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 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. seal bend [4]
= 2. lewd week [4]
= 3. life mama [5]
= 4. clan blow [5]
= 5. clod more [6]
= 6. dark oyes [6]
= 7. sway pies [7]
= 8. trig hemp [7]
= 9. spur babe [8]
= 10. claw logs [8]

1. seal - meal - mead - bead - bend

10. claw - clat - coat - boat - boas - bogs - logs

2. lewd lead leak weak week

3. Life, lime, lame, lama, mama

Bernie

9. spur - sour - soul - soil - sail - bail - ball - bale - babe

Everyone is spot on, and Michele and Bernie beat the house

7. sway - spay - spas - seas - sees - pees - pies

4. clan claw flaw flow blow

Michele and manXman ... you both beat the house with your solves

8. trig - trip - trap - wrap - weap - heap - hemp



btw, you missed oldbroad's answer for #9

Thanks Michele ... well done again ... too bad they don't have "Word Ladders" in Vegas ... you'd make a killing

OldBroad #9

5. clod - cood - mood - moon - morn -more

OldBroad ... what is a "cood?"

I was afraid you were going to ask that! I was first thinking of cood being a pigeon noise but looked it up and saw that my spelling was not right, however, this popped up so I went for it:


cood - Urban Dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=cood
a pompous, arrogant buffoon, prone to delusions of grandeur and compulsive lying. stop acting like such a Cood. by Spinis November 08, 2017.


EDIT: Would you prefer this one:

clod - plod - pood - mood - moon - morn - more

I will take both of your solutions OldBroad

6. dark - bark - bars - baes - byes - oyes

Michele ... beat the house again :wave;