It’s a bit of a climb, but with Sam Trabucco to guide you, you’ll enjoy every step of your ascent. Or descent. By Helen T. Verongos SUNDAY PUZZLE — Several months ago, in my earliest days as a ...

In a previous post, I dealt with word ladders, the puzzle genre invented by Lewis Carroll. As you might recall, you are given two words, with steps in between, as in a ladder. For example, there are ...

This week's challenge: The challenge is to create the shortest possible word ladder connecting LARGE to SMALL, changing one letter at a time, making a common, uncapitalized word each step of the way.