BODY PART WORD LADDERS

GAMES/World of Puzzles

February, 2021

Ogden Porter

 

The object of a word ladder is to change one given letter into another by altering one letter at a time and making a common, un-capitalized English word at each step. No letters may be scrambled form one step to the next. For example, to change WARM to COOL in five steps, one solution would be

 

WARM

WORM

WORK

CORK

COOK

COOL. 

 

Try these:

 

1. HEAD to TOES (4 steps)

2. HAND to FOOT (5 steps)

3. NOSE to CHIN (6 steps)

4. HAIR to NECK ( 6 steps)

5. KNEE to SHIN (7 steps) 

HINTS:

Second word of the ladder:

1. HEED

2. BAND

3. LOSE

4. HEIR

5. KNEW

 

(Possible) Answers:

1. HEAD, HEED, HOED, HOES, TOES

 

2. HAND, BAND, BOND, FOND, FOOD, FOOT

                                                          FONT

 

3. NOSE, LOSE, LORE, CORE, CORN, COIN, CHIN

 

4. HAIR, HEIR, HEAR, PEAR, PEAK, PECK, NECK

 

5. KNEE, KNEW, KNOW, SNOW, SHOW, SHOP, SHIP, SHIN