A Survey of Directed Word Chains

Authors

Leonard Gordon

Abstract

The idea of making chains by overlapping words is due to H. E. Dudeney, and is probably a follow-on of Lewis Carroll's word ladders. Dudeney used words of uniform length and constant overlap. Christopher McManus introduced Word Ways readers in November 1990 to Ana-Gram-mar (AGM) chains, ones in which the word length may vary, but there is always single overlap (each letter appears in exactly two words): house-man-slaughter-house, and gossy-pol-yester-morning-tide-water.

Recommended Citation

Gordon, Leonard (1993) "A Survey of Directed Word Chains," Word Ways: Vol. 26 : Iss. 1 , Article 15.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol26/iss1/15