Saturday, December 14, 2019

Change: A Word Game

"The more it changes," wrote Alphonse Karr, "the more it is the same thing." Can you change the word SAME into the word IDEM in as few steps as possible? Change only one letter at a time, making a new word each time, and do not change the order of the letters from one step to the next. Proper names, slang, and obsolete words are not allowed.

Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)

My answer: Same, sane, sand, send, seed, seem, stem, item, idem (8 steps).

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