Word Ladders

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 is in brackets...can you do it in less?

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

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

= 1. hot dog [2]
= 2. far out [3]
= 3. ball park [3]
= 4. pool side [6]
= 5. play date [7]
= 6. flat rate [7]

1. hot dot dog

2. far, oar, our, out

Most excellent start!

3. ball, balk, bark, park

3. ball, balk, bark, park

4. pool side [6]

POOL poll pole pone pine sine SIDE [6]

Excellent solutions everyone

6. FLAT->RATE

flat, fiat, fist, fast, [blip], fare, fate, rate

That's a gasser! It censored my [blip]!

5. Play Date

play plat peat pent pant pane dane date

or if you don't like dane as a proper name

play plat peat pent pant pane pate date


Thanks soot! I find it much harder to create puzzles than to solve them. I appreciate you making the effort to set these up for us.

Cue .. grin .. I've had similar encounters

Thanks Bob .. I enjoy both and never have enough time to do all that I want to do

Excellent solutions!