Drop a letter,add a letter
 

The rules of the game are simple. I'll start by giving you a word. You are allowed to drop only one letter or insert one letter anywhere without changing the order of the other letters. You are not allowed to drop or add the same letter.
After me, always follow the post preceding your reply.

Try keeping it going. You can go as many times as you want each with a post. However, if you can't come up with a word, you post in huge red letters NO CAN DO and you start a new word.

But, if you post "NO CAN DO" , someone can challenge you. If they're right, they need to post "GOTCHA" in huge blue letters, your new word is ignored and you can't post on the game again until someone else gets caught on a "NO CAN DO" We go with the challenger's word.
Challege or be challenged, that's the name of the game.

Make sure you refresh the page before you post so we don't have plays on the same word. Thanks.

Once a new fresh word has been started by someone and not challenged, that word is the new word.

Not sure this is going to work, but let's try it. I'll work out the bugs as we go.

Let's have an example to make sure everyone is playing the right way.
cat (post)
at(post)
rat(post)
rate(post)
crate(post)
crates(post)
rates(post)
rats(post)
brats(post)
so on...
NO MOVING LETTERS - add ONE letter or DROP one letter from anywhere in the word, each time making a word and each time you make a word, you post.


If you see that this example is getting too far from the end, can somebody please quote it in their post. Thanks!!

Here it goes.

The word is SEAT

:D :D :confused: :D :confused: :D :confused: :D :confused: :D :D

[SIZE=1]spleen edit: added example from later post to beginning of thread

SEATS

BTW, clarification on the rules. You can A) Drop a letter. or B) Add a Letter. Or is it both?

EATS

BEATS

BEAT

BET

BEST

Beast

Yeast

easy

East

I am still not sure if you are allowed to drop and add a letter at the same time

Least

LAST

Lost

post

pose

rose

nose

DOSE

Isn't this VERY similar to the morphing word game? Only exception is that you can move a letter in the morphing word game instead of just adding or removing.

dope

Pope

rope

roe

doe

hoe

hole

mole

mold

Yeast to easy in the earlier posts from paddyjoe to platypus dropped a y and t from east and added a y again to it. Illegal move. Add one letter OR delete 1 letter per post so we can see the change. Thanks. You all are doing well. Can we start adding more letters to make it more challenging?

MOLDY

Yep, just thought I would add a twist.:D

moldy --> moody

(I'm not sure if this follows the rules)

Gotta drop or add 1 letter to make a word, post and then post again with a drop or add to make another word. Make sense?

Let's start with MOLDY again.

oldly?

Is oldly a word?

Anyway, this works for both -> ODDLY.

<b>cdwonderful:</b> MOLDY to OLDLY doesn't work; you've removed (the M) <i>and</i> added (the 2nd L).
It's remove <i>OR</i> add a letter (also, it isn't CHANGE a letter either...). Or that's my understanding of it anyway!
So now that we're all confused, where are we again?
MOLDY --> MOULDY... Hope that's okay...

Mould

OK, so you can drop 1 OR add 1. Got it. Can you rearrange?

MOULDS

molds - american spelling

colds

folds

fold

old

told

You are not allowed to re-arrange the letters

I also thought you cant change a letter... only add or drop one...

old

bold

sold

I say that mxyzptlk and paddyjoe is in contravention of the - you cannot change a letter rule!

I am also sure you are not allowed to repeat a word previously
used

Where where we?

SOL

Well I am of course lost. I added b to old. What am I missing? not being a gamer myself, please explain what I am missing?

To continue on:

SOIL

oil

foil

foils

fils

no its not a misspell, it's in the dictionary :)

Let's have an example to make sure everyone is playing the right way.
cat (post)
at(post)
rat(post)
rate(post)
crate(post)
crates(post)
rates(post)
rats(post)
brats(post)
so on...
NO MOVING LETTERS - add ONE letter or DROP one letter from anywhere in the word, each time making a word and each time you make a word, you post.


If you see that this example is getting too far from the end, can somebody please quote it in their post. Thanks!!

fills

bills

bill

ill

mill

mil

milE

smile

smiled

NO CAN DO
Reason - The word preceding this post is "Smiled". The word preceding that is "Smile". I believe that there is no word that can be created by adding or removing a letter, no other word than smile. Because we are not allowed to return to the word preceding the word we are trying to change, this Round Is Over



NEW WORD:

TANK

tanks

tans

TAN

than

thank

hmm... I could say Tank... but we would just be looping, because that is what this round started with...

hmm...


HANK - its a name.

shank

Shank (as in lamb shanks)

Sank

sang

rsl12 - you cannot change a letter. You can only ADD, or DROP a letter. You changed the g to a k, and that is not a valid change.

Word is still:

SANK

stank

STAN --- Guys name, aka that eminem song.

stand

staind - (band name)

stained

strained

trained

rained

drained.........(tired eh)

Draine

Drainer

Derainer

are these real words??

detrainer

Nope DERAINER is in the dic not DETRAINER guess that leaves us at DERAINER again

Derainers

I cannot think of a single word that can be made, unless I go to the previous word of "Derainer". Therefore, I will start a new word.


HIPS

chips

CHIP

Chirp

Chirps

Impossible to continue!

New word is

NET

Neat

eat

bet