You solve these Word Ladders by changing one letter in the first word to form a new word and then repeat the process until you spell the ending word. The number of letter-change moves it took me follows each clue

...can you do it in less?

...I'll bet some of you can do it in less moves

Example: To change Mice into Rats I made 4 moves...

mice -1-> mite -2-> mate -3-> mats -4-> rats



= 1. note --> nets [4]
= 2. tack --> thru [4]
3. honor --> colon [4]
= 4. foams --> plume [4]
= 5. gang --> nixe [5]
= 6. cars --> onus [5]
= 7. limp --> hops [6]
= 8. junk --> more [6]
= 9. grab --> rind [7]
= 10. reek --> camp [7]

9. grab, grad, goad, road, read, rend, rind

1. note, rote, rots, rets, nets

...or if you allow computer speak: note, nots, nets
in this case a "not" is a boolean operator and it could make sense (maybe a small stretch) to talk about multiple "nots".

8. JUNK jink mink mine mire MORE

4. foams, flams, flame, flume, plume

10. reek, peek, perk, park, cark, carp, camp

Well done gang ... to include some records ... I told you guys some would fall

5. gang, pang, pane, pine, nine, nixe

Right you are Michele .. well done

7. LIMP lamp lams laps lops HOPS

Woo Hoo Jema .. well done as another record bites the dust

6. cars, oars, oats, opts, opus, onus

Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

Well done Michele

2. tack, taco, taro, thro, thru

Most excellent Michele!

Well done

To finish this one off:

3. HONOR donor dolor color COLON

Right on Jema