BlackDog's Word Whirl Game

Word Whirl Game 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:

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.
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

You may print the games to play off-line. To do that, after the game has loaded in your web browser, click "File" then "Print" - or, follow your web browser's directions on how to print a web page. If you don't want to print out all the extras at the bottom of the page the game is on, choose to print one page only.

By default web browsers will add the date, page number and URL to any page printed from the Internet. For most (if not all) of the printables on this site, you probably don't want text at the top and bottom of the page. Luckily it's pretty easy to fix. Click here for instructions on how to remove the page information from your printables.

That's it. Have fun!

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