Words from a word.

[Buttercup]

I like playing this little game during bits of free time. An example:

Time

Mite
Met
I'm
Me
It
E.M.T. (emergency medical technician)

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Big or small word: Post 1 word and what other words you can "get" from it.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Buttercup:

butt
but
butter
cup
tuber
put
putter
cut
cutter
cute

[dwnielsen]

This is one I like to do to! Here's one I found from a while back (with ordered letters)...

Magic word frsiaplanctus

unus
anus
punctus
iunctus
uncus
acus
unctus
actus
fractus
fructus
pactus
fucus
fluctus
factus
funus
prunus
lacus
functus
planus
planctus
flatus
luctus
ructus
lucus
incus
ritus
litus
putus
latus
ictus
sucus
sinus
situs
salus
aptus
ratus
raptus
pus
plus
sic
fas
sanctus

[cosmocrazy]

on

no

[Buttercup]

Good responses so far. Wow, dwnielsen, that beats anything I've yet come up with.

[mahesh]

This is one I like to do to! Here's one I found from a while back (with ordered letters)...

Magic word frsiaplanctus
...
sanctus

...and ... rictus! Ha!
..and...c'mon, not exhausted yet..

[Buttercup]

Olive

Live
Love
Veil
Oil
Vie
Lie
Vol.
Vile

[Swift]

BAUT
tuba
tub
at
bat
tau
buta (you know, the stuff you put on bread )
a

[ABR.]

swift
sit
swit (Loretta)
wit
I
if
is
it
fist
fit
'tis

[jokergirl]

Garfield
field
rage
Rigel
drag
rad
dare
lead
deal
frag
far
grief
gal
gel
geld
gear
GIF
agile
alder
grid
fir
fed
fridge
flag
fled
fig
fag
rife
rifle
idle
dale
ale
fail
rail
lair
flair
glare
fair
lie
die
grade
fade
fad
frail
Lager
lad
idle
if
LED (or led)
arid
are
fare
real
dear
fear
ride
flare
flared
defrag
fragile
deaf
leaf
rig
red
dire
fire
fired
file
filed
fled
glade
glad
large
lard
era
elf
rid

I'm sure there's more. I did this in German once and got well over 100 words. Can you think of anything I missed?

[Buttercup]

That's impressive, jokergirl!

Pizza

Pi
Pia
Zip
Zap

Guess that does it.

[mike alexander]

ABR.

bar
bra

[Buttercup]

Mike.

Mystic

My
Tic
City
Sit
Cyst
Mist
It

[Nick Theodorakis]

Vader

dear
dare
ear
are
era
rave
aver
raved
read
red

And for a bonus, a complete anagram of "buttercup vader:"

"Cut a pervert, bud."

Nick

[Buttercup]

And for a bonus, a complete anagram of "buttercup vader:"

"Cut a pervert, bud."

:surprised Wow, how fitting!

butterfly

Flutter by
Bye
Flutter
Flute
Lute
Fly
Tub
Tube
Flub
Flu
Butt
Butte
Yet
Yule

[mahesh]

...for a bonus, a complete anagram of "buttercup vader:"

"Cut a pervert, bud."

Nick

Last year, some time...we had an anagram game here...nobody got / bothered with mine...my question...so it eroded and passed out into the BAUT 'archives' .

Mr Feynman went away, quietly.

[mahesh]

Hey 'cup Vader...there's another word game, akin to yours, in the newspapers.

One has nine letters and one of them would be the main one. This letter needs to be included in all the possible words made with the given nine letters. There are restrictions, in that, the minimum number of letters varies...three/four...

I'll go see if I can find one now...

edit:

Okay, here's one. These letters are in no particular order. Eight letters (not nine).

L A C A T R I G. The bold letter is to be used in all four- or more- lettered words. There is at least one word of eight letters.
Proper nouns not allowed.

'cup...sorry, hijack not intendid!

[dwnielsen]

Okay, an easy one...

mahesh

me
as
he's
heh
he
ma
ma's
Mae
Mae's
ash
mash
ah
ah's
ahh
eh
sh!

[jokergirl]

l a c a t r i g. The bold letter is to be used in all four- or more- lettered words. There is at least one word of eight letters.
Proper nouns not allowed.

tragical?

[Buttercup]

Hi Mahesh: Thank you, but unfortunately this sort of word game is about the only one I play.

[Buttercup]

Cereal

Real
Car
Eel
Leer
Carl
Ear
Reel
Are
Lace

[tdvance]

My full name is Todd Douglas Vance. It is too bad I'm not an archaeologist, because I can get:

Dug Advanced Tools.

Exordium:

medium
demur
mired
mixed
mixer
demo
dime
dire
dome
dorm
dour
drum
mire
mode
more
ride
rime
rode
rude
die
dim
mid
mix
mod
mud
our
red
rum
doe
roe
ore
due
ex
id
mu
or
ox
do
em
mi
me
om
xi
re
I

[mahesh]

That's nice cereal...'cupVader.

j/g...that looks about right...though I didn't check/follow up...next day. they usually grade the number of words extracted. Excellent being umpteen hundred words or something.

Buttercup, you like things English, don't you? From the Royalty, ...down.

I don't know if you know about this, or there may be an 'American' version of this game. It's played by two contestants, on television. Everyday for half an hour on Channel 4, here. It's been going on since early 1980s. Called Countdown. Almost an English, I should say, a British, institution.

One gets thirty seconds to make a word of as many letters as possible from a random call of nine letters. Another part, is a seemingly simple 'arithmetic' 30-seconds-foray. This uses a random selection of six high/low numbers, which one uses with the simple functions to arrive at a designated random answer.

And unsurprisingly, a very popular programme / game. Some people have made careers / celebrity out of it.

Well, I didn't realise, but last Saturday, while I was derailing your OP, I came across a site through Google to play exactly like one does on television, including the clock, ticking away.

edit:
So indulgent.

If you'd like a link...pm me...
I feel hesitant to link it here directly, for fear of flouting house rules.

edit edit:
Oh I forgot to mention...the nine letters are selected by the players...combination of vowels/consonants.

[Buttercup]

Sorry Mahesh, but thanks anyway; I generally only play this word game.

Train

Rain
Rat
In
Tin
Air
Nit (aka "silly")
Ran
Tar
It

[mahesh]

Apologies

Apologise

[chrissy]

Machiavellian

mall vein villa chain ache elan mill Liam chive machine hence ice
ave lane nail main van Milan lilac Liem alive lea nice mice
China live villian Maine evil Manilla avail hail lei vice mania Michael
vanilla cane cain chilli chime hill mail hale lance lice manic Michaela
Chile mane name claim clean male chin anvil mach mace lace mine
lava meal llama malice lame came chain lima anime lime line

*there is more, just don't have time to do more*

[cosmocrazy]

cosmocrazy
so
cram
crams
scar
scram
scam
ray
say
may
yam
cam
cams
moor
room
zoom
soma
zac
soya
mary
roy
coco
coca
cosy
rosy
coy
coma
mars
moo
am
sam
ram
roam
arc
arcs
ay
arm

[Buttercup]

Wow, you guys are good!

Cranberry

Berry
Ran
Crab
Nary
Car
Care
Acre
Bare
Bear
Ace
Rare
Crane
An
Year
Brace
Race
Bean

[tdvance]

supercalifragelisticexpialidocious

super
fragile
list
(and a few thousand or so more)

[Buttercup]

orange

Range
Rang
Rage
Ran
Nag
Near
Ear
Ore
Organ
Gear
Gore