Heard of cows, too - but admittedly never of Lanc. dialect. :|
newspaper (Vanity Fair, March 29 (- June 21) 1879).
Now I would count changing + rearranging = 2 moves, but it is a
curious & most rewarding approach. Miss the challenge of dislocated
vowels, though - but that could be compensated for by making
rearrangement obligatory:
TANK - gnat - fang - FLAG ;P
Carroll originally proposed a system for counting marks (with fewer
steps = more marks) which was adopted by the paper, but it
presupposes the smallest number of steps to be known. (The least
steps found may suffice.) So either one knows the shortest solution
already, or scoring must be relative until everyone gives up or a
winning reference value is set
- or one chooses LT counting.
Carroll admits to having heard of "an American game involving a
similar principle", but that he has never seen it.
Anyway we have a deal - I draw 1 cookie too :) o
All the best
ChD
> My regional newspaper considers it acceptable toMy source is Mr. Lewis Carroll, his communication to another
> rearrange the letters after changing one of them. Interestingly, the
> path can be traversed in the least possible steps using this trick
> only once. Thus: TANK -> tang -> fang -> FLAG.
newspaper (Vanity Fair, March 29 (- June 21) 1879).
Now I would count changing + rearranging = 2 moves, but it is a
curious & most rewarding approach. Miss the challenge of dislocated
vowels, though - but that could be compensated for by making
rearrangement obligatory:
TANK - gnat - fang - FLAG ;P
Carroll originally proposed a system for counting marks (with fewer
steps = more marks) which was adopted by the paper, but it
presupposes the smallest number of steps to be known. (The least
steps found may suffice.) So either one knows the shortest solution
already, or scoring must be relative until everyone gives up or a
winning reference value is set
- or one chooses LT counting.
Carroll admits to having heard of "an American game involving a
similar principle", but that he has never seen it.
Anyway we have a deal - I draw 1 cookie too :) o
All the best
ChD