Lety's play a game!

MILK
mink
mind
mend
mead
read
reed
deed
deer
BEER

How 'bout SODA into WINE?

Soda
Coda
Cods
Rods
Rids
Ride
Rine
Wine

Keeping up with the beverages… COKE into PIBB?

COKE
Cake
Cape
Caps
Cops
Cobs
Bobs
Bibs
Bibb
PIBB

Who am I to break up a good thing? ICED --> TEAS

Let’s see…

COKE
Poke
Pike
Pile
Gile
Gibe
Gibb
PIBB

For our next trick:
Mage -> Wand

Okay, then, I’ll try this one:
ICED
Ices
Aces
Acts
Aits
Sits
Sets (Chiefly British A small island)
Seas
TEAS

MAGE
Wage
Wane
WAND

Okay… KING --> PAGE

KING --> PAGE

king
sing
sang
sane
sage
page

Next up: LURK --> POST

(I didn’t read through the whole thread. Apologies if this has already been done)

LURK
Lure
Pure
Pore
Port
POST
BOOT -> HATS

boot
bott
bots
bats
hats
goat to lamp

Goat
Goal
Coal
Cool
Coop
Comp
Camp
Lamp

RING = DOOM

RING
rind
rend
read
ream
roam
room
DOOM
RULE —> AVER

Rule
Role
Rile
Rill (small brook)
Rial (Iranian money)
Rias (inlets)
Rims
Aims
Arms
Ares (units of land measure – a hectare is 100 ares)
Apes
Aper (imitator)
Aver

It’s a hot day, so if you dare, feel free to go from CLAD to BARE.

CLAD
clap
clan
plan
pean
dean
dern
darn
barn
BARE

SUCK --> BLOW

SUCK
luck
lurk
lure
lore
more
mole
molt
moot
soot
slot
blot
BLOW

FLIP —> MILK

FLIP
Flap
Flat
Feat
Meat
Meet
Melt
Mell
Mill
MILK

Complete reversal: BATS --> STAB

BATS
Bets
Sets
Sees
Seas
Sear
Star
STAB

DEBT -> PAID

DEBT
dent
went
want
wand
sand
said
PAID

SUIT --> CLUB

SUIT
Slit
Flit
Flat
Flab
Flub
CLUB

PAIR --> ACES

PAIR
hair
heir
hear
bear
beat
brat
bras
eras
oras
ores
ires
ices
ACES

FUEL --> TANK

FUEL --> TANK

FUEL
FULL
BULL
BULK
BUNK
BANK
TANK

Next up: RAIN --> SNOW