Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)
Huldra Forsvant (Theodor Kittelsen)

Friday, December 11, 2009

An Awesome Word Game That I Just Totally Made Up On The Bus This Morning

Okay, what you have to do is think of a word with one vowel in it, that remains a proper word when you substitute that vowel with each of the other vowels. So, you'll be supplying five different words.

The first step is to do this with a three letter word. Once you do that, the next person has to do four, and so on (but you can't skip from three to five).

Once it gets to five letters, there can be an extra vowel in the word, but the same one must be substituted in all the words.

The winner is the one who eventually gets the longest word, and they will get an amazing prize.

24 comments:

Ben McLaughlin said...

Okay, I'll get it started because y'all be yella.

Tan
Ten
Tin
Ton
Tun

And to the doubters who say 'tun' isn't a word, it's a tardigrade in it's cyptobiotic state. So ner.

Okay, FOUR letter word now..

Nathan said...

tans
tens
tins
tuns
tons

Ben McLaughlin said...

There's always one.

Okay, that brings it up to five letters, so there can be an extra vowel in the word.

Nathan said...

Does the other vowel stay constant?

Nathan said...

pots
pats
pets
pits
puts

Would also have worked for the four letter version.

RodeoClown said...

dicks
dacks
docks
ducks
decks

(Dacks, like pants right?)

Nathan said...

chocks
chacks
checks
chicks
chucks

Chack - To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle

Nathan said...

bitters
betters
butters
batters
botters

Botter- one who bots.

Nathan said...

pitters
patters
putters
petters
potters

Petter - one who pets.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Good work fellas! Sorry I've been on a long lunch.

So we're going for 8..

Ben McLaughlin said...

and yeah, I reckon the other vowel stays constant

RodeoClown said...

spitters
spotters
sputters
spatters

spetters? (I found it in wikipedia).

Nathan said...

inrolled - came inside
enrolled
unrolled
anrolled - kept rolling - rolled anrolled anrolled anrolled...
onrolled - continued

Ben McLaughlin said...

Sorry brother, but that be one too many vowels.

Nathan said...

Bugger. I hadn't refreshed. Now we're after nine.

boomerang - Indigenous Australian hunting device.
boomering - the art of using a boomerang.
boomerung - the past tense of using a boomerang.
boomereng - the description of the path a boomerang takes.
boomerong - throwing a boomerang so it doesn't come back.

Nathan said...

when do we get a new vowel?

Nathan said...

splitters
splotters
splatters
splutters
spletters


A splotter makes splots.

And a Spletter spell checks letters.

Ben McLaughlin said...

Creative! At first I was dubious about the boomer-variations, but I just consulted an Aboriginal elder who verified that they were all spot on.

Ben McLaughlin said...

And we're still going for 9.

We get a 3rd vowel at 10.

Nathan said...

stringers
strangers
strungers
strongers
strengers

Strongers - I am strongers than you.
Strengers - strangers you kind of know

Nathan said...

This game would need less cheating if you had to get a minimum of three of the vowels for each set.

Anonymous said...

Hey are you a professional journalist? This article is very well written, as compared to most other blogs i saw today….
anyhow thanks for the good read!

Tracy said...

This is totally cracking me up. :o)

Ben McLaughlin said...

Nath, I accept that rule-change.