Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Autumn Foliage
by Sandy Wood - November 6, 2009 - 7:30 AM

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Here’s hoping that you enjoy today’s Brain Game word ladder. By changing one letter at a time to form new words, and leaving all other letters in their original positions, convert the word GREEN into the word BROWN in seven (or fewer) steps:

G R E E N
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B R O W N

Here is a six-step SOLUTION.
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Comments (9)

  1. Was able to do it in five:
    GREEN
    GREET
    GREAT
    GROAT definition of ‘groat’
    GROAN
    GROWN
    BROWN

    -”BB”-

    posted by Bicycle Bill on 11-6-2009 at 10:27 am

  2. My error. They were counting “grown” to “brown” as step six; I was only counting the five steps in between.

    But it still beats seven!!

    -”BB”-

    posted by Bicycle Bill on 11-6-2009 at 10:30 am

  3. GREEN
    GREED
    BREED
    BLEED
    BLEND
    BLOND
    BLOWN
    BROWN

    posted by lbg on 11-6-2009 at 11:03 am

  4. whoops that’s wrong!

    posted by lbg on 11-6-2009 at 11:12 am

  5. green
    greet
    great
    groat
    groan
    grown
    brown

    Oh it’s the same as BB’s :)

    posted by Amanda on 11-6-2009 at 12:48 pm

  6. Green
    Greed
    Breed
    Bread
    Broad
    Brood
    Broon
    Brown

    Definitions of Broon: 1) The colour brown; Of the colour brown 2)Newcastle Brown Ale, a well known brand of brown ale beer.

    posted by Valerie on 11-6-2009 at 1:08 pm

  7. Brown
    Grown
    Grewn
    Green

    “Grewn” is the English pronunciation of the German word for green. (Hey, if Valerie gets to have Broon, I get to have Grewn.)

    posted by loomis on 11-6-2009 at 1:17 pm

  8. Here’s the first solution I came up with:

    GREEN
    GREED
    CREED
    CREW’D
    CROWD
    CROWN
    BROWN

    I didn’t know if that would fly, but around here, apparently, anything goes… *wink*

    posted by Kevin on 11-6-2009 at 1:40 pm

  9. Green
    Groan
    Grown
    Brown

    posted by Amanda on 11-25-2009 at 4:02 pm

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