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 [i]Word Ladders[/i in less moves.

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

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




= 1. pane burr [4]
2. whew suer [4]
= 3. dead duck [5]
= 4. true blue [5]
= 5. black sheep [7]
= 6. acid test [9]

6. acid - aced - aped - sped - seed - teed - teet - test

5. black - slack - shack - sheck - sheek - sheep

1. pane, pare, pure, purr, burr

Michele & OldBroad ... you beat the house on your solves

Well done manXman

4. true - grue - glue - blue

3. dead - bead - beak - beck - buck - duck

well done Michele ... too bad you can't beat the house in Vegas ... you'd be rich!!

good solve OldBroad

2. whew - shew - sher - suer

Most excellent OldBroad ... you beat the house!