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Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:23 pm
by Woodles
Target: Zebra
Slack
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
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
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
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
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
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
)>>>ADAPT
New Target: Onion
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 1:03 pm
by Woodles
Target: Onion
Adapt
Adopt
hgblade wrote:Pacta (had to look that one up
)
It was almost the first language for some teachers at my school
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
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
Autos
hgblade wrote: 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
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
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
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?
Eventually I checked the online scrabble dictionary, so here it is!
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 11:37 am
by Woodles
Target: Onion
Noons
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?
Eventually I checked the online scrabble dictionary, so here it is!
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!
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
Ninja
hgblade wrote:Mmmm, this looks like it could be tricky!
Well you wanted more of a challenge
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
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
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
A classic case of 'pass the buck' then
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
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
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
CURRY
New Target: Favor (I know it's spelt 'wrong' but it wouldn't fit in otherwise
)
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
CURRY
New Target: Favor (I know it's spelt 'wrong' but it wouldn't fit in otherwise
)
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: And there was me planning on/anticipating 'Sauce'
I will admit to a brief daliance with 'Chips'
Target: Favor
Harry
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'
I had one of those last night!
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!
Just the one? I usually have a plateful
Target: Favor
Foray
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carts
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 1:57 pm
by hgblade
Target: Smart
Carts>>>SMART
New Target: Quick
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:14 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Quick
Smart > Scart
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:40 am
by hgblade
Target: Quick
Scart>>>Racks
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 8:33 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Quick
Racks > Rucks
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:46 am
by Woodles
Target: Quick
Rucks
Sculk
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:21 pm
by hgblade
Target: Quick
Sculk>>>Caulk
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:34 pm
by Woodles
Good, we're on the same wavelength
Target: Quick
Caulk
Quack
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 4:21 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Quick
Quack > QUICK !!! (hurrah
)
New Target: FLASH
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:00 pm
by hgblade
Woodles wrote:Good, we're on the same wavelength
Some thinking required!
Target: Flash
Quick>>>Buick
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 9:24 am
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Flash
Buick > Brick
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:04 am
by Woodles
UBT - Timbo wrote:Quack > QUICK !!! (hurrah
) Well done Tim, good luck with this one
Target: Flash
Brick
Birch
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 12:23 pm
by hgblade
Target: Flash
Birch>>>Chair
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 1:30 pm
by Woodles
Target: Flash
Chair
Crash
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 2:01 pm
by hgblade
Target: Flash
Crash>>>Clash
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:19 pm
by Woodles
Target: Flash
Clash
FLASH
New Target: Drive
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:21 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Drive
Flash > Shelf
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 3:49 pm
by hgblade
Target: Drive
Shelf>>>Fresh
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:43 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Drive
Fresh > Shred
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 5:18 pm
by hgblade
Target: Drive
Shred>>>Rides
Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:06 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Target: Drive
Rides > Drive
New Target: Kyvat (in honour of the new F1 season - PS: Massa would have been too easy !!)