An Arbitrary Decision: here's the Brand New Thread, Anagrams II.
BRAND
B --> I
DINAR
If interest in this activity has fatigued, let it show here.
Shouldn't it be "Anagram Coffee Break", or some other paean to Coffeebean?
+ R
RANDIER
THRONE
add S
SHORTEN
(Shouldn't that have been "lengthen"?)
t > C
CHOSE
unless I cannot make two jumps, if so
please restore to whatever.
IONATE
the L, you say?
ELATION
SECTORS
C ---> S
STROKES
(Well, it's different, anyway.)
No change, just rearrange.
STOKERS
STONERS
S --> G
...you'll have to make a STRONGER case than that !
STURGEON
...but that was very
T --> E
GENEROUS of you
SCROUNGES
C --> H
ROUGHNESS
ROUGHNESS
GINHOUSES R to > I
...because in GINHOUSES the bread suffers from excessive
(add a D)
DOUGHINESS
Stumped! I can only make a new word by making two changes - not the allowable one.
What now?
Eleven letters is the danger zone. Tough word too. You missed your one year lasting Scrabble thread surprise party.
(alternative title : "O, no!")
Sometimes a noun can be contrived made from an adjective.
Guns can be aimed through a gunsight, but not all guns have them. I have some of each kind. The ones without are not very useful. Please throw out all the UNSIGHTEDS.
even though it's obvious - drop the S
UNSIGHTED
and let's proceed from here.
Challenge: find a next word that starts with an A. Nine letters, two syllables.
UNSIGHTED
T to A ANGUISHED
( You got it
)
so let's find some new
HEADINGS and go off in a
different direction
If I didn't know better I'd speculate this chain was
DESIGNED to be shedding letters back down to a
more manageable level.
Eh? There's a deep meaning HIDDEN here?
I'm heading for seasonal word, 8 letters. Can you help?
DERIDE
-D
EIDER
Oh no! I'm ruined! I need MORE letters, not fewer, and I needed all those I already had (and not a Y...). Can anyone help fix it?
Hmmm.....to.. reyndeer?
Just head on to rags or ruin, ;~)
REEDY Y to N
ENDER
DIENER
(That'll teach you!)
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?
Nope, not I
But I can rearrange while you wait::
DEINER > REINED
as in guiding Rudolph
facebook? did someone say facebook??
refined > friended [Webster's 1828]
FRIENDED
D --> R
FRIENDER
Almost there! Go team! :0)
FRIENDED D to E
REDEFINE Oleh! twosleepy!
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?
>what's a friender?
one who friends.. d'oh!
-ron o.
REFERENDI
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.
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.
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.
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
facebook? did someone say facebook??
refined > friended [Webster's 1828]
"Neologism," said I. Right. Looks more like I shoulda said "paleologism."
Ah, but was it a verb then?
?Ah, but was it a verb then?
a past participle is a verb form.
-ron o.
Ah, but was it a verb then?
Well, the Gods are aboue, time must friend or end. - Troilus & Cressida
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?
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
REINDEERVoila! :0)
I've never eaten one, but I would!
SHREDS - S HERDS and herds of reindeer.
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?
'cuz Webster's 1828 is online?
link (but even the quick def'n at OneLook tells you that.)
Lost in the page turn, perhaps:
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
HERDSH --> N
RENDS
To Rudolfo you mean?
RENDS S> O DRONE that direction?
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!
C > R
RANTED
R > P
PANTED
Lost in the page turn, perhaps:
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 > >
RENDSI don't know what caused the Babylonian Confusion , but there must have been an anagrammer present at the time.
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.
panted
add an l
Planted
d>r
planter
t>c
plancer (a soffit)
l>r
Prancer
Okay, I see what we're doing.
So now are we going from PRANCER to VIXEN?
PRANCER
drop the final R
PRANCE
Notice -- goes from here right to Dancer - but we visited him already.
Vixen, we're on our way!
R>I
PRINCE
P>G
CRINGE
drop C
REIGN
The next is Comet
Vixen to Comet
X>S
VINES
T --> C
COMET
...and on to CUPID !
COMES
Golly gee! You guys are even doing it in order!
V_V-\ / -.*COPES
S --> D
COPED
getting close...
O --> U
CUPPED
CUSPED, like the curve y = x^2
(Wouldn't you give your eyeteeth to predict the next word in the sequence?!)
HINT: it's "CUSPID"
[hand smacking forehead when the penny dropped e]
CUSPID
CUSPID
drop the S
CUPID
and back on the road to the Thunderer
CUSPID
CUSPED
D --> R
SPRUCE
DROPOUT (I TAKE IT WE ARE ON THE WAY TO "DONNER")
U > E
TROOPED
DROP P
ROOTED
O > N
DRONTE
T> N
DONNER
ON TO BLITZEN
Actually I think we were going to DONDER, from what I read
in the titles to each post, e.g. looking three posts up, post
188412.
Sorry for my error I missed the post. Donner is the german for thunder. I guess the donder is from the dutch roots of upstate New York from where the author is from. Since this is in the public domain there are slight variations among printings.
Donder
D > B
Bonder
I was going to take a pass on Donner....
I eat alone so much, you could call me for Donner sometime.
I'd appreciate it.
So where are we?????
Donder?
Rooted?
Trooped?
Dropout?
Where are the people who make the ROOLZ to help us as to
where to go, now???
Luke and eta--ha! I think we are at BONDER, heading for BLITZEN. Okay:
BLONDER
BLUNDER...
BLUNTER...
BLUSTER...
BLISTER...
C'mon, guys, we can do it!
No big deal, but did we skip Donder, or consider him covered
in the mixup??
I think he was covered in my mix up.
Blister
If we can use a proper noun...
s > z
Berlitz
Happy Christmas to and to all a good night.
r > n
Blitzen
And now the ultmate challenge:
Can we get to Rudolph before tomorrow night?
BLITZEN
add S to fortify ourselves before we start
BLINTZES
(should give more opportunities than drop-E-for-BLINTZ)
Merry Christmas to you all from
me and Donder. Rudolf has a light, he'll find the way.
Merry Christmas to you all from
me and Donder. Rudolf has a light, he'll find the way.
Merry Christmas to you too and to all of you.
And here comes Rudolph, if the long way 'round:
BLITZEN (didn't get anywhere with the blintzes except a full stomach)
BLITZER
BLITHER (what a blithering idiot does)
BLATHER
BATHER
EARTH
RATE
EAT
AT
A
AN
AND
END
PEND
DUPE
PULED
PULLED
UPHELD
UPHOLD
RUDOLPH
Not terribly efficient, and a sort of reductio-ad-absurdum technique. Within broad limitations, it could be used to make just about anything out of anything else.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good day!
Now that Rudolph found his way
and now that this is the first day of Christmas,
we could take Rudolph and make a Partridge in a Pear Tree
out of his name
(probably according to your way wofa..)
and proceed thru the Twelve Days of Christmas.
WHATEVER; MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.
Good job, one and all. Hope you had fun with it, and hope you had a lovely, peaceful Christmas. :0)
RUDOLPH
UPHOLD
UPHELD
HELPED
LEAPED
PLEAD
LEAD
AULD...
LATE
(We just might be able to get "Auld...Lang...Syne" without ever leaving four-letter words. Ya think?)
well yes, you could have
[LATE > LANE > LANG]
but to avoid more digressions..
LANES > LANE > LANG
We return you now to your regularly scheduled programming.
YES
add A
EASY
(Unless you want to look way ahead to MARTIN-->LUTHER-->KING ? )
... out of here
PHTHISIO .. said the joker to the thief
Whew, Branny, I was wondering there for a while if anybody'd be able to come up with something! Yay!
BISHOPS
Thanks Coffeebean. I couldn't get out of it but neither did I get us into that mess. ;-)
HIPHOPS to BISHOPS is a forbidden transition - two changes at once.
Let's try the simpler (if heavier)
HIPPOS
Hey, I got it continued, dint I?!
FOPPISH
Why?
POPISH (AKA the anagram schisma)
I'd finally worked it out. Geeee
eeee
Mirth:
"And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew!"
(John Milton)- but the H got to go now
MERIT
No, my image tells I'm a SCOMBER
I'm not sure whether that's a compliment or an insult - scombroid poisoning can be a nasty thing. In which case...
R --> E
...it ill BECOMES you.
I know not what I write. I found the usage of the word on the net but not its definition.
OBSEME
obseme? Maybe the wordo's can check it out. Got to go.
Looks as though someone (or some OCR program) mis-read the handwritten characters "observe". Or several somebodies. Maybe??
Burn it, sez I, and let's see what arises from the EMBERS.
I've had a tiring day and my eyes keep snapping shut yet I can't let this go. So ya'll will excuse the extreme effort that has gone into this one.
Er..... MEMBERS (She said ducking her head in shame.)
Huh? I thought I went from HUMMERS to MUSHERS yesterday.
Hit the wrong button, I guess.
Is the word MUSHERS then?
If so ...
Cut the M for monkey:
RHESUS
If it is still MUSHER, then the best I could come up with is THERMS (U->T)
If MUSHER > PUSHER
If Rhesus : S > D : RUSHED
I didn't see that MUSHERS had been used.
Let's just pick one and keep going.
RUSHED
change E to O
SHROUD
two words new to me: codgers, jawboning
RECORDS
No? Then how about eponyms?
SCOURS
add an E
CROESUS
SCORES
...which would bring us back to COURSES, if we're not mindful.
But as long as we're studying SCORES (we rehearsed Brahms' Deutches Requiem this evening!) , let's go from Oh to Ah and
CARESS the music. It truly deserves it.
CARETS
Choices, choices, choices!
S-->P and get CARPET?
T-->C for SCARCE?
Add an S and get an ACTRESS.
Better still, dress her in SCARLET.
CLARINET
Brahms' Deutches Requiem Ooh--is it as good as Mozart's Requiem?
Brahms' Deutches Requiem Ooh--is it as good as Mozart's Requiem?
Many would consider it so. It's extremely lyrical, not a standard Requiem Mass at all, being set instead to German texts that Brahms found moving, but is often sung in English translation. He had most of it sketched out and then finally completed it after the death of his mother. You can hear most if not all of the sections on YouTube.
Why not sit down with a glass of
CLARET some time and
listen to it?
Wow, thanks! It's not cloying at all.
TREACLE
TREACLE
- l
CREATE
(PS. I see CLARET was a repetition. My bad. I must have meant CARTEL. Yeah, that's right, I meant CARTEL.)
Why not sit down with a lovely glass of CARTEL ?
add H CHEATER ;-)
Just putting in a touch of THEATER.
Brahms' Deutches Requiem Ooh--is it as good as Mozart's Requiem?
Many would consider it so. It's extremely lyrical, not a standard Requiem Mass at all, being set instead to German texts that Brahms found moving, but is often sung in English translation. He had most of it sketched out and then finally completed it after the death of his mother. You can hear most if not all of the sections on YouTube.
Why not sit down with a glass of
CLARET some time and
listen to it?
Thanks so much for the YouTube site: I am thoroughly enjoying the Requiem again, for the third time.
It would be heresy to confuse claret with SHERRY.
E to R
What does HERESY have in common with PURPLE and SILVER?
But take out an R
And put in an M
And sometimes
It RHYMES !
Come, wofa, if you give me a doggerel
We can have a little snoggerel:
MASHER
S --> D
I just want to reassure everyone that no animals were
HARMED in the making of the anagram.
...well MATCHED
(sorry that took so long - I had to get new batteries for my mouse)
If you can have a wine-cork, can you also have a TEACORK ?
I don't think you did us any favors introducing the K...
TEACAKE is all I can come up with. Too close, most unsatisfying.
No wait, I take it back!
TEACORK
T==>R
CROAKER
Teacork? I have never drunk tea out of a wine bottle, but then I am not well travelled...
I worked ahead with TEACAKE and came up with ACETATE but CROAKER also gets us finally out of the oven and onto some brit slang.
-A for CORKER
This word means both remarkable person and preposterous lie?
I once had tea in Cork,
there was no cork on the pot
their tea is thick as peat
you should drink it with a fork.
Branshea says that the cork of the tea:
Not the bottle but the place to be
That the tea was thick might be true
But on it could you set float your shoe?
-
The person to blame for this thread suddenly bursting into rhyme in an entirely unacceptable and ruthless manner is ............ Wofa. Tea corks are very inspirational.
(how many other words do you know with the sequence "YHY" in the middle?)
...always pleased to be considered aMusing !
CORKER
Yesterday was coquetry
a reason to write poetry
but doggerel - like my and your way -
Is poorly reimbursed in Norway.
C --> N
KRONER
maybe add an S: later eliminate something else?
TEACAKES
O to U
NURSER
@LukeJ, Wofa took his teacake back, the niggard. (*i*)
Sorry: I often click on the "anagram stew" and go from where
it opens, instead of checking to see if there is a next page.
Mea culpa.
Yeh..but I can't forget that unsacred elusive teacake with apricots and
PRUNES............... and whipped cream and such.
using only the PUREST cream, at that
I'm fascinated by what you're doing, he said RAPTLY
PLAITED
(The next one could be for the birds, sez E)
(never could spell wurth a darn)
PlLATED
oh well, that'll teach me...
PILEATEDedit: add picture
pretty boy (Could I have embedded the actual pictire, rather than the URL? How?)
Love that woodpecker sound.
E to O
PETALOID To get the picture, copy-paste to you files, then upload to a image hosting service, then copy the Url they give and use the 4th from the left button of the menu. (Don't know if there is a shorter way, but you cannot upload directly from you files)
( except avatar images)
I'm fascinated by what you're doing, he said RAPTLY
"I'm fascinated by that little hammer," said Tom raptly.
Simulposting! Hi, Avy!
TABLOID
D --> R
ORBITAL
Orbital is terrific, wof! I could not get a single word out of tabloid.
T to P
PARBOIL
--
Makes me ...
BIPOLAR
Where is everyone?
That's a toughie! Gotta go to the ends of the Earth for this one...
Did you know there is a genus of fungus called [B-->E]
PERIOLA ?
Neither did I.
Apparently it comes from New Zealand, so I guess that's understandable on both our parts.
(Could I have embedded the actual pictire, rather than the URL? How?)
[whisper] What I do is go to Google Images, then copy the address of the one I want into the Enter an Image box here--it's the fourth icon from the left. Also, I have only ever used "Insert a non-floating image"--I'm kind of afraid of finding out what exactly a "floating image" is...
Oh, yes--I sometimes have difficulty finding an image small enough; IMHO they need to be pretty small so as not to overwhelm this place.[/whisper]
Hmm...I think that's exactly what I did. Oh, well. Can't win 'em all...
When I was in Venezuela fifty-odd years age I came across a children's toy called a
PERINOLA. We played with it like a vertical yo-yo.
Here's one in the lower left-hand corner,
and see how to use it
here .
There are only 2 choices, so I'll take
+s
POLARIZES
LEOPARDIZERR--->D
PIEZOLADDER - an as-yet unmanufactured device to generate electricity by stepping on the rungs as you climb
[Heh heh - Bet you thought I was
making it up , didn't you !] [Well, almost...
]
That was my first thought! Took some thinking to come up with it.
DEMORALIZES , we came to that point before.
D to P TEMPORALIZE Where is the word shrinker?
Oh no, clever cousin, we got to chop this word's head of.
If not the head then the tail..
TEMPORALIS ( the 11 letter curse) add N
TRAMPOLINES
I for Y
TRAINTIME (compund word ?)
TRAINTIMEperhaps we'd get a different picture if we tried I --> G
REMATTING
Or an R-rated picture if we Drop T:
REMATING
Drop the R rating to get
TEAMING
Or add an S to get back the "R"
STEAMING
Or add the R back again to get
STREAMING.
EMIGRANT
came from M --> S
TANGIERS
Ha, we have been in TANGIERS before but lets not go to angriest or ganister again.
A to S TRIGNESS
SIGNETS
a stone in a nice
SETTING
STINGIER
I --> R
RESTRING
Guitar Hero!
Add an "S", perhaps that will give some added clues.
SONGWRITERS
Add an "S", perhaps that will give some added clues.
SONGWRITERS
It appears that we are stuck.
Is there someone in the powers-that-be who can "unstick" us?
Someone in charge of ROOLZ?
Perhaps go back a few steps or something of the like????
Drop W and more
OSTRINGERS
Continuer a diminuer, and take another step backwards:
T --> E and undergo REGRESSION
there is I --> T
ROTTENNESS
(with apologies to Will S.)
(and any Danes who may be lurking)
Add H >SOUTHERN (we've been here before)
- U
THRONES
( at least it is moving )
SHERATON
We all sit on our
-A
THRONESoops
and get stung by
HORNETS
I think we've gone this route before.
HONEST.
M --> S
SMOKEY
{Only you can fight...)
Drop M
SKEIN
(No, Luke. Not "Skinem")
Aunt Emily KNITS E to Tea
-K = NITS
or
-N = KITS
or add a C and have TICKS
(I know some I'd like to "skin", Beck)
TICKS
It's March, heading into April, so the winds are getting blustery, and it's a good season for
KITES.
...and one of them was a SALTED.
Peanut.
(with apologies to Monty Python)
I think you meant L > N but you typed R > D
INSTEAD.
EDITIONS
OR
D --> S NOISIEST
Hey, Luke! Where's the other "E"???
Sorry, back to
ESSONITE, whatever that is. I'd look it up in the
dictionary, but I'm too lazy.
You missed a rather precious stone by being lazy and this tends to be running round in circles.
page 37
PENSIONSS-->I
If you give your evaluations via the Internet - have you rendered
E-PINIONS ?
- E-
PINIONS
must be looking in wrong places for pretty stone
or is this April Fools?
No, it's no April Fools.
esˇsoˇnite , also hesˇsoˇnite
n.A brown or yellowish-brown variety of garnet. Also called cinnamon stone.
No, it's no April Fools.
esˇsoˇnite , also hesˇsoˇnite
n.A brown or yellowish-brown variety of garnet. Also called cinnamon stone.
No no no...
HERE is the real essonite. :0)
Rick Astley: 1987: April Fools??
I'll mis out on that one. This is what it says:
This video contains contents of Vevo, which is blocked for your country for copyright reasons. Poor my country.
I found the music but fail to see the connection to essonite.
Never mind. Happy Easter days.
What I thought as well: April Fools?????
Well, anyhow, back to PINIONS
+o
OPINIONS
sorry, I should have provided a link:
rickrollinggotta love the internet.
For someone,myself primarily, who has little computer/internet
experience, that is even a mouthful of Wiki to absorb.
But I get it: April Fools! (At least, NOW I get it).
Y'ALL GOT RICKROLL'D!!!!! he he he he he he he he
yes, APRIL FOOLS ;0D
should have changed instead of eliminating:
T > P
POUTING
G >>>>>>>>>>>offffffff for S
SPINOUT
Something is missing in the link: I get a blank on the page.
out with the other O !
O-->E
INSTEP
G --> U should get an
AIRGUN
(It would be music to my ears if the next step was N-->T, said Andres)
Always fun to give someone a TREAT and find out how they
REACT ! (Just ask the CATERer to TRACE the ^ CRATE. )
Oh yes, and thank you for
I'll always have a warm spot in my heart for that man. What a genius.
>>>Out with the I!
TREAT
I am a little confused about this game then.
If we can add or subtract to the quantity of letters, how is that anagramatical.* If we can add or subtract to the quantity of letters, isn't this really just listing words without art?
Not attacking, just asking. I think I may have misunderstood the point since I came late to the game.
* not sure if anagramatical is a word, but you know what I mean I'm sure.
The basic agreement is: the word gets changed by adding or substracting one letter and scramble it. (just adding an s for plural is pretty dull though sometimes the only way to get on). You can also just rehash without adding or substracting.
In with the apostrophe!
'TATER
* not sure if anagramatical is a word, but you know what I mean I'm sure.
My eye wants to spell it
anagrammatical... but I don't think it's a "real" word either; that's never stopped me! I love makin' up words! :0)
Another explanatory effort:
Using the existing word, make a new word. To do so, you may either
a) leave all the letters the same and anagram them, or
b) change one letter and anagram the result (or not, since the letters may already be in the correct order to form a new word,) or
C) add or delete one letter and either anagram the result or not, as in (b.)
These three are "or" choices - mutually exclusive - so only one may be applied per turn.
And (of course) stay tuned, because the rules could change at any time.
You forgot one, and it's a "must": do not repeat any previous entries. :0)
I wasn't specific enough about that, but yes: that's exactly what I meant by "make a new word."
...but who can remember EVERY word we've ever used? in 1049 posts or so...
Just anagramming isn't enough. (We invoked that a while back.) Something has to be changed besides the order. Add/insert a letter and arrange; or take out a letter and arrange; or, change a letter and arrange. (The identity arrangement is not embraced but is accepted.)
TATER
add D
TETRAD
At least, that's what they say is the site of the hill that names
V --> L
HILLSIDE Avenue in Queens, Long Island, NY.
A little-known hangout of Rita Moraine-o.
Out with his I!
SHILLED
I like HUNDRED much better than SHUDDER.
CROWDED
(Choice was between that and Frankie and Johnny - he was her man, but he WRONGED her. Never did like Frankie.)
I may get (shudder) reported for this:
R --> G
DRUDGE
At least, Caesar said so:
G AU L
(all GAUL is divided into three parts)
(or, this one's for the birds)
ROOK
...got so angry he
PURPLED
Oops! Sorry, Jackie, looks like you got there first.
PLEAT
Winter's over. Finally. Who's the
PALEST ?
STIPPLE
("EEL SPIT" was considered and rejected.)
(Along with Tiny Tim and his ukulele?)
TESTA
(which, as every crossword puzzle devotee knows, is the five-letter equivalent of "aril")
TOCSINS
E --> C
(Haven't we been through the eosin-noise-nosiest series before?)
CARBONITE(How's that for an explosive reaction!?)
S --> U
TROUBLE(and I just realized... if BR-->G you get GOULET, as in Robert, who sang the song as Professor Harold Hill in
The Music Man. That
monologue was a tour de force, it was!)
No, he didn't. It was Robert Preston. Nice try, Doc. Good thing we're on a first-name basis here.
The Music Man. Now I know where rap music comes from.
O --> D
BEFUDDLE
(Do you think there's anything of Elmer Fudd in that word?)
... found an R, and some cliffs, and
CLAMBERED up!
( also CLAMBERED E-->S makes SCRAMBLED )
EMBRACED
A-->E
DECEMBER
REMARKED
I corrected the test papers again, he said casually.
They wouldn't let the lawyer into the pub after he'd been
DEBARRED
And the beer there, of course, had been
BARRELED
It needs a different vowel
D to > B CEREBRAL
Luke? Look three entries back!
Going around in circles again?????
H-->S
SUCCOR(What are you doing up at that hour, Jackie?
)
slow down, you move too fast!
GOURD
add E
DROGUE
A>I, said the two-toed sloth
ISOLDE
Which was a nice one
S to E >
DARIOLE
E --> I
TIVOLI (or, in a lighter vein,
TIVOLI )
Oh, weird to see a purely Dutch word here.
'AUCTION', but then I remembered the noun 'veil'.
...if bees are few
ENABLED(homage to
Emily Dickinson )
Nice little poem, E.D. 's
Drop N
BEADLE
When things start to unRavel, just put on
BOLERO
(No, silly, not the skirt, the music!)
When things start to unRavel LOL!
BLOWER
"See what's bothering the mutt," he GROWLED.
W --> R
I'd like a toy for someone a little OLDER
HIDEOUTS
Interesting. Drop the H, make a minimal rearrangement, and your cover is completely blown:
OUTSIDE
T>H = Hideous, but I went that route above - -
so: t > v = DEVIOUS
VIDEOS
Anybody remember? "Captain Video, and the Video Rangers!!" The theme music was from the Fliegende Hollander. No, I didn't think so. That's too long ago...
I remember Captain Video.
ITNESS
as opposed to maleness of femaleness
[Well, of course you never heard of it before. I just made it up!]
D > A
TANSIES
I even defined it so you don't have to look it up. I have some
in my garden.
I guess one should put the two words together????
I don't think we've run into a two word-er before:
so
- S
NATTIEST
Sorry Luke, I just couldn't resist.
FATTIEST
...no way ! Or at least, no A!
FITTEST
(There, that's better)
...no one (including me) has come up with anything better
OUTLAW
TYRES
(You'll find these in bicycle stores, not too far from the Ninevehs)
+G
GRATER
Add a letter to the mix for sake of interest.
- (m); + b
BALING
{despite the symbol of Siva}
OR
Linga(m) - without the (m) +C
LACING
I could piggyback and go "bland", but I think I'll
remove the "D" and change it to an "O" getting:
NOBLE
Hey, Luke, you were a bit liberal with the number of changes you made to get to that word!
rallied >>> d to b
liberal
How, honorable Beck?
BRAILLE
I looked at it on two separate days and didn't see it!
THAT'S OK.
I do that all the time. Then edit the post to delete.
Braille and Liberal: same letters. I did not know we
could do that. Have thought of it a number of times.
@ Luke: Check post number 187919 on page 6 to see the first instance (of many) in this thread of just rearranging.
BAILER
@ Luke: Check post number 187919 on page 6 to see the first instance (of many) in this thread of just rearranging.
BAILER Guess I did it myself without even remembering. Cannot remember
if there are rules for this 'game' or not. Thought that maybe
one had to replace a letter, or remove one each time, not just
rearrange. But in all reality, what does it matter as long
as decent change is made. Thanks Beck.
shuffle =
REDIAL, RAILED, RELAID
TOILING
add A
INTAGLIO
(or, tying it all up, LIGATION)
LOCATING
add an E
CALGONITE
...if we drop a G in favor of an O
GRANULATION
an S
GRANULATIONS
I hate to just add the "s", but this one has me stumped.
S
to see if we can get this word off on another road:
STRANGULATIONS
Dn't take this as a serius submissin, but if yu make ne S a C yu'll get
CONGRATULATINS !
(Does that mean - "Kudos to the Hispanic!"?)
But when I add you a serious O no one will ever notice the tiny irregularity. ;-)
CONGRATULATIONS!
OK to both your suggestions. But as they say:
"I got nuthin'".
Perhaps we need to retire it after 90-some pages and
start over, as we did the last one. It is amazing,
however, how long it went on. I'll be watching to
see what you do with what is there, even with the
"adjustments".
STRANGULATIONS
S-I
TRIANGULATIONS
Excellent Olly.
Adjustments helped you see it.
Adjustments helped you see it. Nope, just happened to be passing
Well, I for one, am very glad you were passing by.
Stop in any time.
I suggest we put a stake in its heart and start a new one, right here.
I'll offer this to start:
OCCULT
Since this thread has almost a thousand posts to it already, what say we start over
here with a new #1.