Recently in the acronyms game, plastic was followed by elastic, and this got me thinking about the possibility for a new, hybrid game. I was thinking about blending the acronym game with the game invented by Lewis Caroll, where you change a word one letter at a time into another word. It occurred to me that making the one letter change and supplying an acronym for the changed word could be a bit more of a challenge. It could also be an interesting exercise in free association, an opportunity for totally spontaneous thread-drift, something that has never, ever happened here before.

So, here's my proposal:

We start with a word, and its acronym. Along with the initial word, a given number of steps. Then we just see where we end up.

In case anybody wants to have a go, here's a starter, for ten (steps, that is)

Wet
Inclement
Nasty
Torpid
Enervating
Relentless

I'll go with the obvious change, and see if I got the idea. (Sorry, I'm not so hot with the word part.)

Wonderfully
Intelligent
Nice
Newbie
Experiences
Recognition

SINNER

Simply inventing naughty niceties: evil rogue!

SINGER

Stunning Ingenue Notably Gets Enormous Range

SINGED

standing innocently near grill engendered danger

DINGED

Dented
In
Near
Grill
Every
Damntime!


dented in near grill every damntime!

Docking
Involves
No
Gasoline
Engine
YIPPEE!

Is dingey a Brit-speak spelling of some kind, I hope? If not, Gamemaster, do we go back to dinged? I would have gone with hinged, from there, but couldn't think of words to go with it.
And--in creating new words, should we take into consideration whether a new word CAN be made from what we've done? I started to put something else instead of winner, but couldn't think of another word that could be made from it.

isn't it allowed to add/subtract a letter? I considered going from singer to singe. what about transposing:
sing > sign?

I would say no to both, based on my experience with word games, but the Gamemaster may say differently.

ooh, I'd vote yes to tansposing - it could make for some interesting variations that mean we don't get locked into common endings or beginnings, don't all you-all think?

Is dingey a Brit-speak spelling of some kind, I hope?

Well, it's now an official American variant, isn't it?

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I prefer the inherently longer, utopian game, but my guess is "y'all'r gonna need lotsa threads to keep this one going, so help yourself...

I've never seen dingey before, but I've never seen damn time spelled as one word before either, so obviously the USn contingent has adopted the "we don't need no steenkin' rulz" philosophy. As for transposition, I say go for it. All I reall wanted to see was where we would end up, which is why I suggested the Carollian addition. An exercise in psycholinguistics, as Hari Seldon might have called it.

dingey

\Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee dingi.]
1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.] --Malcom.
2. A ship's smallest boat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Thanks, tsuwm. I did wonder if it was a variant of dinghy, but decided, wrongly, that it was probably a variant of dingy instead.

Doing
It
Now
Guarantees
Every
Reverberation

Helloooo, helloooo, do you see me all the way back here, lagging behind you speedy brainiacs, hellooo...

Sheesh, I couldn't manage the first game, by the time I finally came up with a definition that fit the acronym, you guys'd be five words along.

Carry on.

Dying
Ineffectively
Gallipoli
Graves
Evoke
Resentment

DAGGER

deep aggrieivous gashes generate eruptions red

Thank you, tsuwm.

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...so obviously the USn contingent has adopted the "we don't need no steenkin' rulz" philosophy...

Dude, where've you been for the last 228yrs (or so)?

"Definitely avoid narcoleptic gaming", everyone's reminded.

HANGER

Here's another nice garment easily re-racked.

Have all news delivered expeditiously, relay.

Here's another noteworthy ditty; exclaim loudly!

(I realize there might not be an English word that can be formed from this, but I couldn't resist.)

Thanks y'all. It seemed to be getting bogged down, but it was still not a bad little effort, 15 steps from Winter to Handel, each one acronymified. I'm still waiting for someone to tackle Chaucerian, btw.

It could easily have gone to handed, or (stretching) Hansel.
Usually in this kind of puzzle, you're to end up with an opposite, or at least related, word. Such as winter --> summer. Bit too difficult in this venue, though.

I'm still waiting for someone to tackle Chaucerian, btw. ~ max

Chaucerian

Chatty horseback adventurers unto Canterbury eeeasily ride in ancient narrative.

chancer Ian

coppers
have
absolutely
no
clue
especially
regarding
Ian's
aminus
nocendi

it seems no-one is taking up the chancer Ian challenge, or maybe i have misunderstood the game. hows about PLAYER for ten then

Provide
Leadership,
And
You
Earn
Rewards

PRAYER

Profess
Religion
As
You
Each
Regard

I see two obvious changes from prayer.

Predator
Rapacious
Ever
Yearning
Eats
Ravenously

Gloomy
Room
Exhausts
Your
Emotional
Resources

Granddad reads American, yet expects results!

Burro - raucous, assertive, yet ever resilient.

Beaten by minutes!

Beyond
Rationalized
Action -
Verily,
'Eroism
Rampant

Bear's
Eccentric
Action
Validates
Environmentalists'
Reluctance

Bringing
Equipment
And
Resources
Expertly,
Rapidly

beader

bright, etched artful details, eyed raptly

Bacchanalian
Excess
Nonetheless
Delivers
Exquisite
Relief

Tactile
Exploration
Noticbly
Defuses
Emotional
Reaction

Lucrative enhancements - never doubting early repayment

Lacking egalitarianism, autocrats draft excessive regulations.

Rapacious
Examiner,
Always
Discovering;
Educable,
Receptive.

red
exception
dark
deep
even
rubytoned

Rumble
On
Down,
Drive
Extreme
Racecar

Fecund
Odiferous
Dirt
Does
Environment
Richer

feelings
once
negligible
deepen
ever
rapidly

Free
Inquiry
Naturally
Derives
Expected
Result

Flinders
Escaping
Needn’t
Damage
Expensive
Rugs

Bingeing
Every
Night
Drains
Energy
Resources

meticulus
effort
negates
damage
ever
resourceful

Made Every Notable Dent Effortlessly Disappear

Hey, sheepish--nice to see you! 'Bout time, too!

Thanks, Jackie.
Coffeebean told me I should check out the new acrostics games, so here I am.

Miffed
Indignant
Neurotically
Dumfounded
Emotionally
Damaged

Made
Impressions,
Nickels,
Tokens,
Even
Dimes

tresses
icy
now
tedious,
eventually
dyed

timely
inspected
nests,
tinted
eggs
reveal


too bad, pale (robin's egg) blue isn't available as a color

Those Inflamed Notions Do Engender Rage.

cosy
inglenook
near-by
decaying
embers,
red

"book" includes neatly divided entries, ringed!

Blackouts
In
Nighttime
Glug-glug-glugging
Excessive
Rum

sounds,
incredibly
nice,
growing,
ever
ringing

loitering
in
neighborhood,
garden,
easway,
rested

Zesty
Innuendo
Nearly
Gets
Everyone's
Response

Filched!
Items
Not
Gotten
Entirely
Righteously

Have we run aground on this thread? Time to start a new one?