I saw this game at another site and thought we could try it here.

Use a word like find
1. Add an 's' to make finds
2. Change the 'i' to an 'u' and get fund
3. Or remove the 'd' and get fin

Only use one choice per turn. Add, Remove or Change a letter.

I'll start it with the word

Cake

come

pome

Tinman

pole

What about dropping a letter and addin 's'....not sure I feel brave enough for that.

poll

Tadpole

(Any restrictions in your mind as to where the added letter can go? Must it be at the end?)

cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool

Haberdasher, this is what Morgan wrote in the introductory post:

'Use a word like find
1. Add an 's' to make finds
2. Change the 'i' to an 'u' and get fund
3. Or remove the 'd' and get fin

Only use one choice per turn. Add, Remove or Change a letter.'

So Im not sure where an added letter might go without breaking any rules!

I am tempted to write
SPOOL

adding the letter at the beginning but, erring on the side of caution, I'll stick with
fool

I have just thought that if this continued, the word could become much longer and the game, consequently, much more interesting and somewhat harder! perhaps I shoul offer up both SPOOL and FOOL and leave the choice to the next player.

Surely you can add the letter wherever you like? I agree with Taddy!


Let's get shot of the double O with

SPOIL

Can we delete a letter AND change the order?

May we?
Could we?
Should we?



SLIP

????

cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool
spool
spoil

I agree: we should be able to insert the letter wherever we want, because it's left unstipulated. (This is not 1984, in which anything not specificallly permitted is forbidden.) But to change more than one thing at a time _is_ specifically excluded.

I don't see anywhere to go after SPOIL except SOIL.

(There are ways to kill a line, and we need to agree whether there is virtue in propagating the line or in bringing it screeching to a halt...)

Let's just see where it takes us!

cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool
spool
spoil
soil

toil

coil
coal
coral
oral
orale

(better watch out - this is taking us perilously close to cake again!)

cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool
spool
spoil
soil
toil
coil
coal
coral
oral
orale

rale

cake ===> coke ===> come ===> pome ===> pole ===> poll ===>
pool ===> spool ===> spoil ===> soil ===> toil ===> coil ===>
coal ===> coral ===> oral ===> orale ===> rale ===> sale ===>
able


amble (think big, girl, think BIG!)

ramble

Getting there...

Short of brambles I think we might have backed ourselves into a corner, unless someone wants to cheat and take 2 moves in one!

Ros

how abouit gramble ??

it's what happens when Gramma grumbles.

I vote that if we can allow pome we can allow gramble. and from there we go to grumble, as you mentioned. After that we move on to

rumble

dictionary.com has six entries for pome and none, of course, for gramble.



humble

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Tue May 27th, 2003 at 10:59.]

it's just a new apple-ication of the word "pome"
besides, grambling is a venerable institution with a proud history

bumble

(could have made that "hum-able," like some advertising jingles, but we're trying to keep this thing going...)

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Tue May 27th, 2003 at 11:17.]

Sorry to have created all the fuss!

cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool
spool
spoil
soil
toil
coil
coal
coral
oral
orale
rale
sale
sable
able
amble
ramble
bramble
gramble (tee hee)
rumble
humble
bumble

tumble

quote:

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Originally posted by jerry thomas:
dictionary.com has six entries for pome and none, of course, for gramble.

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Gramble may not be in dictionary.com, but tramble is.
bramble
tramble
tremble
remble
semble
I'm lost from there.

Tinman

[This message was edited by tinman on Wed May 28th, 2003 at 0:46.]

quote:

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Originally posted by jerry thomas:
mumble

---

rumble
ramble
amble
able
ablet
ablest
blest
lest
list
last
lass
ass
as
a

Tinman

a
an
ran
rang
sing
sine
vine
ovine
opine
spine
shine
shone
short

Take it away, sport...

sporty

sports

sorts

ports

poets

Of course, because today's Friday.

posts

posits

prosits

"Many prositswere heard from the audience"

profits

I have been dying to find a word that fits but does not shorten this word. Interestingly, with Google I can find a number of sites for "drofits", though it seems to just be a misspelling of "profits" in the links. Stange!

Let's catch up here....


cake
coke
come
pome
pole
poll
pool
spool
spoil
soil
toil
coil
coal
coral
oral
orale
rale
sale
sable
able
amble
ramble
bramble
gramble (tee hee)
rumble
humble
bumble
tumble
mumble
rumble
ramble
amble
able
ablet
ablest
blest
lest
list
last
lass
ass
as
a
an
ran
rang
sing
sine
vine
ovine
opine
spine
shine
shone
short
sport
sporty
sports
sorts
ports
poets
posts
posits
prosits
profits

PROFIT

prefit

refit

relit

relic

relics

relies

replies

replied

Jerry, haberdasher, you are creative! I just can't come up with anything different.