Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Tuesday puzzle
Alex Y
Transform "GREEN" to "GRASS" in as few steps as possible, changing one letter at a time, with each step resulting in an English word. There may be more than one solution.
E.g., to convert "PINK" to "ROSE" in four steps, you could do:
PINK
PINE
PONE
POSE
ROSE
or
PINK
RINK
RISK
RISE
ROSE
Here's one way
Larry Barrett
green-treen-trees-tress-cress-crass-grass
A three-way winner!
Alex Y
1) You did it in one fewer step than the source of the puzzle had.
2) You taught be a new word, "treen"
3) that word was even on-topic for Wood Central!
Thanks for playing.
The solution I had seen, with one more step, was
green-greed-creed-Crees-cress-crass-grass
And "Cree" is a proper noun, which, while not disallowed, seems less legit.
Looks like I need to find some more difficult material!
