Letter Juggle 10
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Flat - Pump
2. Feather - Crate
3. Bet - Stop
4. Ear - Trip
5. Lopes - Shills
Hint1. Overweight
2. Produce
3. Ranking
4. Pull apart
5. Mounds
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Answer
1. Fat - Plump
2. Father - Create
3. Best - Top
4. Tear - Rip
5. Slopes - Hills
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Comments
NDYApeacock   
May 24, 2010
| This is fun!!!  |
beyonce123 
May 27, 2010
| really good but easy |
gaylewolf   
Jun 26, 2010
| I thought "father/create" was a stretch. Father and creator - yes.
Otherwise, ok puzzle.
Try it again - I know you can make a better one! Thanks  |
MarcM1098   
Jun 26, 2010
| Father is used as a verb here, not a noun. "To create, found, or originate."
It is even listed in the thesaurus as a synonym:
http://thesaurus.com/browse/create |
doehead   
Jun 26, 2010
| A bit on the easy side,but at long last not an over used repeat!!  |
bradon182001   
Jun 26, 2010
| Well done, thanks for posting. |
auntiesis   
Jun 26, 2010
| Easy but fun. Well done, I would like to see more of these, maybe a little harder.  |
yash23
Jun 26, 2010
| My first one that I actually finished!
Meaning that it was too easy. |
craniac    
Jun 26, 2010
| Well I for one didn't mind this teaser's being easy,, and it was a lot of fun. |
M2101 
Jun 26, 2010
| Weird, but it seems OK. I guess. (53% good ) (47% hard ) |
scallio   
Jun 27, 2010
| Fun!
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bear01   
Jun 27, 2010
| nice one got it pretty quick but thats because i love these Keep them coming 'super-teaser-maker!' |
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