Morph and Jumble

[katepoet]

Here's a word game that can be fun - it has more freedom but as you know, "with freedom comes responsibility." It's a game I came up with once when everyone was burning out on the standard games. We kept hitting words we couldn't change within the rules.

Rules:

Just take the word someone posts, add or subtract a letter and/or jumble the letters into a new word. There are no length limits.

If you cannot think of a way to twist and change what's there within those limits, you can change more than one letter or even start with a new word.

Example:

mantle can become meant if the l is subtracted and the rest is jumbled.

Here's a word to start with:

jumper

[DianaB]

Rumple

[katepoet]

grumpier

[judy]

I'm lost already.

[DianaB]

Originally Posted by katepoet

grumpier

Ok, I'm lost too. I thought that you said you can change a letter, add a letter, or jumble it up. You jumbled up your letters and changed more than one letter, and added two letters.

[Mandy]

Originally Posted by judy

I'm lost already.

Me too.

[katepoet]

It's almost like free association - you can change one (or more) letter/add one/jumble them - or go with the closest thing that comes to mind... sounds almost too free form but once you get used to it, it goes quickly. I couldn't think quickly of a single change or twist to rumple - all that came to mind were varieties of grumpy - probably from writing about grumpy Rumpelstiltskin and his sister Frumpy - but I could see it had some of rumple in it and so it was ok to use. The best people at the game do a lot of the warping or twisting, tired people tend to rhyme or add -s or -ier...

So a chain might be:

sandy
candy
candid
candle
dandle
wander
winded
windier
windy
wimpy
wimple
dimple
dumpy
dumptruck
trucker (or mudpuppy would have been a morph and delete and add)
curtly
courtly
courtier
curvier
river
rival
arrival
larva
livelier
livid
video
dive
divide
device
ceded
seeded
steed
detest
testy
stymied
dimes
miser
misery
risen
rosin
roses
sore
soar
oared
roared
dared

It's sort of a free your mind word game to get you thinking, writing, maybe going to dictionary.com and looking up how a word is spelled and then finding its roots and getting charged up over the language we all use.

[AngieDoogles]

I still don't think I understand completely. Dumpy to Dumptruck adds on a lot of letters... Is it just any word you associate with the letters of the previous word?

[katepoet]

Well - the original rule is change/add/subtract a letter and/or jumble the letters into another word. But because sometimes people can't see a way to do that, even with so many options, the rules were relaxed to include if nothing else - put the word that comes to mind.

There are two goals to the game: the first is to challenge yourself to follow the original rules, and the second is to play it no matter what, to let your mind pick the next word with a little creativity so the game keeps going.

It was developed on a writing site where we were trying to beat writers block - hence, the focus is to at least get a word down that you link in someway with the word before it. (It can be fun to try to figure out why someone links what they do put down.)

We can change it to be whatever fits so how do you think we should do it here?

[highlans]

So glad I was not the only one

[DianaB]

Ok, I understand how the smaller words that you have on the list fit go together, but the longer words I don't see how they fit with the rules. Actually it's coming up with a word that reminds us of the word we're seeing. A word that's similar.

Farm
Farmer
Charmer
Charms
Harms
Hams

Is this correct?

[judy]

frumpier
friendlier
fried
friends
ending
sending
seeking
needing
sewing
knowing
snowing
plowing
cozier
dozing
lazy
sassy
happy

I clearly made up my own rules, but I had a good time. What else matters? I kind of tried to stick to the rules sometimes.

[katepoet]

I knew you were a writer Judy! And yes, Diana, you've got it too.

so - what word shall we start with or do you want to re-write the rules some?

[AngieDoogles]

How about Judy's last word--happy?

sappy

[katepoet]

spayed