What's the shortest change from EDDY to WHIP?
E D D Y
1.
E D G Y
2.
E G G Y
3.
E G G S
4.
E R G S
5.
E R R S
6.
E A R S
7.
W A R S
8.
W A R T
9.
W A I T
10.
W H I T
11.
W H I P
EDDY -> WHIP in
11.
It can probably be done in less... steps one through seven are rather
inelegant. I think seven through eleven are pretty good, though.
EDDY is a nasty, nasty word to start with. I spent half the time just looking for
EDGY to get out of it. The only other word you can get out of it with is, as far as I could determine,
EDDA, which is a questionably legitimate word and
goes nowhere,
fast.