Change 1 letter word game

[HollyS]

The object is to change one letter ONLY, and make a new word. You can drop a letter or add a letter, but only change one thing. You have to keep it going until no one can make another word. You CANNOT play off of your own word. NO PROPER NOUNS AND NO ACRONYMS ALLOWED! Each word played must be able to be verified in DICTIONARY.com.

When no one can make another word. That's the end of the game. The last successful person is the winner.

Example:
player 1-dark
player 2-dart
player 3-tart

Also, you can't repeat a word that was previously used. Ex: word words word wouldn't work. If you want to make sure that your word was not previously used you can use the "search this thread" button at the top of the game thread.

In an effort to clarify which plays were actually valid and which were not, we've been editing some of our posts. If you play a word and get beat to the punch or just use an incorrect word, you can edit your post and add a * directly before the word you played. This way the invalid play will NOT show up when someone searches the thread for a word.

Well, it starts with....

BRAIN

[CrayonQueen]

Oh sounds like fun..........


Rain

[twirlyjoy]

Train

:) :)

[Debra]

pain :gogo:

[Daniellesmama]

plain

wow - this is a challenge!

[Xaria]

slain *wub

[CrayonQueen]

slain *wub


why does it keep saying my message is too short??...........


Stain

[HollyS]

spain

have to add more like a smiley cuz the message posting has to be more than 5 chars I guess...

[CrayonQueen]

spain

have to add more like a smiley cuz the message posting has to be more than 5 chars I guess...

ohhh this took me a while.........

span

[twirlyjoy]

spin

*biggrin *biggrin

[CrayonQueen]

spin

*biggrin *biggrin

Spit:) :popcorn:

[Debra]

*spill *wink - my favorite thing to do~!

[Daniellesmama]

*still

oops!

[Leslie Emery]

*stilt *yes

[HollyS]

ooops, Deb, you changed two letters! So we are back to spit...

skit

FYI, the character minimum has been decreased to 4.....:)

[beany]

Skat :)


(German Card Game!!)

[Xaria]

slat

[CrayonQueen]

Spat

[Phoenix]

Span

[CrayonQueen]

Span

Spun

[Phoenix]

Stun

[Leslie Emery]

Stud

[CrayonQueen]

Stud


scud

[jburkhart]

ducks

[Phoenix]

suds

[danielleym]

ooh! can i just jump in? :) how about:

buds...

[Leslie Emery]

bids

[Xaria]

kids

[Leslie Emery]

kiss

[HollyS]

kits

[danielleym]

wits

[Debra]

bits

[Xaria]

bats

[CrayonQueen]

bats


Baits

[Daniellesmama]

waits!!!!!

[CrayonQueen]

waits!!!!!


Gaits

[HollyS]

grits

[Leslie Emery]

grips

[Phoenix]

trips

[danielleym]

rips

[Xaria]

rips

ripe

[Leslie Emery]

ripen

[HollyS]

riper

[twirlyjoy]

wiper

[Leslie Emery]

Wider

[CrayonQueen]

Wider

ride

[Daniellesmama]

Patty, you changed two letters. try "rider!"

[CrayonQueen]

Patty, you changed two letters. try "rider!"

actually, all I did was take out the "w", and rearrange the remaining 4......that does count right?

[Daniellesmama]

hmmm, that's a good question. I reread the rules and I'm not sure. I guess Holly will have to decide!

[HollyS]

Well, I didn't think about rearranging counting. I guess other sites do it so we'll let it work here.

So here goes mine:

rids (like rids himself of something)

[Leslie Emery]

grids

[Phoenix]

grits

[beany]

stir - lost the g and re arranged the rest!*biggrin

[CrayonQueen]

Strip

[Xaria]

strap

[CrayonQueen]

Trap

[Phoenix]

Tray

[CrayonQueen]

Rat:)

[Robbi1]

rat - tarp

[CrayonQueen]

harp

[Xaria]

harp sharp

[Robbi1]

sharp - parts

[CrayonQueen]

Darts

[Robbi1]

Darts - tarts

[Debra]

tarts-smarts

[twirlyjoy]

smarts - smart

[ckbymommy]

smart - start

[CrayonQueen]

Stark

[ckbymommy]

stork

[gundimom]

stork=>store

[ckbymommy]

store => s'more

[gundimom]

spore

[CrayonQueen]

spore

score

[ckbymommy]

score => scare

[steph]

scare - scars

[gundimom]

scare - scars

scarp

[ckbymommy]

scarp => sharp

[gundimom]

shark

[Bettina Groh]

spine:laugh:
Bettina Groh

[gundimom]

uuuuuh Bettina, I think that is changing more than one letter. :D so I think we are still on

shark

[Bettina Groh]

Thought I saw a "spin"... sorry

[gundimom]

lol, I think you weren't on the last page, but boy did you have me confused.:twitcy:

[ckbymommy]

uuuuuh Bettina, I think that is changing more than one letter. :D so I think we are still on

shark

shark => spark

[brandiwest]

stark

[gundimom]

stars

[Bettina Groh]

stalk? Bettina Groh:hello:

[brandiwest]

stalk? Bettina Groh:hello:

That is changing more than one letter.

So off of stars is - start

[Daniellesmama]

ok, so if we can rearrange the letters and only change one, I say

artist

[brandiwest]

I didn't know we could rearrange words!! But if so I guess you win. I can not think of one letter to change and make another word :dontknow: LOL

[gundimom]

artists

[brandiwest]

OK, I'm dropping a letter and rearranging.

Starts

[gundimom]

I added an e and rearranged

tasters

[brandiwest]

Masters

[gundimom]

rearranged and added a letter

steamers

[brandiwest]

streamers

[gundimom]

my dh helped me come up w/ this one, WTG honey!
Change the r to s, rearrange and get seamstress

He is good, isn't he?!!!! :D

[brandiwest]

LOL gundi!!! I am Totally Stumped!!! LOL Still thinking....there are too many s's to rearrange into something else!!

[gundimom]

So does everyone concede? Hey Holly, am I the winner, winner?! If so, yahoo for me!

[brandiwest]

NOT SO FAST Gundi!!! I just figured one out!!

seamstress. Drop the a and add a p and rearrange: sempstress

[gundimom]

Brandi, I didn't even know what that was, had to go look, I guess I have to start thinking about it again. lol

[gundimom]

ok, here is one, add a t, rearrange and get temptresses

[brandiwest]

gundi, you added an extra e at the end too. So can I drop two letters???

If so, I want to just use TEMPTRESS......and get rid of some of those awful s's!!

[gundimom]

lol, brandi, I was so confused when I was trying to type what I had done, I had to change it 5 times, and then I still messed up. Fine with me if you want to drop two, or we can declare you the winner if nobody else can think of one. I have had fun doing this so don't really want it to end, but I don't want to cheat either. I have to know how you came up with semptress, though. I have never heard that word in my life. Judges, oh judges, can brandi drop 2 letters so we can keep playing. LOL I will keep thinking in case we are back to sempstress.

[brandiwest]

LOL gundi!!! This game started getting REALLY hard once we started rearranging, adding, and dropping!! YIKES!! I hope we can keep on, this game is such a brain teaser!!

[gundimom]

OK brandi, I have one for sempstress that actually follows the rules, but I couldn't manange to get rid of an s, an now that I see it it is obvious as can be. Are you ready? Change the p to i, move the e and the s to the end of the word and you get

mistresses

Wahoo, wahoo, wahoo! *woot :gogo: :dancing: :bump: :laugh: :biggrin:

[brandiwest]

LOL....VERY obvious!!! Too obvious!!! Now off to get rid of an s hopefully!!! GOOD JOB on that word!!

[twirlyjoy]

wow!! How on earth did this get so complicated!! lol!! As far I can tell, you aren't allowed to rearranged the letters, are you?? Holly's first rules post says

"The object is to change one letter ONLY, and make a new word. You can drop a letter or add a letter, but only change one thing."

Or have I missed the post where it was changed!!!

[Bettina Groh]

This whole thing DISTRESSES me greatly....

Bettina Groh

[gundimom]

Good one Bettina!
Yeah we can get rid of an s

Distressed

[brandiwest]

LOL; DISTRESSES is PERFECT, because that is how this game is going!!!

Joy - I didn't think we could rearrange either but once it started there was no stopping it!! :eek1

[gundimom]

Brandi, we must have posted at the same time, did you see I got rid of an s for you?!

[brandiwest]

Brandi, we must have posted at the same time, did you see I got rid of an s for you?!


Yes I did!! Thanks!!!

But I'm having a heck of a time with that word!! LOL Are we still rearranging?? Or just changing one letter?? If we are just changing one letter the only word I can come up is MISTRESSED.

[gundimom]

I vote rearrange is ok, since we have been doing it and to me one change refers to the actual letters available. So is mistressed a word and is that your final answer?! :D

[brandiwest]

LOL Gundi; Yes it is a word, but let me do a better one!! I'll be right back after rearranging a bit!!

[Bettina Groh]

is mispressed a word?

[Bettina Groh]

forget about
the above.... MISTRESSES is my new one! Bettina Groh

[gundimom]

Sorry Bettina, mistresses has already been used, if you are not sure you can always type the word in where it says search this thread at the top of each page so you don't have to go back thru all of the pages. To see if any word is a legal word, you can go to www.dictionary.com and look it up. I checked for you and mispressed is not a word, so we are still on

DISTRESSED

[gundimom]

hey where did all of my word changing buddies go? Brandi, I know you are lurking around here somewhere. :D

[brandiwest]

OK, sorry I was out with a migraine and then I worked a 14 hour overnight shift last night and now I just got out of bed about an hour ago. So let me figure a word out!!! I'll be back!!!

[brandiwest]

OK Gundi.....I give.....I can make several words from MISTRESSED but DISTRESSED is just throwing me right now. So let's work off of:

MISTRESSED......that is my word for now. I can rearrange this one A LOT easier!!! LOL

[gundimom]

Sorry to hear about your migraine Brandi! I get those sometimes and they are the worst. Ok I will get thinking on this new one, I noticed you got rid of no s's :) !

[brandiwest]

LOL Gundi!! As soon as you rearrange I got TONS of ways to drop those s's!!! LOL Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

[gundimom]

OK, I am ready, I dropped the M, rearranged and came up with

DRESSIEST

[brandiwest]

OK Gundi ~ I didn't drop an S this time but I dropped the I and rearranged and came up with:

DESSERTS

[gundimom]

I got rid of an S *woot :gogo: :dancing: :proud:

DESERTS

[brandiwest]

NOW I am getting rid of another one!!! LOL


DESERT

[gundimom]

Change the D to A, rearrange and get

TEASER

[gundimom]

Brandi, did we scare everyone else off, why don't they want to play with us anymore? Really everyone come back, we will be nice!

[brandiwest]

LOL Gundi!!! I am feeling the same way!!! I think our 14 letter words were too much a a challenge!!! LOL I am going to bring us back down to 5 letters

Off of teaser.....drop the A rearrange and get

TREES

[Bettina Groh]

add a t , rearrange and become STREET

[brandiwest]

Drop a T rearrange and get STEER

[Bettina Groh]

drop a t and get Seer

[brandiwest]

Change the S to a D and get DEER

[gundimom]

Change the E to an H and get

HERD

[brandiwest]

Change H to an N and get NERD!! LOL

[gundimom]

Add a Y and get

NERDY

[brandiwest]

Gundi - the first thought that popped into my mind was PERDY!! LOL I'm sure this isn't a word though!!!

So drop the D and rearrange and you got YERN.

[Bettina Groh]

add an a and get yearn .... yern is obsolete

[brandiwest]

Yern is a word though, because I checked before I posted it!!

Drop the E in yearn and get YARN.

[gundimom]

Change Y to E and get

NEAR

[brandiwest]

Change the N to an R and get REAR.

Boy are these small words so much easier!!! LOL

[Bettina Groh]

change the n to p and get PEAR

[brandiwest]

Change the R to an S and get PEAS.

[gundimom]

Add an L

PLEAS

[Bettina Groh]

add an e PLEASE

[brandiwest]

Drop the P....LEASE

[Bettina Groh]

add a d LEASED

[gundimom]

add a P

PLEASED

Gosh I leave you guys alone for a few minutes and look how much you have changed my word! :D

[brandiwest]

Drop the S rearrange and get LEAPED.

[Bettina Groh]

changed the l to a r and get REAPED

[gundimom]

Change the A to E and get DEEPER

[Bettina Groh]

change the d to a p and get peeper

[gundimom]

LOL, that's what my dh tells our boys that their you know what is!

OK I am changing an e to p to get

PEPPER

[Bettina Groh]

add a d and rearrange PREPPED

[gundimom]

Add an E, rearrange and get

PEPPERED

Got to work today ladies so try not to have too much fun w/o me! :D

[brandiwest]

Drop an E rearrange and get PREPPED.

[Bettina Groh]

change the E to O PROPPED

[brandiwest]

Alright....I have the perfect scrapping word now!!! LOL

Change the P to a C and you have CROPPED!!*woot

[Bettina Groh]

change the d to an r Cropper

[brandiwest]

Drop the R and get COPPER.

[Bettina Groh]

change the C to H Hopper

[brandiwest]

Change the H to a T and get TOPPER.

[Bettina Groh]

add an S and get Stopper

[gundimom]

Add an S Stoppers

[Bettina Groh]

Change an s to a c and rearrange to PROSPECT

[brandiwest]

Add an S and get PROSPECTS.

[Bettina Groh]

add a U and get PROSPECTUS

[gundimom]

Good one Bettina! I will have to think on that one a bit.

[brandiwest]

Change the C to an R, rearrange and get SUPPORTERS.

[gundimom]

C'mon Brandi, come up with something I just keep thinking of "protect us" Don't think that will do it. :D

[gundimom]

LOL, apparently you did at the same time I posted, ok now I have to change gears.

[gundimom]

I need to go get breakfast, so I will just go easy and say supporter

[Bettina Groh]

can one just remove the S and become SUPPORTER ?

[Bettina Groh]

Change one P to a D and rearrange to PROTRUDES

[brandiwest]

Drop the E and rearrange and get: PURPORTS.

[Bettina Groh]

what happened to the D ?

[brandiwest]

Bettina - I did not have your post up...I must have been typing when you posted so I came up with a new one.

Drop an R rearrange and get: SPROUTED

[gundimom]

Drop the R and get SPOUTED

[brandiwest]

Drop the S and get POUTED

[Bettina Groh]

change the P to a T and get TOUTED

[gundimom]

Change the U to O and get TOOTED

[Bettina Groh]

change the T to a B and get BOOTED

[okekeca]

Hooted

[Bettina Groh]

change the D to an R ... HOOTER

[okekeca]

shooter

[brandiwest]

Change the H to an R and get: ROOSTER.

[okekeca]

drop s to get ROOTER

[gundimom]

Change the O to an R to get

TERROR

[okekeca]

Drop T and you get ERROR

[brandiwest]

Change an R to a P and get ROPER.

[okekeca]

Add a P and you have PROPER

[brandiwest]

Change the R to an L and you have PROPEL.

[okekeca]

change R to E and rearrange to get PEOPLE

[gundimom]

Change a P to D and get ELOPED

[brandiwest]

Drop the D.....ELOPE.

[Bettina Groh]

Drop an E and you get POLE

[gundimom]

Change E to W and get PLOW

[brandiwest]

Change the P to an F and get WOLF.

[Bettina Groh]

change the F to an s and get SLOW

[brandiwest]

Change W to a P and get SLOP

[gundimom]

change the L to R and get PROS

[Bettina Groh]

add a T and rearrange to PLOTS

[brandiwest]

Drop the P....LOTS

[Bettina Groh]

add an E PROSE

[Bettina Groh]

add an S SLOTS

[brandiwest]

Drop an S.......SLOT

[Bettina Groh]

change an S to an E TOLE

[brandiwest]

Change T to an M and get......MOLE

[Bettina Groh]

change the O to an I MILE

[okekeca]

Change E to L and get MILL

[Bettina Groh]

change the I to an A and get MALL

[gundimom]

L to T and get MALT

[jabilga]

T to E and get MALE

[okekeca]

M to S and you get SALE

[Bettina Groh]

S to P PALE

[okekeca]

Unscramble and get LEAP

[Bettina Groh]

unscramble to PEAL

[okekeca]

Remove L to get PEA

[Bettina Groh]

rearrange to APE

[okekeca]

Add a C and you have a CAPE

[Bettina Groh]

add an R and have CAPER

[TaraP]

change one letter to make CATER

[Bettina Groh]

add an R CRATER

[okekeca]

unscramble to TRACER

[Bettina Groh]

get rid of the T ...RACER

[okekeca]

Well lets get rid of the R too.....ACER

[gundimom]

Add an S ACRES

[Bettina Groh]

get rid of another R ACES

[gundimom]

change C for T

SEAT

[brandiwest]

Change S to an M.....MEAT

[Bettina Groh]

rearrange to TEAM

[gundimom]

Add an S

STEAM

[Bettina Groh]

add an L METALS

[brandiwest]

Drop an S.......METAL

[Bettina Groh]

change the M to P PETAL

[brandiwest]

LOL I was gonna make petal.......so PETALS.

[okekeca]

rearrange to PLATES

[gundimom]

Add an I to get

PILATES

[brandiwest]

Change L to an R and get PIRATES.

[Bettina Groh]

drop the I PRATES

[brandiwest]

Change P to a C and get....CRATES.

[Bettina Groh]

lose the C and get RATES

[gundimom]

Change the R to S and get

SATES

[Bettina Groh]

add a T and get STATES

[brandiwest]

Drop an S..........STATE

[Bettina Groh]

Drop a T SATE

[brandiwest]

Change S to an M............MATE

[lindajd]

Change M to an D............DATE

[Bettina Groh]

change the D to an N EATEN

[brandiwest]

Drop an E.......NEAT