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From: HenHanna@gmail.com (HenHanna)
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Subject: Re: My tough take on Word Ladder
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 08:17:52 +0000
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henh...@gmail.com wrote:

> (ONE  -->  TWO)

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

> 2-letter change     one     toe     two
> ______________________

> are    4-letter (word)    versions    too easy ?    

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

> eggs -> emus

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

>                                        eggs -  bags - bids - bird

> ______________________

> 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.