Previous "Word Meld" puzzles consisted of a pair of words for which to find the shortest sequence of common words, each differing from the previous by only one letter, which began with one word of the pair and ended with the other.

For this problem, find the pair of words that has a shortest solution of maximum possible length.

I in no way claim that this is the longest 4-letter word meld, but it is long :-)

{EGAL, EGAD, ECAD, SCAD, SHAD, SHED, AHED, ARED, ARES, URES, URDS, URDY, UNDY, UNDO, UPDO, UPGO}

Don't ask me what some of these mean, they are from the international English scrabble list, while my 3-letter words come from the ES scrabble list. The US list is shorter, in general, than the international english list.

Posted by owl on 2005-01-26 04:13:04