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Change a Letter - 5 letter words

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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

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:12 am
by Jeffers
Right, we'll try again....

Target: Nymph

Nacho>>> Hance (is that the one? I can get there after that...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 2:07 pm
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:12 amRight, we'll try again....
(is that the one? I can get there after that...)
I was thinking "Nache" but we'll give your completely different path a go :lol:

Target: Nymph

Hance :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hyena

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:12 pm
by Jeffers
No problem....let's see how it goes

Target: Nymph

Hyena>>> Honey

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:46 am
by Woodles
Target: Nymph

Honey :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hymen

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:15 am
by Jeffers
I was looking at Honey > Phony > Nymph, but yours works as well.

Target: Nymph

Hymen>>> NYMPH

New target: Flies

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:57 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Fri Nov 29, 2019 9:15 amI was looking at Honey > Phony > Nymph, but yours works as well.
I was looking at Hyena -> Mynah -> Nymph but obviously you wanted to pick the next word :lol:

Target: Flies

Nymph :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Hymen (as I only found three words back from "Nymph" and it's the only one that leads towards "Flies")

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 4:17 am
by Jeffers
Target: Flies

Hymen>>> Hemin

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:44 am
by Woodles
Had to look that one up, nice :clap:

Target: Flies

Hemin :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Mines

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:14 pm
by Jeffers
Woodles wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:44 am Had to look that one up, nice :clap:

So did I, just to check if it was a real word... :oops:

Target: Flies

Hemin :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Mines
Target: Flies

Mines>>> Fines

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:45 pm
by Woodles
:lol:

Target: Flies

Fines :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: FLIES

New Target: Santa (It's getting to that time of year again :D )

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:18 pm
by Jeffers
Well, I suppose at least it's gotten to December....

Target: Santa

Flies>>> Lines

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:26 am
by Woodles
Target: Santa

Lines :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Slain

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:27 pm
by Jeffers
target: Santa

Slain>>> Stain

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:59 am
by Woodles
Target: Santa

Stain :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: SANTA

New Target: Claus (Sorry, lack of sleep is leading to obvious and unimaginative targets :( )

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:45 am
by Jeffers
I'll forgive you...this time. Mind you, it shouldn't take long with three letters to change.

Target: Claus

Santa>>> Aunts

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 10:29 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:45 amI'll forgive you...this time. Mind you, it shouldn't take long with three letters to change.
I've had more sleep, I'll try and make it SIX letters to change next time :D

Target: Claus

Aunts :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Latus

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 1:15 am
by Jeffers
Target: Claus

Latus>>> CLAUS

New target: Diary (just to change all. And I had to look up Latus, seems a bit suspect...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:28 am
by Woodles
Target: Diary

Claus :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Scald

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:54 am
by Jeffers
And I've just noticed that I didn't change all the letters... oh well.

Target: Diary

Scald>>> Dials

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:02 pm
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 11:54 amAnd I've just noticed that I didn't change all the letters... oh well.
That's alright, it just means you'll get another chance this time :)

Target: Diary

Dials :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Raids

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:33 am
by Jeffers
Target: Diary

Raids>>> DIARY

New target: Books (counts letters on fingers....yep, that's all five!)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 2:51 pm
by Woodles
Target: Books

Diary :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Raids

Yep, looks like five to me too.

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:21 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Books

Raids>>> Roads

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 10:39 am
by Woodles
Target: Books

Roads :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Doors

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2019 2:07 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Books

Doors>>> Rooks

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2019 11:31 am
by Woodles
Target: Books

Rooks :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: BOOKS

New Target: Novel

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 1:57 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Novel

Books>>> Looks

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:23 am
by Woodles
Target: Novel

Looks :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Loose

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:39 am
by Jeffers
Target: Novel

Loose>>> Loves

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:57 am
by Woodles
Target: Novel

Loves :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: NOVEL

New Target: Drama

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:19 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Drama

Novel>>> Lover

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:02 am
by Woodles
Target: Drama

Lover :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Older

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:35 am
by Jeffers
Target: Drama

Older>>> Alder

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 11:13 am
by Woodles
Target: Drama

Alder :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Armed

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 11:47 am
by Jeffers
Target: Drama

Armed>>> DRAMA

New target: Echos

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2019 2:30 pm
by Woodles
Target: Echos

Drama :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Armed

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:31 am
by Jeffers
Target: Echos

Armed>>> Heard

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2019 11:01 am
by Woodles
Target: Echos

Heard :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Share

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 12:38 am
by Jeffers
Target: Echos

Share>>> Shore

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:17 am
by Woodles
Target: Echos

Shore :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: ECHOS

New Target: Reply

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:15 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Reply

Echos>>> Chops

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:21 pm
by Woodles
Target: Reply

Chops :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Copes

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:03 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Reply

Copes>>> Spore

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 2:31 pm
by Woodles
[Target: Reply

Spore :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Ropey

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 11:43 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Reply

Ropey>>> REPLY

New Target: Known

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:40 am
by Woodles
That's a good one!

Target: Known

Reply :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Prole

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 12:20 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Known

Prole>>> Prone

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 2:15 pm
by Woodles
Target: Known

Prone :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Owner

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:45 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Known

Owner>>> Woken

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:55 am
by Woodles
Target: Known

Woken :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: KNOWN

New Target: Vague

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:52 am
by Jeffers
Nice... should be interesting.

Target: Vague

Known>>> Woken (why waste a good word?)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:22 am
by Woodles
Target: Vague

Woken :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Oaken
Jeffers wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:52 amwhy waste a good word?
I'm all for recycling :)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:29 am
by Jeffers
Target: Vague

Oaken>>> Knave

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:38 am
by Woodles
Target: Vague

Knave :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Vegan

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:12 am
by Jeffers
Target: Vague

Vegan>>> VAGUE (I must be suffering from brain fade this morning, it took me ages to work out that there was only one letter left to change)

New target: Windy (like the weather here currently)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:49 am
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:12 am(I must be suffering from brain fade this morning, it took me ages to work out that there was only one letter left to change)
Well I try to make things easy .... :lol:

Target: Windy

Vague :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Vegan

Sticking to the recycling principle ...

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:58 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Windy

Vegan>>> Given

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:00 pm
by Woodles
Target: Windy

Given :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Deign

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:42 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Windy

Deign>>> Dined

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:21 am
by Woodles
Target: Windy

Dined :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Wined

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:16 am
by Jeffers
Target: Windy

Wined>>> WINDY

New target: Horse (no particular reason,just wanted a change from weather...)

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:46 am
by Woodles
Target: Horse

Windy :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Winds

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:29 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Horse

Winds>>> Rinds

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:48 am
by Woodles
Target: Horse

Rinds :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Rends

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:03 am
by Jeffers
Target: Horse

Rends>>> Snore

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:40 pm
by Woodles
Target: Horse

Snore :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: HORSE

New Target: Wigan (if we're going for completely unrelated words :) )

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:15 pm
by Jeffers
Oh, I don't know, I suppose there must be horses somewhere in Wigan....

Target: Wigan

Horse>>> Worse

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:49 pm
by Woodles
Jeffers wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:15 pmOh, I don't know, I suppose there must be horses somewhere in Wigan....
But the number is reducing all the time :lol: - https://www.preloved.co.uk/classifieds/ ... sale/wigan

Target: Wigan

Worse :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Sworn

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:08 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Wigan

Sworn>>> Grown

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 10:05 am
by Woodles
Target: Wigan

Grown :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: Wagon

Re: Change a Letter - 5 letter words

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:42 pm
by Jeffers
Target: Wigan

Wagon>>> WIGAN

New target: Mouth
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