02/11/03’s illustrious band:

WATER2WINE

Brought to you by a word game I remembered while driving home last night.

The rules of the game are simple: Pick two words that have opposite meanings and turn one into the other. Change one letter at a time to make a real word that you can change into another and another until you’ve mutated the first word into the second.

The example I recalled was changing WATER into WINE. My method involves deleting a letter, which isn’t allowed in some versions of the game, but what the heck. Here’s the formula:

WATER — change the T to D to become
WADER — change the A to I to become
WIDER — change the R to, uh, the absence of R to become
WIDE — change the D to N to become
WINE

Simple, see?

By the same method (without deletions), I can change LEAD into GOLD in 3 steps. Can you?

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