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My tough take on Word Ladder

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by: Graham Smith - Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:51 UTC

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.

Subject	Author
My tough take on Word Ladder	Graham Smith