Letter Juggle 7
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. Open - Cop
2. Cave - Curt
3. Cares - Pest
4. Salve - Savage
5. Whiled - Spurn
Hint1. Cage
2. Use a knife
3. Stroke lightly
4. Preserve
5. Rotated quickly
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Answer
1. Pen - Coop
2. Carve - Cut
3. Caress - Pet
4. Save - Salvage
5. Whirled - Spun
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Comments
rolugomi  
May 07, 2010
| Yeah! First to comment! good job, love your teasers  |
jimbooth019
Jun 04, 2010
| Fun teaser. I gave up on the last one 
Thanks!!  |
bradon182001 
Jun 04, 2010
| Really fun teaser. Thanks for posting. |
addie
Jun 04, 2010
| Love these, thanks! |
doehead 
Jun 04, 2010
| Solved it. Nice to see a new teaser. |
sunnybonghits 
Jun 04, 2010
| I really do like these teasers, but I wouldn't mind seeing some that are a little more difficult - maybe by rearranging some letters after moving the one letter? |
patiencewithaP
Jun 04, 2010
| Good one! Thanks for posting! |
wordmama
Jun 04, 2010
| #'s 1 & 4 followed the example of moving the letter from left to right so I got those. When I succumbed to looking at the hint, I realized the letter could also move from right to left; if I'd known that first, I wouldn't have needed the hint to solve the others! Ultimately fun! |
jcann
Jun 04, 2010
| I needed the hint for #3. I really like this kind of teaser. You don't have to make them harder for me! |
coinjar876
Jun 04, 2010
| Good teaser, makes a lot of sense. 
But, I must admit, I prefer trick teasers to these kinds. |
precious1026
Jun 04, 2010
|  
Finally, I got a few. Patience is a Virtue, so true. I love these teaser, Right or Wrong. |
Babe
Jun 04, 2013
| Good one and got them all. Pay no attention to the person who wants them harder. These are just fine! |
HABS2933 
Jun 04, 2013
| I also enjoy these, they are solvable without being too easy. I solved all but #3 readily, but, for some reason (that I cannot fathom), needed the hint for that one. Once I got the hint, it was simple but I just couldn't see it before that.
Though I enjoy your behead and curtail puzzles, I enjoy these more as they are a bit more difficult without being impossible. |
cutebug
Jun 04, 2013
| A bit on the easy side, although very interesting. |
katamaster
Jun 04, 2013
| For #2 I used carve and cut. It works too. |
katamaster
Jun 04, 2013
| Never mind my last comment. I was looking at the question as the answer. |
thecatladycac
Jun 04, 2013
| Very fun teaser. I had to think pretty hard for number 3 - but I did get them all. Keep coming up with these (you have the hard part!) Thanks  |
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