Here’s a bit of a game I cooked up to distract my 8 year old cousins for a while, meaning Dopers should be able to dominate it: how many letter combinations can you think of where if any of the five vowels (real vowels - my condolences, Y) were inserted into a blank space, it would form five different Scrabble-acceptable words?
Ones we came up with rather quickly:
P_T (pat, pet, pit, pot, put)
**B_T **(bat, bet, bit, bot, but)
I’m sure we thought of a few more that aren’t combing to mind at the moment.
I’m sure you’ll find more painful near-examples than examples (damn your non-existence, “bOtter”, “pOck”, “lEck”, “sAre”, “sEck” and “pOn”!) but I present the challenge to you: how many more of these combinations can we come up with? I mostly stuck with 3-4 letter combos, but bonus points go out to anyone who can think of a multi-syllable example