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Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:41 am
by hgblade
Hi all

Following on from the original 'Change a Letter' thread this is the start of the 'deluxe' version, where the target word will be 5 letters instead of 4. As in the 'standard' version - change 1 letter per post, forming a new word, with the objective of reaching a specified target word. Whoever reaches the target word then specifies the new target.

As this version will likely be harder at times to reach the target there is one additional rule to limit the difficulty - any target word can never contain more than one, if any, of "Z", "X", "Q" or "J".

Here we go:

Start word: START

Target: BEGIN

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:31 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: BEGIN

START > TREAT

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:08 am
by hgblade
Hi Tim

Good to see you start this off - Mark and I feared we might be just doing this ourselves!

Target: Begin

Treat>>>Great

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:50 pm
by Woodles
hgblade wrote:Hi Tim

Good to see you start this off - Mark and I feared we might be just doing this ourselves!
Damned interlopers! :evil: :lol:

Target: Begin

Great :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Barge

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:56 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:
hgblade wrote:Hi Tim

Good to see you start this off - Mark and I feared we might be just doing this ourselves!
Damned interlopers! :evil: :lol:
:lol: :lol:

Target: Begin

Barge>>>Began

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:03 pm
by Woodles
Target: Begin

Began :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: BEGIN

New Target: First

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:45 pm
by hgblade
Target: First

Begin>>>Tinge

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:06 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Hi Tim

Good to see you start this off - Mark and I feared we might be just doing this ourselves!
Hi

No worries !! I thought the 4 word letter was a bit too easy, so the 5 letter version might be more "taxing" on the brain cell (singular !!) ;-)


Target: First

TINGE > GIANT

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:53 pm
by hgblade
UBT - Timbo wrote:
Hi Tim

Good to see you start this off - Mark and I feared we might be just doing this ourselves!
Hi

No worries !! I thought the 4 word letter was a bit too easy, so the 5 letter version might be more "taxing" on the brain cell (singular !!) ;-)

:-D
Definitely more taxing. I'm waiting for Mark to get out his dictionary of weird Scrabble words!! :shock:

Target: First

GIANT>>>Sting

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:13 pm
by Woodles
Target: First

Sting :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Grits
hgblade wrote: Definitely more taxing. I'm waiting for Mark to get out his dictionary of weird Scrabble words!! :shock:
Not needed to yet but it's early days :D

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:39 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: First

Grits > First

New target: CLOCK

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:57 am
by hgblade
Target: Clock

First>>>Forts

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 2:28 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Clock

Forts > Strop

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 3:03 pm
by hgblade
Target: Clock

Strop>>>Crops

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 10:43 pm
by Woodles
Target: Clock

Crops :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Clops

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 10:22 am
by hgblade
Target: Clock

Clops>>>Locks

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:02 am
by UBT - Timbo
Oh come on guys this is too easy !!

Target: Clock

Locks > Clock

New target: Zebra

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:59 pm
by Woodles
Target: Zebra

Clock :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Block

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 6:05 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Zebra

Block > Locks

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:10 pm
by hgblade
Target: Zebra

Locks>>>Slack

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:23 pm
by Woodles
Target: Zebra

Slack :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Laces

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:07 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Zebra

Laces > Bales

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:15 pm
by Woodles
Target: Zebra

Bales :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Bears

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:40 am
by hgblade
Target: Zebra

Bears>>>ZEBRA

New Target: Finch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:14 am
by Woodles
Target: Finch

Zebra :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Brace

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:42 am
by hgblade
Target: Finch

Brace>>>Reach

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:45 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Finch

Reach > Chair

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:48 am
by hgblade
Target: Finch

Chair>>>China

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:57 am
by Woodles
Target: Finch

China :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: FINCH

New Target: Adapt

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:32 am
by hgblade
Target: Adapt

Finch>>>Pinch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:42 am
by Woodles
Target: Adapt

Pinch :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Pitch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:00 am
by hgblade
Target: Adapt

Pitch>>>Patch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:41 am
by Woodles
Target: Adapt

Patch :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Pacta

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:52 am
by hgblade
Target: Adapt

Pacta (had to look that one up :-D )>>>ADAPT

New Target: Onion

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:03 pm
by Woodles
Target: Onion

Adapt :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Adopt
hgblade wrote:Pacta (had to look that one up :-D )
It was almost the first language for some teachers at my school :lol:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:30 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:It was almost the first language for some teachers at my school :lol:
:lol: We had a Welsh English teacher - he might as well have been from Eastern Europe!!

Target: Onion

Adopt>>>Toads

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:52 pm
by Woodles
Target: Onion

Toads :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Autos
hgblade wrote::lol: We had a Welsh English teacher - he might as well have been from Eastern Europe!!
We had a Malaysian Maths teacher, she spoke better English than half the class :D

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 5:48 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:We had a Malaysian Maths teacher, she spoke better English than half the class :D
:lol:

Target: Onion

Autos>>>Snout

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 6:01 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Onion

Snout > Towns

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:46 am
by Woodles
Target: Onion

Towns :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Swoon

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 10:21 am
by hgblade
Target: Onion

Swoon>>>Noons

I thought about that for a while - I know Noon is a noun, but when do you ever hear a plural of it? :roll: Eventually I checked the online scrabble dictionary, so here it is! 8)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:37 am
by Woodles
Target: Onion

Noons :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: ONION

New Target: Bhaji
hgblade wrote:I thought about that for a while - I know Noon is a noun, but when do you ever hear a plural of it? :roll: Eventually I checked the online scrabble dictionary, so here it is! 8)
That's the way I was going :)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:59 am
by hgblade
Target: Bhaji

Onion>>>Union

Mmmm, this looks like it could be tricky! :shock:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:29 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Bhaji

Union > Anion

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:43 pm
by Woodles
Target: Bhaji

Anion :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Ninja
hgblade wrote:Mmmm, this looks like it could be tricky! :shock:
Well you wanted more of a challenge :D

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:56 pm
by hgblade
Target: Bhaji

Ninja>>>Janis

a: I'm assuming we're allowing proper nouns
b: I wonder if we have different ideas about this one! :)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:01 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Bhaji

Janis > Stain

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:12 pm
by hgblade
Target: Bhaji

Stain>>>Saith

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:44 pm
by Woodles
Target: Bhaji

Saith :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Sahib
hgblade wrote:a: I'm assuming we're allowing proper nouns
b: I wonder if we have different ideas about this one! :)
a) I have no problems with them
b) Actually I didn't have anywhere to go after ninja, I just couldn't resist using it :D

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 3:51 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:a) I have no problems with them
b) Actually I didn't have anywhere to go after ninja, I just couldn't resist using it :D
:-D A classic case of 'pass the buck' then :lol:

Target: Bhaji

Sahib>>>BHAJI

New Target: Curry

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 5:16 pm
by UBT - Timbo
New Target: Curry

Bhaji > Habit

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:56 pm
by hgblade
Target: Curry

Habit>>>Birth

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:06 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Curry

Birth > Bitch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 8:33 pm
by Woodles
Target: Curry

Bitch :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Birch

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:06 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Curry

Birch > Chirp

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 7:40 am
by Woodles
Target: Curry

Chirp :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Chirr

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:14 am
by hgblade
Target: Curry

Chirr>>>Churr

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 9:58 am
by Woodles
Target: Curry

Churr :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: CURRY

New Target: Favor (I know it's spelt 'wrong' but it wouldn't fit in otherwise :D)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:01 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Favor

Curry > Hurry

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:02 am
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:Target: Curry

Churr :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: CURRY

New Target: Favor (I know it's spelt 'wrong' but it wouldn't fit in otherwise :D)
:lol: :lol: And there was me planning on/anticipating 'Sauce'

Target: Favor

Hurry>>>Harry

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:14 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Favor

Harry > Hairy

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 10:48 am
by hgblade
Target: Favor

Hairy>>>Fairy

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:38 am
by Woodles
hgblade wrote: :lol: :lol: And there was me planning on/anticipating 'Sauce'
I will admit to a brief daliance with 'Chips' :D

Target: Favor

Harry :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Roary

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 12:54 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote: I will admit to a brief daliance with 'Chips' :D
I had one of those last night! :-D

Target: Favor

Roary>>>Foray

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:02 pm
by Woodles
hgblade wrote:I had one of those last night! :-D
Just the one? I usually have a plateful :lol:

Target: Favor

Foray :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: FAVOR

New Target: Prefer

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:15 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Hi both

What happened after "Hairy>>>Fairy" ??

Someone didn't refresh the page methinks !!

So, do we just carry on or go back ?

regards
Tim

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:17 pm
by Woodles
UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi both

What happened after "Hairy>>>Fairy" ??

Someone didn't refresh the page methinks !!

So, do we just carry on or go back ?

regards
Tim
:oops: :oops:
Sorry Tim, that'll be me, apologies.

Refreshing the page wouldn't have helped. It happened when I clicked on the notification for Keiths update, took a long time to reply and didn't notice it was the bottom of the page and more posts had been added on the next page.

It's happened before on the old, four letter thread and we just carry on.

Regards,

Mark

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:45 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Woodles wrote: :oops: :oops:
Sorry Tim, that'll be me, apologies.

Refreshing the page wouldn't have helped. It happened when I clicked on the notification for Keiths update, took a long time to reply and didn't notice it was the bottom of the page and more posts had been added on the next page.

It's happened before on the old, four letter thread and we just carry on.

Regards,

Mark
Hi Mark

OK - No worries. I guess it doesn't help, that sometimes the forum is a bit slow to respond in terms of logging on and loading pages. it's not that it is a big database, but it is held on a different server to the website and hence I guess that once in a while there's too much traffic between the webhosting server and the (shared) database server :-(

Maybe one day, I'll be able to afford to have them on the same IP address which should make it faster.

regards
Tim

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 4:46 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Prefer

Target has SIX letters in it :-(

regards
Tim

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:34 pm
by Woodles
UBT - Timbo wrote:Target: Prefer

Target has SIX letters in it :-(

regards
Tim
Well I was on a roll today! :(

New Target: Grace

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:42 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Grace

Favor > Savor

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:04 am
by hgblade
Target: Grace

Savor>>>Argos

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:40 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Grace

Argos > Cargo

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 3:07 pm
by hgblade
Target: Grace

Cargo>>>GRACE

New Target: Style

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:43 pm
by UBT - Timbo
New Target: Style

Grace > Grate

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:49 pm
by hgblade
Target: Style

Grate>>>Alter

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 8:47 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Style

Alter > Layer

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 2:03 am
by hgblade
Target: Style

Layer>>>Lyres

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:32 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Style

Lyres > Tyres

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 6:49 pm
by hgblade
Target: Style

Tyres>>>STYLE

New Target: Habit

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 12:02 am
by UBT - Timbo
New Target: Habit

Style > Least

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:05 am
by hgblade
Target: Habit

Least>>>Beast

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 11:12 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Habit

Beast > Stabs

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 2:01 pm
by hgblade
Target: Habit

Stabs>>>Baits

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 4:53 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Habit

Baits > Sitar

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:49 am
by Woodles
Target: Habit

Sitar :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Baits

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:58 am
by hgblade
Target: Habit

Baits>>>HABIT

New Target: Dress

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:10 am
by Woodles
Target: Dress

Habit :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Bathe

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:26 pm
by hgblade
Target: Dress

Bathe>>>Heart

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:15 am
by Woodles
Target: Dress

Heart :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Heard

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:13 am
by hgblade
Target: Dress

Heard>>>Herds

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:50 am
by Woodles
Target: Dress

Herds :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: DRESS

New Target: Fancy

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:57 pm
by hgblade
Target: Fancy

Dress>>>Cress

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:34 pm
by Woodles
Target: Fancy

Cress :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Scars

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:31 pm
by hgblade
Target: Fancy

Scars>>>Scans

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:33 pm
by Woodles
Target: Fancy

Scans :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Async

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 6:05 pm
by hgblade
Target: Fancy

Async>>>FANCY

New Target: Smart

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:17 am
by Woodles
Target: Smart

Fancy :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Franc

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:25 am
by hgblade
Target: Smart

Franc>>>Craft

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:51 am
by Woodles
Target: Smart

Craft :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Carts