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
Latin word order approval: He notes that the sentence would be ruined rhythmically if the word order of the last three words were changed to "comprobavit fili temeritas". What was apparently admired here was the clausula of "comprobavit" with its double trochaic – u – – rhythm; whereas "temeritas" would make a rhythm of u u u –, which Cicero says would produce an unsatisfying effect in Latin, despite being recommended by Aristotle. The 1st-century A.D. teacher of oratory, Quintilian, remarks that hyperbaton (switching words round) is often used to make a sentence more euphonious. He gives the example of the following sentence