A bit over a year ago, I introduced Ladderet to this group - my novel variant of the standard Word Ladder puzzle. The puzzle is now on Twitter and Facebook. It’s entirely free. I publish one puzzle every weekday. I’ve clocked up ten weeks now.

Wordle was the stimulus for this venture. Ladderet also uses 5-letter words and it is meant to be solved in a similar amount of time.

On Twitter, I tweet the puzzle under the username @PuzzleSmith.
On Facebook, I have a page for the puzzle. Search for ‘LadderetPuzzle’ to find it.

Ladderet is different from a standard word ladder in three respects:
1. The words are 5 letters long.
2. There are just two intermediate rungs on the ladder.
3. On each step, EXACTLY 2 letters must be changed.

An example puzzle:
RACKS
* * * * *
* * * * *
BRAIN

Solution (there is only ever one - using commonplace words):
RACKS
BASKS
BASIN
BRAIN

Here is puzzle #45:
TWIST
* * * * *
* * * * *
WATCH

The solution is on Twitter and Facebook.

(ONE --> TWO)

1-letter change: one owe .......... ???

2-letter change one toe two
______________________

are 4-letter (word) versions too easy ?

(EASY --> HARD) easy - hazy - hard

eggs -> emus

(eggs --> BIRD) ( eggs (bigs?) bags (bard) ... )

eggs - bags - bids - bird

______________________

The original Doublet was called [Word Golf] by Nabokov.

i'd call this [Word-Hop] because advancing 2-at-a-time is like Hopping (with both feet) instead of walking

verb hops, hopping or hopped (intr) === to make a jump forwards or upwards, esp on one foot (intr)
(esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards in short jumps

For animals, we say they hop when they jump with two feet or all of their feet at one time. Think of how a bunny rabbit moves: The animal is hopping.

Can you hop on two feet? ------ A hop is a light and small jump, usually on the same place but not always. A hop is performed by leaping off the ground with the body totally in the air, defying gravity for a while, usually done with only one leg especially for humans. In animals such as rabbits or kangaroos, they can use both their feet to hop.

On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 6:53:23 AM UTC-7, Graham Smith wrote:
> A bit over a year ago, I introduced Ladderet to this group - my novel variant of the standard Word Ladder puzzle. The puzzle is now on Twitter and Facebook. It’s entirely free. I publish one puzzle every weekday. I’ve clocked up ten weeks now.
>
> Wordle was the stimulus for this venture. Ladderet also uses 5-letter words and it is meant to be solved in a similar amount of time.
>
> On Twitter, I tweet the puzzle under the username @PuzzleSmith.
> On Facebook, I have a page for the puzzle. Search for ‘LadderetPuzzle’ to find it.
>
> Ladderet is different from a standard word ladder in three respects:
> 1. The words are 5 letters long.
> 2. There are just two intermediate rungs on the ladder.
> 3. On each step, EXACTLY 2 letters must be changed.
>
> An example puzzle:
> RACKS
> * * * * *
> * * * * *
> BRAIN
>
> Solution (there is only ever one - using commonplace words):
> RACKS
> BASKS
> BASIN
> BRAIN
>
> Here is puzzle #45:
> TWIST
> * * * * *
> * * * * *
> WATCH
>
> The solution is on Twitter and Facebook.

henh...@gmail.com wrote:

> (ONE --> TWO)

> 1-letter change: one owe .......... ???

> 2-letter change one toe two
> ______________________

> are 4-letter (word) versions too easy ?

> (EASY --> HARD) easy - hazy - hard

> eggs -> emus

> (eggs --> BIRD) ( eggs (bigs?) bags (bard) ... )

> eggs - bags - bids - bird

> ______________________

> The original Doublet was called [Word Golf] by Nabokov.

> i'd call this [Word-Hop] because advancing 2-at-a-time is like
Hopping (with both feet) instead of walking

> verb hops, hopping or hopped (intr) === to make a jump
forwards or upwards, esp on one foot (intr)
> (esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards
in short jumps

> For animals, we say they hop when they jump with two feet or all of their
feet at one time. Think of how a bunny rabbit moves: The animal is
hopping.

> Can you hop on two feet? ------ A hop is a light and small jump,
usually on the same place but not always. A hop is performed by leaping off
the ground with the body totally in the air, defying gravity for a while,
usually done with only one leg especially for humans. In animals such as
rabbits or kangaroos, they can use both their feet to hop.

> On Friday, April 15, 2022 at 6:53:23 AM UTC-7, Graham Smith wrote:
>> A bit over a year ago, I introduced Ladderet to this group - my novel
variant of the standard Word Ladder puzzle. The puzzle is now on Twitter
and Facebook. It’s entirely free. I publish one puzzle every weekday. I’ve
clocked up ten weeks now.
>>
>> Wordle was the stimulus for this venture. Ladderet also uses 5-letter
words and it is meant to be solved in a similar amount of time.
>>
>> On Twitter, I tweet the puzzle under the username @PuzzleSmith.
>> On Facebook, I have a page for the puzzle. Search for ‘LadderetPuzzle’
to find it.
>>
>> Ladderet is different from a standard word ladder in three respects:
>> 1. The words are 5 letters long.
>> 2. There are just two intermediate rungs on the ladder.
>> 3. On each step, EXACTLY 2 letters must be changed.
>>
>> An example puzzle:
>> RACKS
>> * * * * *
>> * * * * *
>> BRAIN
>>
>> Solution (there is only ever one - using commonplace words):
>> RACKS
>> BASKS
>> BASIN
>> BRAIN
>>
>> Here is puzzle #45:
>> TWIST
>> * * * * *
>> * * * * *
>> WATCH
>>
>> The solution is on Twitter and Facebook.



nice.