The ins and outs of a word ladder, plus a solver to make those tough ones instantly easier.
This week you will find the word ladder puzzle, a game where you must transform one word into another, by changing one letter at a time. With each step of the ladder (change in letter), the new word must be a word found in the English language.
There are variations to the rules, as in only using common English words versus more obscure ones (see question number 6 from this week’s puzzle).
In fact, the version featured here is really considered word golf, whereas the original version, brought to us by Lewis Carroll, had a few other options. The original, also called doublets, letters can be added or subtracted with each step, or even rearranged, as an anagram.
Kevin Seifert has created a word ladder solver (only suitable for word golf though), which may be basic in appearance, but is all you need to get the puzzled solved.
