Light -> Heavy is ass insane…you are a psyco!
For the meantime, here’s another transition for y’all to work on until we are graced with the Light -> Heavy chain.
Coin -> Bill
Oops, thats easy
Coin
Coil
Boil
Boll
Bill
Black -> Green (untested)
Butt -> Head
Dope -> Cool
I think it must go down some path like:
Light
Bight
Bigot
Begot
Begat
Began
etc…
but I can’t quite get it to work out this way, either, and need to go to sleep soon. Maybe you can work with that, or it could be a false lead. good luck.
Well, I may have spoke too soon. One of my words was missing a letter. I’ll keep trying though.
Okay it still would work, but I’d have to use an alternate spelling of a plural version of a unique proper noun. Or a possessive of said noun, but that’s too much of a stretch, even for me. Still working on it.
Here was my solution.
light
sight
sighs
signs
sions
lions
loons
loans
leans
leaps
leapt
least
lease
leave
heave
heavy
I’m gonna justify this one via dictionary.com
sion :
2.An idealized, harmonious community; utopia.
3.A place or religious community regarded as sacredly devoted to God.
Even though I see it’s too late, I’m gonna post my solution for light->heavy anyway, dammit!
light
bight
bigot
begot
beget
beret
buret
curet
cures
cores
cords
lords
loons
loans
leans
leant
least
lease
leave
heave
heavy
This version has two “questionables”: the first, bight, is easily defended. Look at any physical map of Australia, and there along the southern edge, you will see the Great Australian Bight (a bight is a small bay between two points of land). (Besides, I see ShibbOleth has already mentioned this.)
The other, curet, is a variation of “curette”: a kind of surgical instrument. If that one is too “dodgy”, replace curet->cores above with the following sequence:
burnt
burns
barns
bards
cards
Excellent work. I never heard of the word buret before.
Here’s butt -> head
butt
bunt
hunt
hurt
hart
hard
herd
head
Here’s **dope -> cool **
dope
rope
rape
rapt
raft
daft
dart
cart
curt
cult
colt
coot
cool
The definition for bight (from my head) is a loop of rope, like when one ties a knot. IIRC it’s one of those words you learn in the Boy Scouts. Or if you are a sailor.
I’ll do the only one not done yet.
I’m sure it’s a little circuitous, but oh well.
Black
slack
slick
slice
slide
glide
glade
grade
grane
grand
brand
bland
blend
bleed
breed
greed
Green
Yes, “grane” is a word, but in a way that would cause a fist-fight during a Scrabble game. Can someone get around this word for me? I’m a bit too lazy.
Or, Blue -> Pink
This was my solution to Black > Green:
black
blank
bland
blend
bleed
breed
greed
green
I’ll be working on Blue > Pink
Meanwhile, how about Rich > Poor?
I did it in 10 steps…but I bet there’s a simpler way.
rich -> poor
9 steps
rich
rice
dice
dike
pike
pile
pole
pool
poor
blue
blur
slur
slut
slot
soot
foot
font
fond
bond
bind
bint
pint
pink
Ouch, how could I miss the black, blank, bland transition that took me like 7 million moves to get through?
Well, my Rich -> Poor barely beats yours.
Everyone keep trying Blue -> Pink (now officially proven to work by me)
Rich
rice
race
pace
pale
pole
poll
pool
Poor
Uhh, never mind…
Way to go, Genseric.
Mine was:
rich
rice
race
face
fact
tact
taut
tout
pout
pour
poor
So, Genseric’s turn to lay one on us!
OOOPS…missed JBERGES’s solution.
You go, JB…
It’s nice when recent posts on a thread don’t appear until after you’ve written and posted yours, resulting in an awkward post that belongs a bit further up in the thread…
Genseric and TN*hippie BOTH beat me out!
I’m just so slow!!! (runs off crying)
Oh, and was your Blue>Pink solution better? Probably.
No, JB, you won cuz Gen fouled.
Just to note I forgot a word in mine, thus the subsquent nevermind post. It should have poll in between pole and pool, or better yet just substitute JBERGES shorter solution.
Anyway here’s an untested one from me *Glory -> Shame