Perfect Words
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
A PERFECT WORD is a word in which ANY one letter could be replaced by another letter to form another word.
An example of a 4-letter Perfect Word is CAST because C could be replaced by L to form LAST or A by O to form COST, or S by R to form CART, and T by E to form CASE.
Warm Up Exercise : Give a 5-letter Perfect Word.
Challenge : Give a 6-letter Perfect Word.
Answer
Warm Up : SHORE (CHORE STORE SHARE SHONE SHORT)
Challenge : CANTER (BANTER CENTER CASTER CANCER CANTOR CANTED)
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Cakey1987
Sep 09, 2003
| Wow! A great, tough teaser. The 5 letter was easy enough: I had timed (aimed, tamed, tired, timid, times). The 6 letter was a little harder. I eventually got caster (faster, Custer, canter, casher, castor, castes) with a couple of near misses: slinks (blinks, stinks, sl_nks, slicks, slings, slinky) limped (wimped, lumped, lipped, limbed, limpid, limpet). As in: "He's such a loser - he wimped out on trying to get a better solution after only one hour!" ;-) |
Cakey1987
Sep 09, 2003
| Hey! I got another one: shores (chores, snores, shares, shoves, shorts, shored) |
taniapereira99   
Sep 09, 2003
| Stumped me again... believe me I tried!!!!!! |
griphook 
Sep 10, 2003
| thanks. The race for a 7-letter perfect word is on. smile. |
magdalo
Sep 16, 2003
| WHERE DO YA GET OL UR IDEAS? GREAT WORK |
krishnan 
Sep 21, 2003
| I got a 6 letter one - SHORES. Chores, sNores, shAres, shoVes, shorTs, shoreD. Trying hard to get 7 letters. |
nik4494
Sep 26, 2003
| Lemme know when ya got a 7 letter perfect worda  |
griphook
Oct 04, 2003
| many thanks guys |
chloe31
Oct 06, 2003
| Youe answer depends on center being spelt the American way if your English (like me!) you'd spell centre centRE |
jimrcook
Oct 06, 2003
| This was beautiful. I wrote a program to search the official Scrabble word list. I found 239 5-letter, 25 6-letter, and one 7-letter answer. (No 8, 9, or 10). Check out http://braingle.jcook.net for my findings. I won't post the 7-letter, since I didn't figure it out on my own. |
(user deleted)
Oct 08, 2003
| A Perfect Teaser Or Close to It |
krishnan
Oct 09, 2003
| Hey Jim, that was cool! I came really close by getting paster - Master pEster paTter pasSer pastOr pasteS. |
avril_lavigne
Oct 26, 2003
| omg that was hard ! Not even my mom could figure it out and she never gives up on brain teasers excellent work keep it up |
griphook
Oct 26, 2003
| thanks and hello to your mom |
(user deleted)
Nov 27, 2003
| 7 Letter word is :
pastern
pasters
posters
masters
passers
pastors
pastels |
(user deleted)
Nov 27, 2003
| Whoops :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
|
(user deleted)
Nov 27, 2003
| Whoops :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
|
(user deleted)
Nov 27, 2003
| Sorry, last time :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
pastern |
bbngk
Jan 12, 2004
| Perfect  |
(user deleted)
Jan 18, 2004
| Tough  |
griphook
Feb 21, 2004
|  |
mad-ade
Jul 26, 2004
| paster
master
poster
palter
passer
pastor
pastel |
(user deleted)
Aug 10, 2004
| You must be a professional teaser maker Griphook. |
griphook
Nov 26, 2006
| not yet... thanks |
griphook
Dec 03, 2008
| hi to Amylex, Elaine, Chris and Roy. Thanks for your solutions |
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