World of Word Ladders - Volume 2 : Over 100 word puzzles (also known as doublets or laddergrams) to test or improve spelling, vocabulary and thinking skills

Word ladders are a wonderful pastime. These puzzles are neither tough nor easy. They have the right balance between exercising the brain and having fun. They can challenge a kid's thinking ability, spelling skills and vocabulary. For an adult, they are pure fun.

What are Word Ladders: A word ladder has a word on the first and last rungs. The blanks on the middle rungs are for you to complete.

• One and only one letter needs to change in each blank rung of the ladder so that the first word is transformed into the last word.
• None of the words you write can be a proper noun (name of people, places and such), abbreviation (short forms) or a non-English foreign word (loan word). Foreign-origin words that have gone native are all right. An example is lat, which stands for the latissimus dorsi muscle.
• If you can solve the ladder with less number of words than given in the ladder, consider that as a win.

In this book

• You can go through this word ladder book several times. Just use a pencil and eraser.
• Next to each word ladder is its solution. The solution is obscured to protect the challenge. You may need to use a hand lens to decipher it.
• There is a glossary of obscure words at the end of the book for your reference.