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I did not know you could do two changes in one post.
Great, that helps.

F to G

GLOWERS

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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 crazy

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HU? What are you two talking about? It developed neatly on from ungroups
You can change a letter and scramble or add/-/delete one and scramble. So yes two changes JavL.
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Mind you, it wouldn't be the first wrong turn
Mind made wrong turn , maybe?
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I think Olly was put off by wofa's reversal, "Wait a minute. Let's go back to GROWNUP."

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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)

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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. smile

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GLOWERS


I'll drop a G and go a bit SLOWER smile

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I'm all ELBOWS at this

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(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

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A NOVEL addition

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NOVEL

N ---> R

LOVER

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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")

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that's the pits, wofa.

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OLIVER swaps T for R to become

VIOLET

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I to U VOLUTE

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V --> S SOLUTE

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SOLUTE

add a T

OUTLETS

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U to E > TELEOST

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(If we allowed capitals we could make SEATTLE)

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drop the "L"

TEASET


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I won't go for the obvious teases, but instead swap an s for an a.

teaset > TESTES

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm


TESTES


add R

SETTERS

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S > F

FETTERS
or

S > L

LETTERS
or

S > G
GETTERS

As in 'go-getters'

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Drop the G

STREET

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Add L again TRESTLE (Seattle revisited if you change R for A )

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How 'bout we turn an E into a U; then we can have

TURTLES

(You bet your sweet Thailand !)

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Oh no , not on my menu. Turtle means long life and good health. No throw into the pot.

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TURTLES

L

TRUEST

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Originally Posted By: BranShea
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:
POURING
change U to E
PERIGON
add another I
PEIGNOIR

...and now, we return to our regularly scheduled programming.
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TRUEST
T--> Y SURETY

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Y to S

RUSSET


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RUSSET

change U to S

STRESS

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Add A > ASSERTS

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ASSERTS

S-->E

TEASERS

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change S to A

AERATES

(can't make just drop an E for EASTER, no matter how appealing; that would be capitalized)

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A to B BERATES

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B to O

ROSEATE

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Nah, you can put mine in the E to T TOASTER

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T to C

COASTER

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