Changing Colors
posted by Rajesh Lal at
8:23 AM
Thursday, February 7, 2008
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22 Comments:
Ok, I will start the ball rolling with 7 intermediate steps
GRASS
GROSS
GROWS
GROWN
GROAN
GROAT
GREAT
GREET
GREEN
Can anyone do better?
GROAT i have never heard that word
i hadnt but i looked it up it is "a silver coin of England, equal to four pennies, issued from 1279 to 1662."
grass
glass
glans - sorry but it works
glens
glees
gleen
green
i think that's 5 intermediate steps
Yeah i think jjeans is correct, i looked up glans and it is an actual word and it is also the shortest i can think of
There was GRASS to GREEN doublet was proposed by Lewis Carroll. The shortest known solution to it was found decades later with help of computer:
grass
crass
cress
tress
trees
treed
greed
green
Yes, I cheated and found it on the internet, but good job jjens for doing it on your own!
grass
graes (its on wikipedia!)
graen (http://www.graen.co.uk/)
green
beat that!
pronouns like Graen aren't allowed.
two things wrong with your statement,
a) it's a noun, not a pronoun
b) it doesn't say I can't use a noun, and it doesn't even say I can't use a pronoun
I think Ben meant "proper nouns," which "Graen" is. And usually in word puzzles of this variety, one is expected to use common nouns; since, by the same logic, I could do this:
grass
Gress (the name of my next parakeet)
GRESN (the Guild of Reactionary Economists for a Solution to Nature, which I will form tomorrow)
green
I think you get the point.
I don't think he meant proper nouns, since a pronoun, are things like he, she, and it, and if he meant proper nouns by "pronouns" then I wouldn't trust him to know the difference
i also believe that technically yours is right too
If I remember correctly, a "groat" is a part of a seed, or seed-related edible part, usually eaten by birds....i.e. "oat groats" ??
Yes?
3
to jjens, and eric
of course glans is a word, everybody knows that
3 steps:
Grass
-Gress
-Grees
Green
(is that 2, 3, or 4 steps?)
anyways, if you don't believe me look them up on www. dictionary.com
They are all words-so ha!
technically that one doesn't work, because it says make a meaningfuil word at each step, not an acronym
i'm so glad i read all that...
Me too ! Everything is so muuch clearer now
If no-one else has said anything ... "Groat" is an old English coin worth 1/4 of an old penny
Hulled oats, that's what groats are in this century. Put oat groats in your search bar. Birds love to eat them. At least caged birds do, don't know if wild birds do.
ANSWER : Not 5 but 2 Steps
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This can have multiple answers, my favorite answer had five steps but as per the anonyous guy
GRASS
1. Gress
2. Grees
GREEN
Both are meanigful words but not common.
My original answer was as per the Lewis Carroll doublet.
GRASS
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1. CRASS
2. CRESS
3. CREES
4. CREED
5. GREED
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GREEN
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GOT RIGHT
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jjens for 5 steps
Thanks Liz for sharing
"There was GRASS to GREEN doublet was proposed by Lewis Carroll. The shortest known solution to it was found decades later with help of computer:
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