Thanks to learning your "ladder" term last week and learning also that the lower right corner is a "special" place with you crazies, I hopped right on that ladder train and rode it right into the ground, exploring numerous warrens.hoover wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:09 am I was already primed for a word ladder since I mentioned finding one in last week's WSJ puzzle:hoover wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:44 pm Looking at the answer and how it was obtained ... I had all of the cities correct, and I had gone as far as writing out the body of water that connected each, but didn't get to step 3 of finding their initials in the 3LW. Even if I had, I may not have gotten to the answer because I had Mohawk River connecting Utica and Rome.
Rabbit holes:
- I tried playing with the directions (N, E, NW, NNW, NE) and that went nowhere.
- I found a sort of a word ladder in SCARFS SCARES SCALES SCALP (missing its S)
Testing my skills now at adding attachments. If they make it into the message, some of my more promising RH dead ends should be self evident. Seems no limit to various permutations and combinations possible. Most *definitely* limits on this boy's patience, however.
Could get ladders as long as seven words - forwards and backwards. The permutation of picking a spot to *add* a word would've felt like cheating. Wonder how many *other* random words could be stuck in between. "None" would seem an unlikely amount. Love me some sour grapes.
Oh, and have no idea whether the term "permutation" has been used with accuracy here.
Aha! That "Preview" thing suggests that the attachments shall appear!