Re: My tough take on Word Ladder

henh...@gmail.com wrote:

(ONE  -->  TWO)

1-letter  change:      one     owe    ..........  ???

2-letter change     one     toe     two
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are    4-letter (word)    versions    too easy ?   

(EASY  -->  HARD)        easy  -  hazy  -  hard

eggs -> emus

(eggs  -->  BIRD)         ( eggs   (bigs?)    bags     (bard)   ... )

                                       eggs -  bags - bids - bird

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The original Doublet  was called   [Word Golf]   by Nabokov.

i'd call this   [Word-Hop]   because  advancing 2-at-a-time   is like

Hopping (with both feet)  instead of walking

verb      hops, hopping or hopped (intr)       ===   to make a jump

forwards or upwards, esp on one foot (intr)

                     (esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards

in short jumps

For animals, we say they hop when they jump with two feet or all of their

feet at one time. Think of how a bunny rabbit moves: The animal is
hopping.

Can you hop on two feet?  ------  A hop is a light and small jump,

usually on the same place but not always. A hop is performed by leaping off
the ground with the body totally in the air, defying gravity for a while,
usually done with only one leg especially for humans. In animals such as
rabbits or kangaroos, they can use both their feet to hop.

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 6:53:23 AM UTC-7, Graham Smith wrote:

A bit over a year ago, I introduced Ladderet to this group - my novel

variant of the standard Word Ladder puzzle. The puzzle is now on Twitter
and Facebook. It’s entirely free. I publish one puzzle every weekday. I’ve
clocked up ten weeks now.

 Wordle was the stimulus for this venture. Ladderet also uses 5-letter

words and it is meant to be solved in a similar amount of time.

 On Twitter, I tweet the puzzle under the username @PuzzleSmith. On Facebook, I have a page for the puzzle. Search for ‘LadderetPuzzle’

to find it.

 Ladderet is different from a standard word ladder in three respects: 1. The words are 5 letters long. 2. There are just two intermediate rungs on the ladder. 3. On each step, EXACTLY 2 letters must be changed.  An example puzzle: RACKS * * * * * * * * * * BRAIN  Solution (there is only ever one - using commonplace words): RACKS BASKS BASIN BRAIN  Here is puzzle #45: TWIST * * * * * * * * * * WATCH  The solution is on Twitter and Facebook.

      nice.