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Change a Letter - 5 letter words

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Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:05 am
by Jeffers
Target: Argue

Hears>>> Gears

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:58 am
by Woodles
Target: Argue

Gears :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: ARGUE

New Target: Posit

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:50 am
by Jeffers
Target: Posit (very fancy....)

Argue>>> Rages

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:07 pm
by Woodles
A shortage of other related five letter words :)

Target: Posit

Rages :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Tears

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 6:45 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Posit

Tears>>> Tires

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:44 am
by Woodles
Target: Posit

Tires :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Spite

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2019 10:30 am
by Jeffers
Target: Posit

Spite>>> POSIT

New target: Truth

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:07 pm
by Woodles
Target: Truth

Posit :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Riots

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:58 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Truth

Riots>>> Trots

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:18 am
by Woodles
Target: Truth

Trots :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Trust

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:27 am
by Jeffers
Target: Truth

Trust>>> TRUTH

New target: Sperm ( totally random, I know...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 3:29 pm
by Woodles
Target: Sperm

Truth :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hurts
Jeffers wrote: ↑Wed Aug 21, 2019 4:27 am( totally random, I know...)
... I'm not going to ask :lol:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2019 9:06 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Sperm

Hurts>>> Strum

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:57 pm
by Woodles
Target: Sperm

Strum :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Serum

(The next "target" should be revealing :lol: )

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:10 am
by Jeffers
Woodles wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:57 pm
(The next "target" should be revealing :lol: )
:whistle: why is that? :)

Target: Sperm

Serum>>> SPERM

new target: Ovary (go on, then I'll play along...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:28 am
by Woodles
:clap:

Target: Ovary

Sperm :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Smear

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:43 am
by Jeffers
Target: Ovary

Smear>>> Roams

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:04 am
by Woodles
Target: Ovary

Roams :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Mayor

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 9:05 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Ovary

Mayor>>> OVARY

New target: Muses (just because....)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 10:04 am
by Woodles
Target: Muses

Ovary :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Moray

Not wanting to repeat myself :lol:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:43 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Muses

Moray>>> Marys (as in more than one Mary, tenuous, but the best I've got at the moment....)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:02 pm
by Woodles
Target: Muses

Marys :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Mares
Jeffers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:43 pm(as in more than one Mary, tenuous, but the best I've got at the moment....)
I can work with that :)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:33 am
by Jeffers
Target: Muses

Mares>>> Masse

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:18 am
by Woodles
Target: Muses

Masse :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: MUSES

New Target: Erato

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:29 am
by Jeffers
I see what you were thinking there.... nice one.

Target: Erato

Muses>>> Amuse

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:08 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:29 amI see what you were thinking there.... nice one.
Well it fitted and didn't have many letters in common so it made sense.

Target: Erato

Amuse :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Steam

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:52 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Erato

Steam>>> Mater

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:38 am
by Woodles
Target: Erato

Mater :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: ERATO

New Target: Chill

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 1:21 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Chill

Erato>>> Other

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 1:22 pm
by Woodles
Target: Chill

Other :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hotel

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:55 am
by Jeffers
Target: Chill

Hotel>>> Hello

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:58 pm
by Woodles
Target: Chill

Hello :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hillo

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 5:50 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Chill

Hillo>>> CHILL

New target: Warms

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:57 am
by Woodles
Target: Warms

Chill :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hills

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:37 am
by Jeffers
Target: Warms

Hills>>> Wills

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2019 10:41 am
by Woodles
Target: Warms

Wills :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Wails

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:59 am
by Jeffers
Target: Warms

Wails>>> Swami

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:04 am
by Woodles
Target: Warms

Swami :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: WARMS

New Target: Tepid

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:15 am
by Jeffers
Target: Tepid

Warms>>> Warps

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:25 am
by Woodles
Target: Tepid

Warps :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Parts

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:48 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Tepid

Parts>>> Strip

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2019 2:11 pm
by Woodles
Target: Tepid

Strip :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Tripe

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:47 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Tepid

Tripe>>> TEPID

New target: Blaze

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:11 am
by Woodles
That's a bit extreme :o (Nice introduction of a 'z' though :) )

Target: Blaze

Tepid :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Plied

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:32 am
by Jeffers
Nice contrast with tepid, I thought....

Target: Blaze

Plied>>> Paled

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:57 am
by Woodles
Target: Blaze

Paled :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Blade

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:45 am
by Jeffers
Target: Blaze

Blade>>> BLAZE

New Target: Union (just looking for a complete change...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 4:01 pm
by Woodles
Target: Union

Blaze :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Baize

Tricky! :o

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2019 11:52 pm
by Jeffers
Yes, what have I done!?!?

Target: Union

Baize>>> ? leave that with me, it's too late to think......

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:17 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Union

Baize>>> Azine

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:17 pm
by Woodles
Target: Union

Azine :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Inane

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2019 5:02 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Union

Inane>>> Anion

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:25 am
by Woodles
Target: Union

Anion :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: UNION

New Target: Peace

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:07 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Peace

Union>>> Anion (seems a shame to waste it...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2019 1:55 pm
by Woodles
Target: Peace

Anion :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Piano

Not fair, I don't get to use my words again :( :lol:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:22 am
by Jeffers
:lol:

Target: Peace

Piano>>> Paeon

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:04 pm
by Woodles
Target: Peace

Paeon :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Pecan

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:33 am
by Jeffers
Target: Peace

Pecan>>> PEACE

New target: Fight

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:43 am
by Woodles
Target: Fight

Peace :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Cheap

You chose that deliberately so I couldn't re-use "Pecan" :P

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:44 am
by Jeffers
Target: Fight

Cheap>>> Cheat

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 4:27 pm
by Woodles
Target: Fight

Cheat :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Ethic

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:29 am
by Jeffers
Target: Fight

Ethic>>> Eight

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:06 pm
by Woodles
Target: Fight

Eight :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: FIGHT

New Target: Brawl

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:17 am
by Jeffers
Target: Brawl

Fight>>> Wight

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:53 pm
by Woodles
Nope, can't find any direct way forward from that :o

Target: Brawl

Wight :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: White

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:46 am
by Jeffers
Ok....

Target: Brawl

White>>> Write (better? It's too late to think it out...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:20 am
by Woodles
Target: Brawl

Write :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Twirl
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:46 am(better? It's too late to think it out...)
Yes thanks, that's one of the routes I had mapped out :D

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:23 am
by Jeffers
Target: Brawl

Twirl>>> Trawl (I can see it now...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 12:08 pm
by Woodles
Target: Brawl

Trawl :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: BRAWL

New Target: Unite
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:23 am(I can see it now...)
It was a tricky one, I could only find two ways through it.

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:04 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Unite

Brawl>>> Brawn (hopefully OK,not particularly late, but drink has been taken...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:32 am
by Woodles
Target: Unite

Brawn :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Brain
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:04 pm(hopefully OK, not particularly late, but drink has been taken...)
Anything's OK Jeff, it's just a game, if we need to detour then we'll detour. Although if drink is involved .... :angry-banghead:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:11 am
by Jeffers
Target: Unite ( thinking (ish) with a coffee and rum...)

Brain>>> Brine

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:09 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 12:11 am( thinking (ish) with a coffee and rum...)
Seemed easy enough so far, not planned it out.

Target: Unite

Brine :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Inter

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:22 am
by Jeffers
Target: Unite

Inter>>> UNITE

New target: Scars

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:45 am
by Woodles
Target: Scars

Unite :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Inter

YES! I get to re-use a word :o (Probably messed up the solution though)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:53 am
by Jeffers
:lol:

Target: Scars

Inter>>> Train

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:19 am
by Woodles
Target: Scars

Train :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Rains

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:26 am
by Jeffers
Target: Scars

Rains>>> Scran

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:58 am
by Woodles
Target: Scars

Scran :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: SCARS

New Target: Timon :)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:39 am
by Jeffers
Target: Timon

Scars>>> Scart

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 10:31 am
by Woodles
Target: Timon

Scart :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Rotas

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:12 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Timon

Rotas>>> Riots

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:42 pm
by Woodles
Target: Timon

Riots :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Moist

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:43 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Timon

Moist>>> TIMON

New target: Hades ( I wasn't sure whether your Timon was from the Lion King or Shakespeare, so I went for the Greek connection)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:07 am
by Woodles
Target: Hades

Timon :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Moist (Twice! :D )
Jeffers wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:43 pm( I wasn't sure whether your Timon was from the Lion King or Shakespeare, so I went for the Greek connection)
You give me too much credit, I was thinking Lion King :lol:

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 1:59 am
by Jeffers
Target: Hades

Moist>> Items

Sorry, can't think of a witty comment about your double moist... it's late.

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:45 am
by Woodles
Target: Hades

Items :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Dimes

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 12:27 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Hades

Dimes>>> Dames

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:30 pm
by Woodles
Target: Hades

Dames :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: HADES

New Target: Lethe

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:12 pm
by Jeffers
More Greek, eh?

Target : Lethe

Hades>>> Death (appropriate, eh?)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:34 am
by Woodles
Target : Lethe

Death :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Lathe
Jeffers wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:12 pm(appropriate, eh?)
Very good :) Sadly I can't follow that :(

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 1:25 am
by Jeffers
Target: Lethe

Lathe>>> LETHE

New target: Chaos

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:17 am
by Woodles
Target: Chaos

Lethe :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Lathe

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:24 am
by Jeffers
Target: Chaos

Lathe>>> Loath

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:32 am
by Woodles
Target: Chaos

Loath :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Shoal

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:33 am
by Jeffers
Target: Chaos

Shoal>>> CHAOS

New target: Nymph

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 9:43 am
by Woodles
:clap: Oh very nice, this should be an interesting one :lol:

Target: Nymph

Chaos :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Nacho

I'm away for three weeks from today so plenty of time to figure this one out.

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:27 pm
by Jeffers
Have a good time. I might sit down with a piece of real paper and work out a route for it....

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:06 am
by Jeffers
I think I might have shot myself in the foot with this one....
Can't see a direct route past Nacho.
If you can I'm open to hints, or I'll pass my turn.

I tried working back from Nymph and still got stuck that way too, via a couple of different routes....

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:43 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:06 am I think I might have shot myself in the foot with this one....
Can't see a direct route past Nacho.
If you can I'm open to hints, or I'll pass my turn.

I tried working back from Nymph and still got stuck that way too, via a couple of different routes....
I can't find a direct route either, it breaks down when I run out of vowels :shock:
You could try diverting via the backend of a cow? :D
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