WORDLY-WISE: YOUR DAILY DOSE OF WORD PLAY Saturday 3 May 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- W O R D O R I G A M I ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis Carroll would love this variation of his ingenious Doublets game! Word Origami permits letterbanking, as well as letter swapping and anagramming, so source and target words need not be of equal length. Newcomers to this game can review the letterbanking process at www.hoadworks.com/lbw.htm G U I L T b y A S S O C I A T I O N Transform GUILT into ASSOCIATION by: 1. LETTER SWAP: change one letter to produce a new word [1 point]; 2. ANAGRAM the word into another [2 points]; 3. LETTERBANK the word into another [3 points]. Each step must be discrete; you may not combine two transformations into one step! UNCOMMON #33 ------------------------------------------------------------------- BE ORIGINAL. Be uncommonly clever! For each clue, provide a response that is correct and that will be duplicated by the fewest entrants. Good luck! _________ 1. A mood _________ 2. A god _________ 3. A word differing by one letter from the word "May" _________ 4. A dance _________ 5. A 3+ letter word embedded in the opening sentences of Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize winning "Empire Falls" (see text below) "Compared to the Whiting mansion in town, the house Charles Beaumont Whiting built a decade after his return to Maine was modest. By every other standard of Empire Falls, where most single-family homes cost well under seventy-five thousand dollars, his was palatial, with five bedrooms, five full baths, and a detached artist's studio. C. B. Whiting had spent several formative years in old Mexico, and the house he built, appearances be damned, was a mission-style hacienda. He even had the bricks specially textured and painted tan to resemble adobe. A damn-fool house to build in central Maine, peoplesaid, though they didn't say it to him." Correct answers score the number of people who provided that answer. If wrong, or unanswered, a high score results (high score + 1). Total scoresare calculated by *multiplying* each result. Submissions are due via email to hoad@hoadworks.com; deadline Sun, May 5, 2002 midnight your time. Please add comments, sources and explanations. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WORDLY-WISE: YOUR IRREGULAR DOSE OF WORD PLAY Monday 27 May 2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Adrian Hoad-Reddick Elora, Ontario, CANADA http://www.hoadworks.com Email:hoad@hoadworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Uncommon 33 Results ------------------------------------------------------------------- The majority of the Uncommon entries were aced by our competitors! Thanks to Chris Rivers for helping me score this issue (he got fed up asking whether I had done so...) 4s Katy Appleton -- ray (2), alma (2) 2s John Van Pelt - alma (2) Val Johnston - nay (2) John Colver - cay(2) Kaytie Eldr - cay (2) Rosemarie Grayley - ray (2) Steve Andrews - nay (2) ACES Zero [bad, quetzalcoatl, man, tarantella, bead] Carol [COMPLACENCY, EBISCU, YAY, MANIPURI, REDAN] Rivers [irksome, DEOHAKO, mar, The Romani Dance, asp] Don Monson [HOPEFUL, HAPI, SAY, COMING ROUND THE MOUNTAIN, ERS] Elinor Hood [funk, janus, mae, cotillion, thought] Kristen Keohane [Subjunctive, Morpheus, fay, hip-hop, event] Michael Turniansky [MELANCHOLY, BELI MAWR,MAG,REDOWACZKA,LATI] Rapier Duck [glum, Trickster, army, Slop, ache] Rex Stocklin [RANCOR, KEN HENSLEY, MAS, THE SAFETY DANCE, ALLY] WDWdotcom [ACHARNEMENT, HEIMDALL, MAW, ST. VITUS’S, DAH] Answers from Last Day ------------------------------------------------------------------- W O R D O R I G A M I ------------------------------------------------------------------- G U I L T b y A S S O C I A T I O N Transform GUILT into ASSOCIATION by: 1. LETTER SWAP: change one letter to produce a new word [1 point]; 2. ANAGRAM the word into another [2 points]; 3. LETTERBANK the word into another [3 points]. Each step must be discrete; you may not combine two transformations into one step! GUILT GUILE [1] GUIDE [1] GLIDE [1] SLIDE [1] SLICE [1] SPICE [1] SPIRE [1] SHIRE [1] SHORE [1] SCORE [1] SCORN [1] SCORNS [3] ACORNS [1] RACOONS [3] RATOONS [1] RATIONS [1] CATIONS [1] ASSOCIATION [3] ------------------------ 24 The computer managed it in 16: GUILT GUILE(1) GUIDE(1) GUIDS(1) GRIDS(1) GRINS(1) GRANS(1) TRANS(1) RATTANS(3) RATTONS(1) RATIONS(1) CATIONS(1) ASSOCIATION(3) --------------- 16 -- Mike Turniansky ------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or download archival files from Wordly-L visit http://www.hoadworks.com/subscribe.htm If your friends and family enjoy word games, please encourage them to join the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wordly-Wise is copyright (c) 2002 Adrian Hoad-Reddick. All rights reserved. More fun and games online at http://www.hoadworks.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------- You may reproduce this newsletter in whole or in part in other free media online provided that you include the copyright notice above. -------------------------------------------------------------------