| Rosemarie's
Guide to Solving
Word
Origami Puzzles
My strategy for solving a Word Origami puzzle is to work the puzzle
from one end and then the other. I mostly avoid anagrams (2 points),
they are usually too costly. Where a letterbank word is required,
I'm constantly on the lookout for a word which has many of the same
letters as both the beginning and goal words, plus duplicate letters
in it. After working out a puzzle, I do it again to try to better
my score.
The letterbank rule is used primarily to transform a word of one letter
length into a word of another letter length. When the beginning and
goal words are of different lengths, the letterbank rule must be used
at least once.
All of the letters in the word you are working with (minus duplications),
must appear in the newly "transformed" letterbanked word.
The new word is made up of these letters, plus duplications, or even
triplicates, of any of these same letters as you choose.
Here are several examples of letterbank transformations which have
appeared in previously published Word Origami puzzles.
lost - tools, Don Monson, 8-6-98.
rope - roper, and roped - dropped, Bill Taylor, 11-4-98.
saber - barbers, William Flis, 1-23-99.
tiles - silliest, and hilliest - thistles, Ranu Khanna, 2-16-99. (even
though these two words have the same number of letters, one is not
an
anagram of the other.)
abaca - cab, Bill Flis and Sam Freund, 3-24-99.
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