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Stephen Sniderman created this feature. He is professor of English at Youngstown State University, contributing editor to Games magazine and Games World of Puzzles, and author of Language LoversWord Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2002) and Stanley Newman Presents Grid Play (Random House, 2003).  
WORDS WORLD  

Some words, like WORDS and WORLD, share enough letters in the same order (WORD) to be called soul mates, whatever their dissimilarities in pronunciation, meaning, or origin. In each item below, you are given the soul mate of each key word of a familiar movie title. To change a capitalized word to its soul mate, drop one letter from it, then add another letter in a different place in the word. In #1, for example, drop the L in APPLY and add an H before the A to make HAPPY. Then drop the A at the end of FETA and place an E before the T to make FEET. How many titles can you figure out?

To discover the answer, click once on a letter below. Doubleclick to return to the original puzzle.

For a printer-friendly file with more WORDS WORLD, click on the link below. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.

 
   

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