| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
This is a game I think I invented during a boring meeting several years
ago:
pig sand
Big Band
BAg BEnd
BAN BEAd
BAt BEAM
Bet BEAt
met BElt
etc. Bolt
molt
etc.
The only rule is to try to avoid using the same letter twice in
the changes.
For a starter word of three letters, it's a no-brainer; at four
letters, it's a little more challenging; but I've only done it with
a five letter starter with only one group of words; and never with six.
If there is any interest, I suggest documenting only the five-or-more
letter words.
Clint
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| 912.1 | EFGV04::LEE | Wed Sep 04 1991 12:36 | 10 | ||
I saw a version of this game as a child. Some magazine (I forget now which) used to run a weekly puzzle like this, with: "Change: 'xxx' to 'yyy' in 5 or less steps". The added angle of interest was that xxx and yyy were often 'related' words with the same number of letters. eg. 'hand' to 'foot', 'grape' to 'apple', etc. I was never any good at it ! | |||||
| 912.2 | IEDUX::jon | I'm in an Ealing comedy | Wed Sep 04 1991 15:26 | 12 | |
An English humour magazine called The Truth used to have competitions based on a variation of this. The idea was to use only acronyms rather than normal words. They had things like 'convert CIA to KGB in the fewest number of steps'. I won �10 or so in this. As this is the only time I've ever won anything in a magazine competition, I am unreasonably proud of this achievement. Jon | |||||
| 912.3 | JIT081::DIAMOND | Order temporarily out of personal name | Thu Sep 05 1991 03:22 | 8 | |
>'convert CIA to KGB in the fewest number of steps'.
Well, if we're converting acronyms instead of words, I'd say the
solution is always pretty straightforward.
Of course, in this particular case, the step is to arrest the CIA's
leaders :-) but of course that makes it inappropriate for this
conference.
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