A game

[gio73]

Recently Ghira brought up a game

There are words which you can attach to a A at the beginning

Such as

Way - > away
Kin - > akin

Sometimes the meaning is completely different

Such as

Steroid - > asteroid
Cute - > acute

So far the best is

Unties - > aunties

Now my new move is

Broad - > abroad

[Shackle]

This can be done with other letters too :

way => away

up => cup

ear => bear

......

[gio73]

Alphabetic order

Way => away
Ear => bear
Up => cup

One => done
Licit => elicit
ill => fill

[ghira]

Alphabetic order

ill => fill

able -> gable
arm -> harm
mage -> image
ail -> jail

[Bokonon]

live -> alive
lame -> blame
rap -> crap
rag -> drag
lite -> elite
art -> fart
ray -> gray
eat -> heat
con -> icon
okey -> jokey
eel -> keel
ace -> lace
ale > male
ice -> nice
ink -> oink
latter -> platter
ant -> rant
corn -> scorn
rain -> train
omit -> vomit
hale -> whale
ear -> year
oink -> zoink

[gio73]

Now which are the best word to transform?

For instance

ONE is a good one because you can have

Done
Gone
Bone
Tone
...


ICE
Mice
Lice
Dice
Nice
...

END
Lend
Send
Mend
Tend
...

EST
Rest
Fest
Test
Nest
...

[ghira]

"ail" seems pretty good

bail
fail
hail
jail
mail
nail
pail
rail
sail
tail
wail

[ghira]

"ill" isn't bad

bill
dill
fill
gill
hill
(jill? maybe not)
kill
mill
pill
rill
sill
till
will

[gio73]

[ghira]

"in"?

bin
din
fin
gin
kin
pin
sin
tin
win

Hmm. Not as good as some of the others.

"an"?
ban
can
dan (in Go, Shogi and martial arts)
fan
lan (local area network. hmm. maybe not.)
man
nan (grandmother... ok)
pan
ran
san (storage area network.. maybe trying too hard)
tan
van
wan (wide area network but also another more plausible word)