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Drop an E and you get TRAILERS

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Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let Fifty cents laugh

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TRAILERS

change the L to another I and get

RARITIES

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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....

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Git yer mind outta the cellar!

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drop the I and become ARTSIER

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Originally Posted By: Coffeebean
drop the I and become ARTSIER

In changing R to N I'm becoming ANTSIER at all these dubious words...

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ANTSIER

You'll just have to RESTRAIN yourself

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RESTRAIN

Change I to G. DId you ever see anything

STRANGER ?

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Careful someone doesn't turn into a

STRANGLER

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T to W and move the S

WRANGLER


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Originally Posted By: etaoin
T to W and move the S

WRANGLER

Where to? Siberia?

Now it's really getting GNARLIER

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy
GNARLIER


Drop L and shuffle

REARING

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REARING

change the I to another A and re-ARRANGE

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Nice to see some order in the game again, sorry to disturb,
B for N >> BARRAGE

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...after all my [R-->G] GARBAGE above, you mean? wink

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drop an A and get BEGGAR

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BEGGAR

change B to D and presto!

" 'Round the rugged rock the RAGGED rascal ran!"

(BADGER is still there if you want it)


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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.


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Drop the "D"


GAUGE


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Ohw!. Barrage led to baggers , rags and no riches. Let 's ARGUE (R for G) for the way up.

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EAGER to agree. ( U --> E ) Seven to nine letters seems to give the most flexibility.

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five letters to four?

GEAR
or perhaps
RAGE

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...and I was so hoping someone would follow with REGGAE. No such luck.

Oh well. Onward!

add an L to AEGR and get

LAGER

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Crown LAGER is a REGAL beer, but we need more letters so allow me to REGALE you with this one by adding an E

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You can have your beer and REGGAE too. ( G for L )
(have your cake and eat it too)

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
REGGAE


E --> A

GARAGE

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a > D


RAGGED


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(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

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Starting to DEGRADE

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DEGRADE

change D to N and we'll meet a

GRANDEE

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Add E the outlaw grandee RENEGADE

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A RENEGADE might possibly use GRENADES after stealing an E and substituting a dangerous S in its place...

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Out of the war-zone , A becomes I, DESIGNER

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resigned


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RESIGNED

...after taking out the S, the Grandee

REIGNED again!

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But then,

RENEGED!

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy


RENEGED!


E --> A

ENRAGED

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pfff.... " three pages of trying to get away from the A " , she
GROANED. - E turned to O

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DERANGED


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