BlackDog's Word Whirl Games-Instructions

Word Whirl is based on "word chain" games familiar to most people.  Word chain games challenge you to connect a starting word and an ending word with a series of intermediate words, each of which differs from the previous word by exactly one letter.

For example, a typical word chain might ask you to connect PAGE with BOOK.  To solve the puzzle, you could proceed like this:

PAGE
PACE
PACK
RACK
ROCK
ROOK
BOOK

Like a word chain puzzle, with Word Whirl you connect a starting word and an ending word by finding a series of qualifying intermediate words.  There are two important differences:

1. In a Word Whirl game you are allowed a specific number of steps to get from the start word to the end word. You must use that number of steps - no more, no less - in order to win.
2. Instead of a single rule for connecting words, in Word Whirl there are six ways - called transition rules - of getting from one word to the next.  Each step of a Word Whirl game tells you the rule that you must follow for that step.

Each game has that game's rules listed on the left side of the game.  There's even a cute little image illustrating the rule.  However, here are all of the transition rules you will see:

• Rule 1 - Add a letter
• Rule 2 - Change a letter
• Rule 3 - Move a letter
• Rule 4 - Remove a letter
• Rule 5 - Scramble the letters
• Rule 6 - Swap two letters

That's it.  Have fun!

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