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Sunday, January 27, 2008
HOWLS:
I have invented a new kind of word puzzle: The “HOWL”, or Homonymic Word Ladder. In an ordinary word ladder, you change one word into another in a series of steps. At each step, you change one letter, in place, to form a new word. In a HOWL, you are also allowed to replace a word by its homonym. Here's a simple example: Build a HOWL from Duet to Pucker: Duet Duct Ducked Sucked Sucker Pucker.
Here's a simple one for you: Build a HOWL from rind to shine.
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Not so simple (at least for me)!
Rind Mind Mine Dine Done Dote Rote Wrote Write White Whine Shine
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3 comments:
Not so simple (at least for me)!
Rind
Mind
Mine
Dine
Done
Dote
Rote
Wrote
Write
White
Whine
Shine
So far, so good. There's at least a five-word HOWL going from Rind to Shine.
- pb
My second comment didn't post, for some reason. I found a simpler one:
Rind
Wind
Wine
Whine
Shine
(Do you count this as length 5, because there are five entries, or length 4, because there are 4 changes?)
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