Exploring Word Chains

4D Golf

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[P]

Now combine the graphs with a rule of adding or removing a letter is also allowed, instead of swapping. Maybe there will be less islands then

[carykh]

7:15 I was so curious what the large 2nd island was gonna be - it makes sense that it's all the -ING words, since it's easy to go from XXXing to YYYing, but not any non-ing words!

[simple]

for 100% completeness the 1 letter words are all connected [ I and A]
they are both the start and end of the largest diameter ( I -> A or A ->I ) and they tie in largest degree at 1

[nyuh]

5:51 "care" being the most connected word is so poetic

[notwithouttext]

1:40 of these words, the ones i know are:
aa - some type of lava
qi - chinese natural force or something
xu - a vietnamese currency
cwm - cirque (in welsh)
brrr - onomatopoeia for shivering
zzzs - multiple zzz sounds, onomatopoeia for sleep
crwth - some instrument (also from welsh)
yclad - clothed, clad
miaou - french spelling of "meow"

[sawarinyan]

1:32 Miaou is how we do the cats noises in French! The Meow equivalent!

[MooImABunny]

5:35 funny that isle is within one of the islands.
The word isle had the s put in for actual historical reasons, but later they added an s to island because they thought it was related to isle. It wasn't.

[ebrdsht]

imagine coming home from school and telling your dad about a game you learned only for him to get just as, if not more, into it than you are. its so so so sweet

[IcelyPuzzles]

this concept of word manipulation has interested me for a while and if anyone is looking for more stuff like this, there's an online game called Wordward Draw about changing a 4-letter word letter by letter (and also the steam game Lingo which is a rule discovery word puzzle game with a large amount of 'word changing' functions).

one of the chain types that I want to see, and I don't know if anyone's ever done, is doing this but with synonyms or antonyms, like what's the farthest (fair) seeming synonym or antonym chain? one interesting puzzle like this I wrote was 'RAISE -> FOLD -> DECREASE -> RAISE' which I think is an incredible antonym cycle (using a different pair of meanings for each one in the cycle). also I just want to say I really appreciate the visualization in this video :)

[cobaltbluesky]

idk if this is adressed later but the one at 0:48 you can go aim -> arm -> are -> age

[Minty]

“Orgy” and “sexy ”being all alone is quite ironic

[nathanael.higgerson]

0:21 CBT is real, I do it every day 😤

[donotdew]

0:22 oh trust me CBT is *definitely* a word

[tird_boi]

I actually had this idea as a kid. A few months ago, I wrote a script that found the shortest chain between any 2 words. In all 49, 995, 000 combinations of the 10, 000 most common English words, the longest shortest chain I found was 26 long (actually, there was a many-way tie): having -> saving -> saying -> staying -> stating -> seating -> eating -> mating -> making -> baking -> biking -> hiking -> hiring -> firing -> fixing -> mixing -> mining -> dining -> diving -> living -> loving -> losing -> posing -> posting -> postings. Looking at it now, it's a bit strange that they're all 6-7 letter words. Maybe there was a mistake in my code, or the solution happens to be this way.

[ianweckhorst]

the most fun thing about my name is it actually hails from a 3 generation word chain, my grandpa is Don, my dad is Dan, and I am Ian, I've long pondered on what to name my kid if I wanted to continue that

[DrakiniteOfficial]

Wow, it's so great that you were able to get your son interested in network theory by nerding out about a game he learned!
By the way, nice touch adding emoji each time you read out a word. Helps out when it's a word that not everyone might remember.

[jblen]

It's so nice your sons curiosity influenced this project. The fact he wanted to challenge himself with harder words is a good sign for his future, and tackling the problem rather than just going 'it's too complex' is setting a great example. I still don't know if I want to be a parent at all but this is the kind of parent I want to be.

[PianoMastR]

When I was like 12, I tried to start an email chain that was exactly this except I allowed you to add or remove letters. They still had to be real words. The chain never took off, but I still loved the idea

[AsiccAP]

CBT is definitely not a word but i feel like ive heard of it before



Edit: Dang, no way I got more likes than carykh and icely puzzles. Go like their comments, their comments are way more relevant to the video lmao, and icely proposes an alternate ruleset for the game. Also watch their videos, cary makes cool videos and projects, and icely does puzzles (duh).

[Ryco]

Fun coincidence that the connection power of "care" is so strong ❤