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  • J Josh Smith

    Here's a Friday game. Take a word and keep altering one letter at a time, forming other words, until all of the letters in the original word are gone. Once you've reached that point, do the opposite process until you're arrived back to the original word. None of the words in the list can appear more than once. The objective is to have the shortest list possible. Here's an example:

    JOSH
    GOSH
    GUSH
    GUST
    BUST
    BUNT *
    BUTT
    MUTT
    MUST
    MUSH
    MOSH
    JOSH

    Note: I put an asterisk next to the word at which the process is reversed (all the letters are different than the original word). Have fun!

    :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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    szukuro
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    LACI (Short form of Laszlo = Leslie) LACK LOCK LOOK BOOK * BOCK[^] BACK BACI[^] LACI

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      Just for you, i tossed in another questionable one... ;P

      ----

      i hope you are feeling sleepy for people not calling you by the same.

      --BarnaKol on abusive words

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      Josh Smith
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      Shog9 wrote:

      Just for you, i tossed in another questionable one...

      Why thank you! You shouldn't have... :-O

      :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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        LACI (Short form of Laszlo = Leslie) LACK LOCK LOOK BOOK * BOCK[^] BACK BACI[^] LACI

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        Josh Smith
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        Very nice, szukuro!! That's as short as the list can be for a 4 letter word! :cool:

        :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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        • J Josh Smith

          Here's a Friday game. Take a word and keep altering one letter at a time, forming other words, until all of the letters in the original word are gone. Once you've reached that point, do the opposite process until you're arrived back to the original word. None of the words in the list can appear more than once. The objective is to have the shortest list possible. Here's an example:

          JOSH
          GOSH
          GUSH
          GUST
          BUST
          BUNT *
          BUTT
          MUTT
          MUST
          MUSH
          MOSH
          JOSH

          Note: I put an asterisk next to the word at which the process is reversed (all the letters are different than the original word). Have fun!

          :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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          Michael Bergman
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          BUN BIN SIN SIT * BIT BUT BUN wow, that was hard.:-D

          m.bergman

          -- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

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          • J Josh Smith

            Here's a Friday game. Take a word and keep altering one letter at a time, forming other words, until all of the letters in the original word are gone. Once you've reached that point, do the opposite process until you're arrived back to the original word. None of the words in the list can appear more than once. The objective is to have the shortest list possible. Here's an example:

            JOSH
            GOSH
            GUSH
            GUST
            BUST
            BUNT *
            BUTT
            MUTT
            MUST
            MUSH
            MOSH
            JOSH

            Note: I put an asterisk next to the word at which the process is reversed (all the letters are different than the original word). Have fun!

            :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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            Anton Afanasyev
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            How about my full name? eh? EH? thought so. I simply cannot be bothered to do so;)


            :badger:

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            • A Anton Afanasyev

              How about my full name? eh? EH? thought so. I simply cannot be bothered to do so;)


              :badger:

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              Josh Smith
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              Anton Afanasyev wrote:

              How about my full name? eh? EH?

              I'll do it if you officialy change your legal name to: The Programmer Formerly Known As Anton Afanasyev thought so.

              :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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              • J Josh Smith

                Here's a Friday game. Take a word and keep altering one letter at a time, forming other words, until all of the letters in the original word are gone. Once you've reached that point, do the opposite process until you're arrived back to the original word. None of the words in the list can appear more than once. The objective is to have the shortest list possible. Here's an example:

                JOSH
                GOSH
                GUSH
                GUST
                BUST
                BUNT *
                BUTT
                MUTT
                MUST
                MUSH
                MOSH
                JOSH

                Note: I put an asterisk next to the word at which the process is reversed (all the letters are different than the original word). Have fun!

                :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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                JWood
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                Can I write a perl script to do it for me?


                Ron Paul for President of the United States of America

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                • J Josh Smith

                  Anton Afanasyev wrote:

                  How about my full name? eh? EH?

                  I'll do it if you officialy change your legal name to: The Programmer Formerly Known As Anton Afanasyev thought so.

                  :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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                  Anton Afanasyev
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                  Its a hard bargain, you know..:-D


                  :badger:

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                  • S szukuro

                    LACI (Short form of Laszlo = Leslie) LACK LOCK LOOK BOOK * BOCK[^] BACK BACI[^] LACI

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                    PIEBALDconsult
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                    Whoo hoo! Bock! A buncha years ago there was similar puzzle in the newspaper or something, change some word to another in like six steps, I did it in four by using Bock!

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                    • M Michael Bergman

                      BUN BIN SIN SIT * BIT BUT BUN wow, that was hard.:-D

                      m.bergman

                      -- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.

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                      I A I

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                      • J JWood

                        Can I write a perl script to do it for me?


                        Ron Paul for President of the United States of America

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                        PIEBALDconsult
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                        No, Perl isn't smart enough.

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                        • J Josh Smith

                          Here's a Friday game. Take a word and keep altering one letter at a time, forming other words, until all of the letters in the original word are gone. Once you've reached that point, do the opposite process until you're arrived back to the original word. None of the words in the list can appear more than once. The objective is to have the shortest list possible. Here's an example:

                          JOSH
                          GOSH
                          GUSH
                          GUST
                          BUST
                          BUNT *
                          BUTT
                          MUTT
                          MUST
                          MUSH
                          MOSH
                          JOSH

                          Note: I put an asterisk next to the word at which the process is reversed (all the letters are different than the original word). Have fun!

                          :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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                          Ashley van Gerven
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                          THE TEE TEA SEA * PEA PEE SEE SHE THE OK, I picked an easy one... but "A > .. > A" was harder ;P. Are there any other 1-letter words apart from "A"?

                          "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                          CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                            THE TEE TEA SEA * PEA PEE SEE SHE THE OK, I picked an easy one... but "A > .. > A" was harder ;P. Are there any other 1-letter words apart from "A"?

                            "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                            CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                            Tomas Petricek
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                            like.. A I * A :) ?

                            Homepage: TomasP.net | Photo of the month: Calendar | C# and LINQ, F#, Phalanger: My Blog
                            Latest article: Phalanger, PHP for .NET: Introduction for .NET developers

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                              like.. A I * A :) ?

                              Homepage: TomasP.net | Photo of the month: Calendar | C# and LINQ, F#, Phalanger: My Blog
                              Latest article: Phalanger, PHP for .NET: Introduction for .NET developers

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                              Josh Smith
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                              Tomas Petricek wrote:

                              like.. A I * A

                              Hah! Simplicity at its best! :-D

                              :josh: My WPF Blog[^] FYI - Bob is a scarecrow who keeps Chuck Norris away from CodeProject.

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                              • T Tomas Petricek

                                like.. A I * A :) ?

                                Homepage: TomasP.net | Photo of the month: Calendar | C# and LINQ, F#, Phalanger: My Blog
                                Latest article: Phalanger, PHP for .NET: Introduction for .NET developers

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                                Ashley van Gerven
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                                DOH! :doh: Exactly! Can't believe I didn't think of that :-O

                                "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                                CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                                • A Ashley van Gerven

                                  DOH! :doh: Exactly! Can't believe I didn't think of that :-O

                                  "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza

                                  CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

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                                  Anton Afanasyev
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                                  yeah, gotta think about "I", aka yourself sometimes too ;)


                                  :badger:

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