# Growing word game

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/growing-word-game/73448>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [December 16, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/growing-word-game/73448 "2004-12-16T14:19:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ben\_H](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ben_h/32/939_2.png) [@Ben\_H](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ben_H)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/growing-word-game/73448/1 "2004-12-16T14:19:32Z")

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Hey, I saw this on another forum. The thread starts off with a person posting a one letter word, then the next person adds a letter, it carries on with people adding, removing and changing letters to make new words.

E.g:

a  
an  
in  
it  
bit  
bite  
mite  
smite  
etc…

**Rules:**  
You can only add or remove one letter, for words up to 5 letters you can change one letter, above 5 letters you can change two!  
EDIT: If you change a letter, you can use an anagram of the word!

Let’s start!

I’ll go with:

I