Brain Teasers
Perfect Words
A PERFECT WORD is a word in which ANY one letter could be replaced by another letter to form another word.
An example of a 4-letter Perfect Word is CAST because C could be replaced by L to form LAST or A by O to form COST, or S by R to form CART, and T by E to form CASE.
Warm Up Exercise : Give a 5-letter Perfect Word.
Challenge : Give a 6-letter Perfect Word.
An example of a 4-letter Perfect Word is CAST because C could be replaced by L to form LAST or A by O to form COST, or S by R to form CART, and T by E to form CASE.
Warm Up Exercise : Give a 5-letter Perfect Word.
Challenge : Give a 6-letter Perfect Word.
Answer
Warm Up : SHORE (CHORE STORE SHARE SHONE SHORT)Challenge : CANTER (BANTER CENTER CASTER CANCER CANTOR CANTED)
Hide Answer Show Answer
What Next?
View a Similar Brain Teaser...
If you become a registered user you can vote on this brain teaser, keep track of which ones you have seen, and even make your own.
Solve a Puzzle
Comments
Wow! A great, tough teaser. The 5 letter was easy enough: I had timed (aimed, tamed, tired, timid, times). The 6 letter was a little harder. I eventually got caster (faster, Custer, canter, casher, castor, castes) with a couple of near misses: slinks (blinks, stinks, sl_nks, slicks, slings, slinky) limped (wimped, lumped, lipped, limbed, limpid, limpet). As in: "He's such a loser - he wimped out on trying to get a better solution after only one hour!" ;-)
Hey! I got another one: shores (chores, snores, shares, shoves, shorts, shored)
Stumped me again... believe me I tried!!!!!!
thanks. The race for a 7-letter perfect word is on. smile.
WHERE DO YA GET OL UR IDEAS? GREAT WORK
I got a 6 letter one - SHORES. Chores, sNores, shAres, shoVes, shorTs, shoreD. Trying hard to get 7 letters.
Lemme know when ya got a 7 letter perfect worda
many thanks guys
Youe answer depends on center being spelt the American way if your English (like me!) you'd spell centre centRE
This was beautiful. I wrote a program to search the official Scrabble word list. I found 239 5-letter, 25 6-letter, and one 7-letter answer. (No 8, 9, or 10). Check out http://braingle.jcook.net for my findings. I won't post the 7-letter, since I didn't figure it out on my own.
Oct 08, 2003
A Perfect Teaser Or Close to It
Hey Jim, that was cool! I came really close by getting paster - Master pEster paTter pasSer pastOr pasteS.
omg that was hard ! Not even my mom could figure it out and she never gives up on brain teasers excellent work keep it up
thanks and hello to your mom
Nov 27, 2003
7 Letter word is :
pastern
pasters
posters
masters
passers
pastors
pastels
pastern
pasters
posters
masters
passers
pastors
pastels
Nov 27, 2003
Whoops :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
Nov 27, 2003
Whoops :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
Nov 27, 2003
Sorry, last time :
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
pastern
pasters
masters
posters
palters
passers
pastors
pastels
pastern
Perfect
Jan 18, 2004
Tough
paster
master
poster
palter
passer
pastor
pastel
master
poster
palter
passer
pastor
pastel
Aug 10, 2004
You must be a professional teaser maker Griphook.
not yet... thanks
hi to Amylex, Elaine, Chris and Roy. Thanks for your solutions
To post a comment, please create an account and sign in.
Follow Braingle!