Andrew, Ruby, and I just finished wading through this one a few minutes ago:
Here are the rules for this round:
- Minimum word length: five letters
- No plurals created by adding s
- Maximum words per player per day: five
- No time limit
Remember, please: Five words per player per day.
Thanks!
learned, dagger, ragged, badger, rabid
crane, leaned, sander, cadre, seared
Only five words? Ah, that makes it fair!
bigger, cornea, caned, caged, cigar
earned, genre, raged, nagged, dragger
cadge, cider, raider, render, corner
Okay, no adding ‘s’ to a word to make it plural. But how about removing or adding suffixes or prefixes to words already used?
learn, cornered, badge, bagged, digger
Funny, Peter, I had never thought of a badger as an animal that badges…
lender, sorer, acorn, abide, nacre
You’re up and around early, Pauline. Unless the time stamp is in the Pacific time zone.
It’s getting harder! canard, saner, garden, gardener, barer.
I see a few more, but it will have to wait.
I’m guessing it must be Pacific time, then, because I certainly wasn’t up at 4:13. I got up shortly before 6 when the puppy refused to let me sleep any longer. After walking her I came back in and posted here. Which didn’t take long, because I had my post all ready since last night, just waiting until the new day so I could submit five more words.
Yup, time stamp is two hours behind. My computer says it is 7:45 PM, the post I just wrote says 5:44 PM.
craned, nagger, reran, rabic (pertaining to rabies), genera (plural of genus)
I guess it’s just the two of us, Pauline! And this is Mark’s blog!
Regard, carer, corder, cadger, enraged (which I hope is not what Mark becomes when he sees we have taken over this thread!)
Ahoy, Peter! Consider your hope fulfilled.
Yesterday morning you finally posted the one I’ve been waiting to see: gardener.
I just checked and didn’t see this one yet: bagger.
I wonder if cragged is a word. Lemme check dictionary.com — yup.
I’m resorting to trying out possible combinations of letters at dictionary.com now. A few turn out to be real words. And when they don’t, it suggests similar words, some of which turn out to be in the puzzle.
cornage: An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn
orenda: A supernatural force believed by the Iroquois Indians to be present, in varying degrees, in all objects or persons, and to be the spiritual force by which human accomplishment is attained or accounted for
biggen: To make or become big; to enlarge [Obs. or Dial.]
saran: a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe. (formerly a trademark)
agger: 1. Also called double tide. Oceanography. a. a high tide in which the water rises to a certain level, recedes, then rises again. b. a low tide in which the water recedes to a certain level, rises slightly, then recedes again. 2. (in ancient Roman building) an earthen mound or rampart, esp. one having no revetment
Interesting, Pauline. I wondered if there is an adjective form of cornage with a ‘d’ on the end, would would get another word for us, but there is not. All I find are the words we all know. Last night, I found a few more, but had to wait until this morning:
enrage (actually found that yesterday, but used the participle form first), garner, garnered, order, darner
Mark- Thanks for this. When I can get my family to play Boggle, I usually get a list of 20 or so three and four letter words. I rarely take the time to look for longer ones, since those three minutes go by so quickly.
Wow! I found another word I know. Though I suppose not everyone knows it – it’s arcane, if you see what I mean.
Ooh, Pauline! Your word got me looking, now I see ARCADE!
Have we exhausted the five or more letter possibilities? I know there are several shorter words (and four letter words that become five with the ‘s’).
OK, Peter and Pauline (and everybody else out there), let’s add any other fives you see, including four-letter words that become five with the s tacked on). The limit is still five per day per person, of course.
What I meant so say is — now you may add four-letter words (but still observe the exclusion of plurals made by adding s) — and you may also now add to this particular game five-letter words that are actually four-letter words + s.
Does that make more sense?
barn, nears
There are at least 11 words above that are four letter words with suffixes added. Which five should I put first? Or should we suffice it to say there are those 11?
Just from the words I used above: cane, cage, sane, bare, care
sore, core
I should do a comment with all the words used so far, sorted alphabetically.