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Now let's turn our attention
to the Word Ladder puzzle.

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So in Word Ladder, we have
a set of-- a big grid,

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a bunch of clues on the right,
a couple of colored squares

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that correspond to the answer key
you'll see in the puzzle itself.

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And we're told that we
can progress from one word

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to the next changing only
one letter at a time.

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Now it's possible to solve
this puzzle going from the top

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down, from the bottom up, starting
in the middle and then figuring out.

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We're just going to
go from the top down.

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But there are, of course, many different
ways that you could approach this one.

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So we start with the word lend.

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And we're told that if
we change one letter,

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we can get a word that
means flex slightly.

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Well, that's bend.

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A musical group is a band.

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A beach fine would be sand.

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Spoken is said.

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A wind catcher-- this one might
have been a little bit trickier,

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but that's a sail.

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Loam, that's soil.

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Heat in water is to boil.

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Timber to Jacques-- that's
another sort of a tricky clue.

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What this one's trying to get you
to guess was the word for wood

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in French, as somebody named
Jacques might be, and that's bois.

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A Jewish ceremony is bris.

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A military prison is a
brig. To boast is to brag.

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A spoiled one would be a brat.

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Rhythm is beat.

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To carry or hold is to bear something.

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An alcoholic beverage, in
this case, might be beer.

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A soothsayer is another word
for fortune teller or a seer.

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To burn or scorch
something is to sear it.

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To render something
impervious is to seal it.

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Not fictional is real.

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500 sheets or another term for
that is a ream, such as a paper.

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To have wanderlust
means you want to roam.

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An enclosure might be a room.

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A sonic effect would be a boom.

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Some sturdy footwear-- boot.

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A pirate's quest--
they're looking for loot.

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To be disoriented is to be lost.

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If something is terminal, it is last.

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And an ensemble might be a cast.

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And then finally, we can
go from cast to cash.

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And then, if we just basically line
up all of the color-coded letters

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that we see in the answer, we
find that the word is coinage.

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