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Originally Posted By: etaoin
DERANGED
grin each in his own way, you get a big A for this one.

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Originally Posted By: etaoin
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grin each in his own way, you get a big A for this one.


looks like we need seconds in the time markers!
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Originally Posted By: etaoin
DERANGED

That doesn't fly! Too many changes from (where we will go back):
GROANED
to
BADGER

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Originally Posted By: twosleepy
Originally Posted By: etaoin
DERANGED

That doesn't fly! Too many changes from (where we will go back):
GROANED
to
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")


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Okay, then, let's not get
ANGERED... :0)

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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. laugh

from GROANED to BADGER Hu ? How? COFFEEBEAN!)

Somebody stole my vowel.

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
from GROANED to BADGER Hu ? How?


GROA(N -->)B ED

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Getting a bit GARBLED

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Originally Posted By: olly
GARBLED


drop the L

BARGED

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B --> G

DANGER

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G > D


DANDER


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add an I

DRAINED

afterthought: Do you think among us we can turn this into DANDELION in another three steps?

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d > t

TRAINED


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TRAINED

add a U

URINATED

then change R to N and get

INUNDATE


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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? !!! wink

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TAURINE

change A to E

REUNITE

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Add "S"

REUNITES


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Originally Posted By: BranShea
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? !!! wink

You must have missed that I dropped the O... go back a page and check! :0)

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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8


Add "S"

REUNITES

And I choose

SERENITY

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SERENITY swaps Y for D to become

RESIDENT

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RESIDENT

Should I? Huh? Should I?

No, it would be too easy eh!

TENDERISE

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hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!


That Zee is still a bit harsh for my Tendereyes

Maybe I should've gone with President?

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This Tenderfoot eliminates S and Z to DETERMINE ( SZ becomes mmm M )

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
eliminates S and Z


ain't that two changes?


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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
hey! even the OED spells that TENDERIZE!!

yeah but he's a New Sealander!

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TENDERIßE to DETERMINE

Iß the perfecteßt legalleßt exßchange.

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Originally Posted By: etaoin
Originally Posted By: BranShea
eliminates S and Z


ain't that two changes?

Et, you're off your game! She meant it eliminated the possibility of either one, but both were never together in one word, silly!

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DETERMINE

change M --> C

INTERCEDE

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Do we need to have this

REENACTED?

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Drop an E

DECANTER

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Originally Posted By: olly


DECANTER


drop the N

CREATED

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...change N to O and

DECORATE

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DECORATE
A ROCKETED away in favor of K

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I pocket this one for a P POCKETED

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Bad word.Useless.

Click to reveal..
smile DEBTCODE coming up soon to go with our social security number
PICKETED

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
PICKETED


K --> D

DEPICTED

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DEPICTED

Rats. It would take two turns , so we can't get to CENTIPEDE cleanly...

Ah well.

Add an R

PREDICTED

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PREDICTED >> D to N PRENTICED >> R to E CENTIPEDE
How many miles to millipede, to go or not to go?

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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

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