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repied (To "pie" is to take a tray of type that has been set and to scramble it utterly. I suppose if that happened once and now you did it again...you're in trouble with the Chief Compositor!) PS I have a couple of nice follow-ups but they lead to a dead end so I'll wait... | |||
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Question for you experts in this game...When you come up with your answers, do you think ahead to what other possible words will be? Maybe that's my problem because I don't do that. | |||
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You bet...and that's part of the challenge, coming up with words that don't lead to dead ends. For example - repies repiles reptiles but now what? See-how-clever-I-am, but it brings the game screeching to a halt. That's counterproductive, (Unless that's your goal after all - Stump-the-Experts, as it were - but that's a different game entirely!) | |||
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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 repied repies repiles reptiles reptile retile retime retire Note: Can we figure out how to get rid of the "re" at the beginning? | |||
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retile retime retire retile retiled retailed retained (or remailed) remained remined remind remand (not needed but it's such a nice word I didn't have the heart to leave it out) remend emend amend amen | |||
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amen men man many any [This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sat Jun 7th, 2003 at 20:02.] | |||
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any cany cane cake  Back to where we started! Someone want to start with a new word? Or shall we continue with cake?  | |||
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In my whiniest voice, I just want you all to know that I would think of one, only to be beaten to it! I was so looking forward to posting "replied" after "repied", but came to the computer to see "repies", "repiles" and then "reptiles"; of course those were better than mine anyway...so my whine is even louder!  I hate not being good at games!  BTW, I couldn't find "repiles" in dictionary.com nor onelook; what does it mean? | |||
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I'd better be the one to rationalize --er, defend it... If one makes a pile of, say, poker chips, and then it is knocked over ("pied," as it were), and then one decides they really should be piled up, what does one do? repiles them, of course. (Okay, okay, so it isn't in onelook.com. Who ya gonna believe, anyway, me or some strange dictionary? Consider it "onelook.com-derivable.") | |||
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quote:Well, I suddenly don't feel quite so whiney!  The fact is, it should be a word, if it isn't. I will try Bailey's 1727 dictionary; who knows, maybe it got lost over the years as "epicaricacy" did.  | |||
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quote: New word.... Word | |||
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Circling, changing each letter, and then changing back. word cord core care cane wane wand ward word VASE | ||
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vase base bass bats cats cots cops tops tips taps naps raps saps sips sins fins okay I think I am done now heat  | |||
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heat heart hearth hearths then there's... heat beat neat feat seat meat peat pet pit put pot pat sat sit sis his hiss miss piss kiss feast | |||
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Looks like we have a new version of the game going! I'm game!  And a heartfelt welcome back to blues! We've missed your voice here on the forum. | |||
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I have the feeling that there are relatively few common words that can't be transformed into each other by following these rules. (Not zero, certainly - I can't think of a single thing to follow "syzygy," for example, or "xysma" - but not many, for reasonable words.) At least the short ones, say six letters or less... feast fast fat fate mate mite mine amine famine pen pend pond pore wore word sword How 'bout penny...dollar? [This message was edited by haberdasher on Fri Jun 13th, 2003 at 19:03.] | |||
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quote: Here's my best shot (bottom line: a pain!!) penny benny beany bean dean dear deal real ream cream dream drear arear area are dare dore dora dor dour door dolor dolour Old saying: "Ching-chong Chinaman, sittin' on a fence, tryna make a dollar outta fifteen cents." cent ... pound | |||
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POUND round sound found hound bound mound mount NEVER | |||
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Hi blues! You can add another dimension of difficulty and make the game even more interesting if you post the "starting" word and the "ending" word. Sorta like ==> cent pent pont pout proud prod pod pond pound How about NEVER ... SUNDAY ?? ~~~ jerry | |||
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cent pent pend pond pound Tinman [This message was edited by tinman on Thu Jun 12th, 2003 at 22:17.] | |||
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I couldn't make them work either without taking a few liberties, but that said: cent cant cane mane mine miner miler miller diller (you know, the one who puts the spice into the pickle brine) dillar (as in "a dillar, a dollar, a ten-o'clock scholar...") dollar Never lever liver live lave nave navy nary unary undry (in the spirit of re-pile) sundry Sunday (In some cases using a relatively loose definition of the word "word") | |||
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Okay, let's try penny peony peon pen pent cent and take it from there... | |||
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Hey, anyone wanna leave some new words for this ever changing game? | |||
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aardvark ....... zebra | |||
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Aw, c'mon, Jerry, are you trying to play the game or spoil it? You win, we give up, they're both dead ends. "... relatively few common words that can't be transformed into each other by following these rules. (Not zero, certainly - I can't think of a single thing to follow "syzygy," for example, or "xysma" - but not many, for reasonable words.)" Let's back up and start over. How about single ===> many [This message was edited by haberdasher on Fri Jun 13th, 2003 at 19:40.] | |||
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quote: Most of what I do is done in a spirit of fun. The "aardvark ... zebra" thing was posted in a rare moment of youthful exhuberance. No malice intended. ~~~ jerry | |||
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Haberdasher, you are too good for me! single mingle mangle mange mang many smart stupid I'll be honest; I don't have the knack for this yet, so I have no idea how to choose the words. | |||
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I can't do Stupid; will you take Dummy? smart start tart tar tam lam lamp lump lumpy dumpy dummy Apple ===> Dell | |||
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words swords swores spores pores pares pases phases phrases phrase May I please ask someone else to post the next two words because I am not good at that? Thanks! | |||
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please ===> thanks | |||
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please pleas leas lees tees thees these theme themes Thames thanes thanks free ..... style [This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sun Jun 15th, 2003 at 8:53.] | |||
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Great, Jerry! I thought I had you on "lee" or "lea", but they are both legitimate words. | |||
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"thees" entered into google gets 14,200 hits versus only 92 for "swores" ... moving right along .... I yield to thee. | |||
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free fee feet felt melt molt mole sole stole style How about a grand tour through the integers? one ===> ===> ... ===> ===> ten stopping at all the intermediate numbers along the way? (I think we've agreed to be generous in our definition of allowable words, but we really don't need to invoke this here...) | |||
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I am the culprit here. I questioned "repiles". Yes, I think haberdasher is right that we have to be generous. However, you are correct, Jerry; "swores" doesn't work. Correction: words word sword swore, etc. As far as haberdasher's suggestion, do you want someone to go through all the numbers, one through ten? It doesn't seem possible to me, or if it is, wouldn't it take forever? Am I understanding this correctly? Just when I catch on a bit, the rules get a lot harder! | |||
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quote: Well, I don't feel particularly generous. There must be a standard; otherwise any nonce word will do. I propose the word must be found and defined at dictionary.com, since everyone on this board has access to that site. I would not allow acronyms, such as thees, that are found but not defined at dictionary.com; they are linked to Acronym Finder. I would only allow those acronyms, such as radar and awol that are found and defined at dictionary.com. By the way, repiles would not qualify. Tinman | |||
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I can tell thee that I love thee. How many thees in that? one on an wan swan swat twat ... twa two two twa twat ... swat shat shah shad shed she the thee three [This message was edited by jerry thomas on Mon Jun 16th, 2003 at 2:18.] | |||
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three thee the tie fie fir for four (PS: also possible, but less picturesque, is one on ton to two to toe the thee three and can be made shorter still if you'll accept "two-tho-the") | |||
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three thee tree fee fie foe for four our oar far fir fire five dive dine sine sin six sex lex lev leve love live liven river driver drive drove rove reve rev ref reef reep seep seer sever seven [This message was edited by jerry thomas on Mon Jun 16th, 2003 at 9:15.] | |||
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...could have gone straight from SEX to see to seen to seven, but I guess then you would have missed all that lovely afterplay ! | |||
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quote:Well, with all those lofty standards, at least you have to play the game with us once in awhile! | |||
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seven seen see sere sire sir sin sign sigh sight eight (thanks, Kalleh, for the heads-up :-) ) [This message was edited by haberdasher on Tue Jun 17th, 2003 at 18:03.] | |||
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eight weight weigh neigh night sight sigh sign sin sine nine tine tin ten marathon ===> waterloo [This message was edited by jerry thomas on Mon Jun 16th, 2003 at 17:35.] | |||
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ten teen seen seven even elven (well, maybe not in dictionary.com but 317,000 hits on Google® )eleven | |||
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eleven Leven even elven (as above) elve delve Telve (something to do with Turkey) twelve Jerry, haberdasher, you are fantastic! Shufitz and I spent some time over coffee, writing on a napkin, trying to get "eight" from "seven". We weren't able to.  I don't know how you two do it! I bet there is a more legitimate way to get from eleven to twelve, as well. | |||
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Do we have to stop just because we got to ten? How about forty ===> fifty (no need to stop at the integers along the way) | |||
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...and also thirty ===> forty, while we're at it! Edit: My goodness, Page Two already? See also end of Page One! | |||
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