The same two changes can be made to each of the words below to create new words. What are the changes and what are the new words?

AGE

CAB

COB

CUP

HEM

LIE

NAP

PUT 

Answers:

 

The two changes are to drop the last letter and to change the second letter to lower case. This will change each word into a symbol for an element.

 

AGE - Ag - silver

ARC - Ar - argon

CAB - Ca - calcium

COB - Co - cobalt

CUP - Cu - copper

HEM - He - helium

LIE - Li - lithium

NAP - Na - sodium

NET - Ne - neon 

NIT - Ni - nickel

PUT - Pu - Plutonium

 

Note: Similar puzzle - posted 7/18/21