Math Is Fun Forum

I can't find haas anywhere, Bobby, except capitalized.

GANG
GANS
WANS
WARS
WARD
WORD
WOAD
ROAD
READ
DEAD

LOSE -> FIND -> KEEP

DOGS
LOGS
LOGE
LOKE
LIKE
LITE
LATE
LATS
CATS

CATS -> HATE -> DOGS!

How on earth did you do that?! :)

Btw, my calculator gives the same result.

Oh...I just noticed you did the same thing back in post #496. But I didn't think then about how you might have done it.

When John Franklin started this thread I thought it would get boring and would soon fizzle, but 2^9x13 posts later, with lots of very interesting contributions, and we're still going!

Btw, mathsyperson, nice going...and I particularly like that elegant defining touch!

You'll have to rub out mathsy's point from #3, gurth.

I agree with mathsyperson...keep 'em comin'.

Yes, solo's fine. Reminds me of Mastermind, too.

Hi ZHero,

LARS is ok...it's in SOWPODS and the Collins Official Scrabble Dictionary.

I can't find LANS anywhere, other than as the plural of the acronym for Local Area Network.

YOUR
YOUS
MOUS
MOTS
MATS
MATH
BATH
BATS
BAAS   
BRAS
BRAG
DRAG

BRRR -> VERY -> COLD

Hi Bobby,

Is "nees" in your last answer a word? I can't find it anywhere except as a proper noun (a person's name).

The O.E.D. says nees is an obsolete form of nese (nose) and niece.

LONG
LANG
DANG
DANS
DAYS
WAYS
WARS
WARK
WORK

HARD -> DAYS -> NITE

Hi ZHero,

If surnames were allowed all words we dreamt up would be valid, as somebody in this big wide world would be sure to have that name!

As well as being in the O.E.D., tige is in SOWPODS, which is a rearranged acronym for the combined Official Scrabble Words (British English) and Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (American English). I gave a link to SOWPODS 4-letter words in post #127.

In that post I also gave a link to the Scrabble word checker by Collins, whose dictionary is the current argument settler for that game. The Collins definition for tige is n trunk of an architectural column.

I also find this link handy (including its reverse dictionary feature!):
http://www.onelook.com/

There are many other sources too, of course, but these are my favourites so far.

They're all good, Bobby. I was just running with what you said:

Sometimes the solutions comprise several words I've never seen before, and I was just surmising that maybe one day most of the words in a solution might all be strange ones. Btw, I added "seemingly" to that post.

They certainly do! And top Scrabble experts generally know most, if not all words up to four letters long!!

FAME
FANE
FONE
FOND
HOND
HEND   
HEAD
HEAR
FEAR

BOBS -> TIGE -> TULP