Breakdown

Please enjoy today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Think Thursday challenge:

By removing one letter from the mix at each step, and rearranging the others as necessary to form new words, reduce the word "COMPILED" to the letter "O." C O M P I L E D _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ O

Here is one SOLUTION.

ONE SOLUTION:

C O M P I L E D
M E L O D I C
D O C I L E
O I L E D
I D O L
O L D
L O
O

Did you come up with an alternate sequence of words? Feel free to share them in the comments below, and thanks for playing!