Is mundane opposite to elegant? I always thought it meant the same as 'mondaine', which means elegantly wordly.
I've always used "mundane" to mean not only worldly but with the suggestion of being ordinary, uninspired, common, simple, obvious. "Elegant" carries connotations of being special, high-class, somewhat out-of-the-way yet still appropriate, perceptive. Elegant can be simple too.
Select all that apply.
"Mondaine" as "elegantly world-wise" may place it among the faux-amis; in English "mundane" emphasizes the commonplace, rather than the loftiness of elegance. At least as I've used it. (Whom are you going to believe, me or some strange dictionary?)
Just was surprised I must have misunderstood that word a good number of decades as I never looked it up. I did now. Thanks for the explanation. Let's grabs that PTERANDON elegantly by the wings.
N to V >>
DAVENPORT _ elegant enough?
DAVENPORT
A --> I
PROVIDENT
I think it is funny. You have "Roolz", but you change them
as you go. Sounds like a kids' game, no offense intended: just
interesting.
My bad Luke, I liked that pterandon better than my word. I know it's childish, but tja...games....hmm..tsss, sorry.
It will not happen again. (can't vouch for others)Duizend maal pardon.
I think it is funny. You have "Roolz", but you change them
as you go. Sounds like a kids' game, no offense intended: just
interesting.
Perhaps, but in general the changes are all within a fairly narrow range, and usually the same transgressions repeatedly. So far we're occasionally ignored the No-Capitalized-Words rule and the only-one-change-per-entry rule. I offer that it's a matter of esthetics, and we break the Roolz to post an entry that feels particularly elegant or clever.
I'll say this: I've lost interest due to the lost roolz* -- does that sound disingenuous coming from a hogmaster®?
*or maybe it's due to the
endlessness of it all!
link. I'd rather use the word countlessness as I do not count posts and pages.
But a hogwash might distract the attention.
or from rags to ruin; V to I
PERDITION
PERDITION
drop the O and do heroic things
INTREPID
Where do you find these words? Wow!
(It's been a busy week, and not over yet - I'm still working on it)
PYRIDINE
Y -> S
INSPIRED
(and so I was... ;0)
INSPIRED
D --> T
PRISTINE
(but I have a distinct feeling of déjà vu...)
Am I iolating-vay oo-tay any-many if I
change R --> A and ake-may
PIG-LATIN ?
Am I iolating-vay oo-tay any-many if I
change R --> A and ake-may
PIG-LATIN ?
I don't know about that, but ou-yay iolated-vay uh-thay ules-ray of-ay ig-pay atin-lay! It-ay ould-shay ead-ray: "Am-ay I-ay iolating-vay oo-tay any-may if-ay I-ay ange-chay R-ay --> A-ay and-ay ake-may..."
At-ay east-lay at's-thay uh-thay ay-way ee-way oke-spay it-ay ere-whay I-ay ived-lay. eesh-shay! at's-thay ough-tay! ol-lay ;0)
I know that, but I also know we're part of an international community here and some might find it difficult to decipher without a few extra clues.
I leave it to the assembled multitudes - if too much whimsy is disqualifying we should go back to TRIPLING, and if we can allow a smile here and there (in particular, here) then I offer PIG-LATIN, as above.
(...And if everyone is going to tear their hair out over it, or at least twist it into braids, we can use PLAITING instead. But I'd rather take the opportunity to ile-smay.)
PIGTAILS
A-->U
PUGILIST
(same root as "pugnacious" and "impugn")
Speaking of pugnacious -
PUGILIST
P-->O
48 hours, and I give up.
My word was LITIGOUS
48 hours, and I give up.
My word was LITIGOUS
I hate to interrupt your conversation with yourself, but I don't believe that's actually a word. I always thought it was
LITIGIOUS. If you can tear yourself away from yourself, please let me know what you think! ;0)
Yes, I thought it looked funny too, so I checked around and found that that's also what Onelook.com says.
Then I looked for excuses and rationalizations and found that Google has 92,000 ghits for "litigous" (carefully overlooking the fact that it also has 687,000 ghits for -ious) which gives it some dubious validity.
But really I have to admit that I posted it anyway so as to have the opportunity to use the comeback to your question:
"You're right. I'm wrong. So sue me!"
[/trying-to-sneak-unnoticed-out-the-door emoticon]
Since you have admitted your Guilt I Solemnly sentence you to find a different word.
Taken from PUGILIST P to N LINGUIST
(...could have come from LITIGOUS, too, if there was such a word...) ;-)
LINGUIST
I --> H
HUSTLING
Then I looked for excuses and rationalizations and found that Google has 92,000 ghits for "litigous" (carefully overlooking the fact that it also has 687,000 ghits for -ious) which gives it some dubious validity.
But really I have to admit that I posted it anyway so as to have the opportunity to use the comeback to your question:
"You're right. I'm wrong. So sue me!"
[/trying-to-sneak-unnoticed-out-the-door emoticon]
Well, first off, the reason it has hits is because people can't spell! I got 1,610,000 for "commitee", and it has no dubious validity; it's just a misspelling!
As to your "comeback": ha ha ha At least you're better at being clever than you are at spelling! ;0)
HUSTLING
(presto, chango...)
SUNLIGHT
Sometimes there's a place for
L --> O
SHOUTING
but it's been three days, and if I don't do it, it looks like
T --> A
CURTAINS for this thread
Well, we certainly don't want to CONSTRAIN you.
I think there's room to throw in another E
CONTAINERS
(Do we allow French? CONNAÎTRE ?
No, I didn't think so.)
containers
add R
CONSTRAINER
No way out of contrariness as far as I can see. A doomed word.
With help from I, Rearrangement Servant:
RECONSTRAINS
Let's not give up before wofa gets back from vacation, next week.
Wish I'd'a seen that. Quite a word.
Rearrangement Servant? Is that you?
Lord have mercy, no. Go
here and watch the moving letters.
I have that site bookmarked, but thought it might be
'cheating', roolz, you know?
Lord have mercy! I don't believe it. It's done by a machine! All that tossing and toiling... what a bummer. Jackie! Think of all the prime time intelligence I've put into this!
ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
-ron o.
ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
-ron o.
This was a secret? How could it be? It's part of this server, for heaven's sake! Notice the URL:
www.WORDSMITH.ORG/anagram. When I first saw this game, I thought it was a tie-in to the anagram page. This has been a nice chuckle for me....
drat, I should have used the irony icon..
/irony
RECONSTRAINS
S --> T
RECONSTRAINT
working towards reduction..
CONSTRAINER
working towards reduction..
CONSTRAINER
Sorry, tsuwm, but this is particularly egregious, as this was used just a few posts ago! No free pass on this one, we're back to my (didn't I just use a bunch of...)
CONSTRAINT
I looked back and saw 'constrain' - is that considered the same word, or didn't I look far enough?
containers
add R
CONSTRAINER
If I'm not sure, I use the search function, which orders the results from latest to earliest...
well, I think that this:
Sorry, tsuwm, but this is particularly egregious, as this was used just a few posts ago!
was a bit precipitous if I need to use the search function to find it!
It is only 13 posts back from yours (and only 2 word changes), and I only mentioned what I do to avoid repeats in case someone might find it useful.
thought it might be 'cheating' Me too--that's why I noted that I used it. Above about seven letters I'm really no good at anagrams.
all the prime time intelligence Ha! I love it!
ha! finally, everyone's secret is exposed!!
-ron o.
Don't not generalize Ironic One, just a few ain't Everyone.
"Let us not bow our heads, and it's no use constraining,
Life has been good to us all, even if that sky is raining,
To take it with a grain of salt,
is all I can do it's no one's fault,
makes no diff'rence if we fade away.
It's just as it was, it's much too cold for me to stay.."
(paraphrasing The Band)
>It is only 13 posts back from yours
oops.. another secret exposed: I have Luke on ignore; I read his entries here as I go along, but they don't show up on a page scroll.
Well, aren't you just full of oop these days... he he
Love your new pic, Bran! Is it a swallow? It looks big, but you can't tell from an isolated sky shot, so I'm thinking it might not be so big. :0)
I have found it useful, since I was first told about it months
ago. Appreciate it.
Here it would appear to be of the swallow family. Very nice.
>It is only 13 posts back from yours
oops.. another secret exposed: I have Luke on ignore; I read his entries here as I go along, but they don't show up on a page scroll.
Thank you so much. That makes my day. Would that more would
ignore me. By the way, sentences still begin by capitalizing
the first letter of the first word.
...ignoring anyone! I say: Bring on the posts! I will read them ALL!!! mua ha ha ha ha ha...
gosh, I wonder what Luke and twos are posting about‽
-
joe (ing in the dark) friday
gosh, I wonder what Luke and twos are posting about‽
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joe (ing in the dark) friday For someone who is ignoring me, I sure have your attention.
...my last post about the word we are moving from was wrong. It's not CONSTRAINT, but RECONSTRAINT. Rather than simply add an S, I have chosen to remove an N, which scrambles up to what I've done in the plural form:
RETRACTIONS
Now, let's take it from there! :0)
RETRACTIONS
I hesitate to change A to I, perhaps removing another
RESTRICTION, because I'm really not sure it gets us anywhere...
You're back! Didja have a good time?
Unfortunately, our other main keeper-upper of this thread, Branshea, is now on vacation...over here! So the rest of you-all who can, please keep it goin'...
Bran listed a new state to the ones she has visited.
Says it reminds her of the Netherlands.
But never left a footprint there. Grounded for three hours at Grand Rapids Airport, due to a thunderstorm over O'Hare. Two scary interrupted approaches makes me fear thunderstorms more now than N to R TERRORISTIC threats.
Still I add Michigan to my list.
Safely back on home ground I make the little change from C to E to TERRITORIES
To get out of the 3 R's (hopeless) in order to get rid of one , it needs a stepping stone. Via (legal) (S to D) TERRITORIED to (R to Y) DETERIORITY ( which it may possibly be, dunno). It needs cutting down the number of letters. (?)who.
Nice to see you are trying. I've got nothing.
If only this organism would devour one of these organic letters.
Y to V > >
DETRITIVORE wasn't there once someone called wofaholicodoc?This was started on 10/23/08 by coffeebean with the word 'brain'.
Could we in a last combined effort bring it back to a five letter word before or on the 23 and blow it to kingdom come?
Ooh, that would be...fitting. A thread that lasted exactly a year! Amazing.
Ok--I won't even try to put which, or how many, letters were saved/lost/changed, but I'll go with
RETRIEVED.
It's gotta be shorter!
We call it wielding a blunt ax, but your action seems to be....fitting.
I shall hasten the cause. If we all swim down we can escape this net.
Drop an E--> DIVERTER
It's been a while since I contributed but now that we've come so far my attention is
RIVETED
...and perhaps we might DIVERT it?
At least I TRIED.
It's getting ahead of ourselves, since the 23rd isn't until eleven days from now, but it would be fitting to come back to BRAIN at one year, with Coffeebean doing the honors. (Can we refrain from doing it immediately?!)
And unless people are truly getting tired of this, there's no reason to end it at one year. We might however learn a lesson: too many letters gives too few choices, and too little room to maneuver, and can spoil the game.
We could keep it in the fridge on five for a while: F to A AIRED
To stick to five? Drop T HEARD
...to meet the word brain or bean on the 23thrd of october?
E to A BROAD....( brain or bean? )
All I can say is that it would have taken 3 steps to go from BROAD to BRAIN. Now it takes 4, but it's too early anyway. It will take 2 steps to go from BRAIN to BEAN. I takes many more to go from RAGS to RICHES.
I won't post any more until you achieve your goal.
EDIT: other proposition. What about whoever wants to participate gets back to brain on October 23 (Friday). Departing from READY, using the days needed to end up Friday. Coffeebean, if ever you pass by....?
Oh, I didn't realize you wanted to get back to brain; just thought it was ending on the 23rd.--sorry. Hmm--well, we've got the R and the A...aha:
YEARN
OK. Departing from READY I come alongside with BREAD. I have the B the R and the A . It's an individual track now if that's alright with you (the formal or plural you). So Jackie,
in two words/two days you'd get from YEARN to BRAIN?
Anyone else going from READY to BRAIN these days?
But, but--Luke already posted BREAD, on the 13th. But we can go on from there as far as I'm concerned.
Oh- oho! Yes. I see. True, very true. Sorry Luke.
I thought that at the point where Wofu said READY it could be taken down the easiest way not regarding what had been before.
There is no specific system in the madness.
Then I take it from YEARN to BEARN today. Drop in what else could be the pre-last word, if you have it.
Oh my goodness, dear! YOU were meant to take this penultimate step! But since you didn't, please forgive that I am:
BEARN
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BRAN
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I would have waited till two-to-twelve to see if someone would turn up.
THANKS ! you remembered and gave the bran or barn needed to come round to brain. I still leave it up to :
(Jee, I've been embroidering this badge all day)
10/23/08-10/23/09 BRAIN. If it hereby really ends depends. (?)
I do believe this is a first; for one thread to last this long, that is. I'll PM Ms. CB.
It might be on Wordsmith Talk, in general I guess not. But we got it (
with a little smuggling act; administrator ) down from that 11-letter word back to the starting point.
Evaluating: I found 5-to-8-letter words the most interesting to play with. Like Wofahu said: too many letters freeze the game. I like the sort of parallel 'communication' that went on through the game. It was fun. I'm not to decide; maybe some people want to start another thread or continue on this one. It's been fun to me.
Let's think for a moment before we decide whether to start a BRAND-new thread or to continue this one.
In the past some have noted that with a dial-up connection it takes a very long time to load a long thread...perhaps too long.
Others have pre-emptively started a new thread whenever the instant one reached 500 posts.
Before we proceed, is there consensus? Should we take a poll?
A poll could show if 'regulars' are still interested. A technical motive for keeping the thread-length shorter counts. So a poll I guess....?? BRAND still the valid word?
In the past some have noted that with a dial-up connection it takes a very long time to load a long thread...perhaps too long.
You'll probably find that only applies in threaded mode.
In the past some have noted that with a dial-up connection it takes a very long time to load a long thread...perhaps too long.
You'll probably find that only applies in threaded mode.
well, in the past some have voiced a strong preference for threaded mode -- but they're probably long gone from this thread!
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I don't play much, but I'd vote for starting a (brand) new thread. (Nice one, wofa!)
I don't play much either, but a new game would interest me more.
I've played a very small bit, but I would vote for a new thread.
I've played many too many but would vote for a new thread and a restriction on the maximum number of letters and posts. 200? I should play less (but wordgames are very tempting ..)I did like the circle, getting back to the starting word.