A NEW PUZZLE.
Students at the Boston Institute of Technology have designed a rival to the gem puzzle, which is beginning to excite considerable interest. Given two words of an equal number of letters the problem is to chango one to the other by altering one letter at a time of the first so as to make a legitimate English word, continuing the alterations until the desired result is obtained. The conditions are that only one letter shall be altered to form each new word, and that none but words which can be found in English dictionaries shall be used. Here are some examples of the change : — East to West. —East, vast, vest, West. Boot to Shoe. —Boot, soot,shot, Shoe. Dog to Cat. —Dog, dig, pig, fig, fit, fat, Cat. Milk to Hash. —Milk, mile, male, mate, hate, hath, Hash. Eoad to Rail,-— Road, rood, root, coot, coat, coal, coil, toil, tail, Rail. Soup to Fish. —Soup, eoul, soil, foil, fowl, fool, foot, coot, cost, cast, fast, fist, Fish. The game is becoming quite popular in railroad offices, as well as in family circles and at firesides, and seems to furnish instruction with amusement.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 247, 18 October 1880, Page 4
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194A NEW PUZZLE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 247, 18 October 1880, Page 4
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