Upon posting, it occurred to me that I could simply have gone swank-swang-slang and cut out a bunch of steps. Oh well.
CROSS
crops
coops
corps
cords
WORDS
BEERS to DRUNK
Beers
Beets
Beats
Brats
Brass
Grass
Glass
Class
Claps
Flaps
Flats
Plats
Plate
Plane
Plank
Prank
Drank
Drunk
Now, for your audition to replace Roy as Siegfried’s sidekick, turn an ELAND into a TIGER.
ELAND to TIGER
ELAND
gland
grand
grind
grins
gains
pains
pawns
pawls
palls
pales
tales
tiles
tiler
TIGER
Next up: SHIRT --> PANTS
SHIRT
shire
share
spare
spars
sears
seals
sells
wells
walls
palls
pales
panes
PANTS
Off to work, no time to think of another.
Sternvogel beat me to the post on BEERS -> DRUNK yesterday by about 2 minutes, so I still have a new pair I haven’t posted yet.
Anyone up for:
ROSES -> THORN ?
roses
poses
posts
pouts
pours
sours
spurs
spurt
sport
short
shore
shorn
thorn
I didn’t check for conciseness. I struggled, so I didn’t want to get scooped.
I didn’t think of another. Maybe tonight.
Aha! Took me far too long to make sure it works, but…
WELSH to LEEKS
Welsh
Welch
Belch
Beach
Leach
Leash
Least
Leapt
Leaps
Leaks
Leeks
Now:
EAGER -> GROAN
Eager
Cager (basketball player)
Caged
Cared
Cares
Cards
Sards (forms of quartz)
Sands
Sends
Seeds
Seeps
Steps
Stops
Slops (feeds hogs)
Slaps
Claps
Claws
Flaws
Flows
Flown
Frown
Grown
Groan
Head to Wall Street and turn some BONDS into a share of STOCK.
BONDS > STOCKS:
Bonds
Bonus
Bones
Cones
Cokes
Cocks (male chickens everyone-behave yourself!)
Stock
HORSE > RIDER
HORSE to RIDER
HORSE
Norse
noise
poise
posse
passe
paste
pasts
parts
pares
wares
wires
wirer
wider
RIDER
Let’s try: PAINT --> BRUSH
[Rude intermission]
I call this one 'getting dumped by your girlfriend:
fucks
ducks
dunks
bunks
banks
wanks
[/Rude intermission]
WHOA!!!
Cokes -> Cocks???
Cocks -> Stock???
PAINT to BRUSH
PAINT
PAINS
GAINS
GRINS
GRIND
GRAND
BRAND
BRANS
BRASS
BRASH
BRUSH
Let’s do ANGEL to DEMON.
Angel
Anger
Auger
Luger
Luges
Lunes (crescent-shaped portions of spheres)
Lanes
Lames (makes crippled)
Lamps
Limps
Limes
Dimes
Demes (populations of interbreeding organisms – yes, dictionary.com is my friend)
Demos (the common people, as well as slang for demonstrations)
Demon
As Trunk pointed out, the successful conversion of BONDS to STOCk has yet to be transacted in this thread.
bonds
bends
beads
bears
sears
scars
scare
share
shore
short
shoot
shook
shock
stock
Double-check me, but I think that’s right.
Looks fine. Now make like a four-foot Tweety Bird and lead the RUBES to the CARNY.
I don’t know what that means but i got from RUBES > CARNY
rubes
robes
ropes
rapes
rates
rater
dater
dates
dares
pares
pores
ports
parts
pants
panty
canty
canny
carny
Now do SLICK > CAKES
A carny is a carnival worker, and rubes are the suckers that shell out their money for ring-toss games and the like in hopes of winning valueless prizes like the aforementioned four-foot tall stuffed Tweety Bird.
SLICK
slice
spice
spine
spins
spans
spars
sears
seals
sells
tells
tills
tiles
tales
takes
CAKES
Okay, MOHEL to SNIPS.