You solve Word Ladders by changing one letter in the first word to form a new word and then change one letter in that new word to form another new word and keep repeating the process until you spell the final target word.

The number of letter-change moves it took me follows each Word Ladder pair.
...I'll bet some of you can build a [i]Word Ladder[/i in less moves.

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

miCe -1-> miTe -2-> mAte -3-> matS -4-> Rats



= 1. time - line [2]
= 2. goat - herd [5]
= 3. dead - line [5]
= 4. over - done [7]
= 5. funny - money [12]

1. time-lime-line
took the hard one

5. funny - bunny - bonny - boney - money

2. goat - moat - meat - heat - head - herd

Ach - forgot to include the starting word which puts me one move over yours.

Low hanging fruit is "always" a good choice manXman

Well done Michele, you knocked that one out of the park

Most excellent OldBroad ... you tied my mark at 5 >> goat - 1moat -2 meat - 3heat - 4head - 5herd

3. dead--lead--lend--land--lane--line

manXman

4. over ever eyer eyes dyes does dons done

Well done L4L