Word ladder The game was revived in Australia in the 1990s by The Canberra Times as "Stepword". The player is given a "start word" and an "end word". In order to win the game, the player must change the start word into the end word progressively, creating an existing word at each step. Each step consists of a single letter substitution. For example, the following are the seven shortest solutions to the word ladder puzzle between words "cold" and "warm", using words from Collins Scrabble Words. Often word ladder puzzles are created where the "end word" has some kind of relationship with
Longest words If conjugated forms are allowed, even longer real words can be made. Allowing derivatives and clitics allows the already lengthy word to grow even longer, although the usability of the word starts to degrade. Because Finnish uses free forming of composite words, new words can even be formed during a conversation. One can add nouns after each other without breaking grammar rules. If one allows artificial constructs as well as using clitics and conjugated forms, one can create even longer words: such as (102 letters), which was created by Artturi Kannisto. The longest non-compound (a single stem with prefixes and