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Hmmm.....to.. reyndeer?

Just head on to rags or ruin, ;~)

REEDY Y to N ENDER

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DIENER

(That'll teach you!)

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I can take us from here to Rudolf in five steps (stopping off at Facebook along the way for a neologism) but there ought to be a more efficient route. Anyone?

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Nope, not I
But I can rearrange while you wait::


DEINER > REINED

as in guiding Rudolph


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facebook? did someone say facebook??

refined > friended [Webster's 1828]

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FRIENDED

D --> R

FRIENDER

Almost there! Go team! :0)

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FRIENDED D to E
REDEFINE Oleh! twosleepy!

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Jee. I left it to you.... Crossing posts but it's there.
Both ways. Perfect co-op. It's YOURS! (BTW, what's a friender?)
Is it edible? smile

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>what's a friender?

one who friends.. d'oh!
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REFERENDI blush


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now see, if'n you don't do your job when you've got the chance.. any old riff and raff might stroll in and despoil a perfectly good reindeer.

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I would hate to despoil one this way...
reindeer---- e to g + r = derringer

I hope I did this right, if not feel free to ignore.

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Aramis, good to see you pass by in capitals. Referendi is a perfect word, though one letter past the word reindeer, which was twosleepy's quest. Well, reindeer is marked and referendi prefollows the word. smile

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Can we go from REINDEER to DASHER to DANCER to ... and DONDER and BLITZEN and maybe even to RUDOLF?

And can we do it all before ten more days has elapsed?

I'll give a head start:

REINDEER
drop R to make NEEDIER
drop E DENIER
E --> A RAINED
N --> S RAISED
I --> H DASHER

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Originally Posted By: tsuwm
facebook? did someone say facebook??

refined > friended [Webster's 1828]


"Neologism," said I. Right. Looks more like I shoulda said "paleologism."

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Ah, but was it a verb then?

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?Ah, but was it a verb then?

a past participle is a verb form.
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Ah, but was it a verb then?


Well, the Gods are aboue, time must friend or end. - Troilus & Cressida

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Dasher

A > S


SHREDS


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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Jee. I left it to you.... Crossing posts but it's there.
Both ways. Perfect co-op. It's YOURS! (BTW, what's a friender?)
Is it edible? smile


As stated, it's taking up the way friend is used on FaceBook (anyone who wants to friend me, or be friended, just PM me and we can go from there. I already have 2 WS friends on FB...) as a verb. If there is objection to that, you can use INFERRED instead, which has the same letters. Anyhoo, Aramis is fine to jump in. All I have to do is:

REFERENDI

-F

REINDEER

Voila! :0)

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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8

Dasher

A > S


SHREDS


Oh deer!

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SHREDS - S HERDS and herds of reindeer.

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a past participle is a verb form. Ok--but how was I to know friended [Webster's 1828] was a past participle? Couldn't it be an adjective?

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'cuz Webster's 1828 is online? link

(but even the quick def'n at OneLook tells you that.)

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Lost in the page turn, perhaps:

Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
Can we go from REINDEER to DASHER to DANCER to ... and DONDER and BLITZEN and maybe even to RUDOLF?

And can we do it all before ten more days has elapsed?

I'll give a head start:

REINDEER
drop R to make NEEDIER
drop E DENIER
E --> A RAINED
N --> S RAISED
I --> H DASHER



HERDS

H --> N

RENDS


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To Rudolfo you mean?

RENDS S> O DRONE that direction?

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Well, I was hoping to stop off and see Dancer and Prancer and the rest of them along the way.

DRONE
CRONE
CRANE
DANCER


(though we could have done it more directly with DASHER --> HARDEN --> DANCER)

Prancer, you're next!

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DANCER
R to T = CANTED

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C > R

RANTED

R > P


PANTED

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SHREDS

R>A

SHADES

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Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
Lost in the page turn, perhaps:
Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc
Can we go from REINDEER to DASHER to DANCER to ... and DONDER and BLITZEN and maybe even to RUDOLF?
And can we do it all before ten more days has elapsed?
I'll give a head start:

REINDEER
drop R to make NEEDIER
drop E DENIER
E --> A RAINED
N --> S RAISED
I --> H DASHER

HERDS H --> N > > RENDS
I don't know what caused the Babylonian Confusion , but there must have been an anagrammer present at the time. crazy

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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8

C > R
RANTED
R > P
PANTED

Originally Posted By: kah454
SHREDS

R>A

SHADES


kah - I think you hadn't seen the then-most-recent post when you submitted your shreds-->shades change ! We're now at PANTED, on our way to PRANCER if achievable.

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panted
add an l
Planted
d>r
planter
t>c
plancer (a soffit)
l>r
Prancer

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Okay, I see what we're doing.

So now are we going from PRANCER to VIXEN?

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PRANCER

drop the final R

PRANCE

Notice -- goes from here right to Dancer - but we visited him already.
Vixen, we're on our way!

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R>I

PRINCE

P>G
CRINGE

drop C

REIGN

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REIGN

R --> V

GIVEN

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GIVEN

G > X

VIXEN


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The next is Comet
Vixen to Comet

X>S

VINES

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