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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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      • 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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        PIEBALDconsult
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        I A I

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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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          • 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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              • A Ashley van Gerven

                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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                • 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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                  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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