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Post by VDeep on Mar 30, 2005 16:10:58 GMT -5
I haven't come up with a good name for this one yet, but I'm calling it Word Golf for the time being, because the idea is to get te lowest score possible. Anyhow, get a newspaper, book, shampoo bottle, anything with a sequence of at least 35 letters on it. Write down every other letter of the sequence, until you have 18 letters (18... because it's golf, I guess). For instance, if the sequence began with the words "Rabid equine", your first six letters would be R-B-D-Q-I-E. Now, somewhere else on this book or bottle or whatever, find a four-letter word. Here's where it starts getting Scrabble-like... You can only choose from the first seven unused letters in your sequence. Take one letter and use it to replace another letter in the word to make another (legitmate) word. Cross off the used letter from your list. The eighth letter will now become the new 'seventh' letter to replace the one you use. Keep going until you use all eighteen letters in your list, or until you have written yourself into a corner and cannot make a new word. You can repeat words in your list, but you cannot replace a letter in your word with the same letter from your hand. Example....
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Post by MW on Mar 30, 2005 16:48:38 GMT -5
Okay, I'm going to try and do this using my Mailbag Archives news post. Here we go.
Here are my 18 letters: JSWNETPITOTHTVACIE
BACK JSWNETP TACK JSWNEPI TICK JSWNEPT WICK JSNEPTO SICK JNEPTOT SOCK JNEPTTH JOCK NEPTTHT TOCK NEPTHTV HOCK NEPTTVA POCK NETTVAC PECK NTTVACI PACK NTTVCIE PACE NTTVCI PACT NTVCI PANT TVCI PACT TVI TACT VI TAIT V (it's a word! look it up!)
Got it down to one.
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