Switch Lights

The lights are on

What's Happening

Post-Thanksgiving Recovery: Word Puzzles

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so you’re either at the mall hating your life, or hiding at home trying to recover from the food bomb you just dropped in your gut. Here’s our post holiday cure: relax with a glass of Eggnog (that’s right you can start drinking that again), and burn some calories with a word puzzle.

Are you familiar with words chains? It’s a game I made up (no, I didn’t) where you take a word and change one letter at a time to make other words. The goal is to see how many steps it takes to turn one word into another. For example, let’s take the arcade classic Pong and turn it into the modern FPS Halo.

Pong
Pony
Bony
Bond
Bend
Bead
Beat
Belt
Bell
Ball
Hall
Halo

There you go, Pong to Halo in eleven steps. Think you can do faster? Maybe you’d like a different challenge. Can you turn Pure into Blur? Or Tron into Doom? Or Klax into Call of Duty: Black Ops? Good luck.

Email the author , or follow on , , , and .

Comments
  • Pong
    Pang
    Pant
    Palt
    Halt
    Halo

    Tron
    Toon
    Loon
    Loom
    Doom
  • Pure
    Sure
    Sire
    Pier
    Bler
    Blur

    I know, for Sire-Pier I switched re to er. But originally you should be able to do that. Bit I also put a P there so...
  • Klax
    ........ Yeah, I got nothing. :D
    Edit:
    Pong
    Pang
    Hang
    Now I'm stuck again.
  • Yeah, I tried. I've got nothing. My brain doesn't work like this!

  • Hulk
    Hunk
    Hank
    Hand
    Hard
    Hare
    Hale
    Halo

    p.s Hale is a word look it up



  • Mario
    Wario
  • You people are making my brain hurt after the last 36 hours. Stop that!

  • Tron
    Toon
    Boon
    Boom
    Doom

    Pure
    Pere
    Perr
    Berr
    Beur
    Blur
  • Klax Supercalafagalisticexpialadocious Call of Duty:Black Ops i laugh at your puny mind games
  • welcome to: http://www.famalegoods.com The website wholesale for many kinds of fashion shoes, like the nike,jordan,prada,****, also including the jeans,shirts,bags,hat and the decorations. All the products are free shipping, and the the price is competitive, and also can accept the paypal payment.,after the payment, can ship within short time. free shipping competitive price any size available accept the paypal http://www.famalegoods.com jordan shoes $32 nike shox $32 Christan Audigier bikini $23 Ed Hardy Bikini $23 Smful short_t-shirt_woman $15 ed hardy short_tank_woman $16 Sandal $32 christian louboutin $80 Sunglass $15 COACH_Necklace $27 handbag $33 AF tank woman $17 puma slipper woman $30 http://www.famalegoods.com
  • Uncharted....There. I did it in zero turns.

  • Pure

    Purr

    Burr

    Bur

    Blur

    I think that works right?  Burr as in like burr its chilly outside and Bur like the burs that get stuck in your shoe/sock/foot when your in the woods or something.

  • Ah! My brain hurts. *Put some ice on it, honey!* Oh... Thanks, Mom!
  • Tron

    Toon

    (Ed)Boon

    Boom

    Doom

    Done piece of pie!(mmmm leftovers)

  • Pure
    Pire
    Pile
    Rile
    Rife
    Rift
    Sift
    Soft
    Sort
    Sore
    Bore
    Bone
    Bond
    Band
    Land
    Laud
    Loud
    Lout
    Gout
    Glut
    Glum
    Alum
    Alur
    Blur

    And only 23 steps later. I only used ones I acctually knew to be words. That took for freakin ever!
  • Crap, we're getting the spammers here now?

  • "red dead redemption" is the game im trying to get.

    eat that strawberry

    rat that strawberry

    rad that strawberry

    red that strawberry

    red shat strawberry

    red seat strawberry

    red seal strawberry

    red deal strawberry

    red dead strawberry

    red dea...

    CRAP! Strawberry can't be made into anything else. FML.