I've done something similar, but those words don't look familiar, and I definitely don't have the answer figured out yet.

TM

Oh good. Hope you enjoy playing with them.

Cynthia

Ooo, this will be a good one to put on the whiteboard at work!!

Nancy.

Hmmmmmmmm, must think on this.

Annette

Okay, while you are thinking, there are a couple of clues in my post today.

Cynthia

I think I see what it might be, but I'll keep my answer vague so as not to give it away.

TM

I'm thinking but have never been very good at these types of questions.

My DH, a competitive Scrabble club player, and I have come up with two things these words have in common.

2. I think it may be this one which is more complex with sour being the most difficult.
1. This one is simpler and simpler is often the one most noted so maybe I should change my answer.

Cyn, your story was funny and didn't bore me. Part of the fun is searching for the clues in your posts. I found at least four.

Aha, scrabble, making new words out of old words :).

Annette

You are all SO much fun to play with!

So my thought is that each of the two syllable words can be made into a one syllable word by adding a letter or maybe two.

VAGUE, WAVE, DRUGGED, BOAT, VOLE, DRAGGED, SNAKED, and SOURCE

I couldn't come up with any new one syllable word for sour by adding only one letter, so I had to add two. Maybe there's a word I didn't think of. I'm not even positive that sour is a two syllable word, but I kept saying it to myself, and I guess it is.

So, right or wrong, that's my guess.

TM

The two things we found in common were

2. Two syllable words turn into one syllable words with the addition of one or two letters.
VAGUE, HAVE, DRUGGED, BOAR, HOLE, DRAGGED, SNAKED, and
SOURCE

1. All can be made into a new word with the addition of just one letter.
VAGUE, SAVE, DRUGGED, BOAT, POLE, DRAGGED, SNAKED, and
SOURS

My answer is the same as TM's--two syllables to one syllable.

I rejected all the one letter additions that I tried in my mind this afternoon. After reading TM's comment tonight/early morning I Goggled all one letter additions to sour and came up with sourt.

Sourt:
a shoot or bud
a gushing of a liquid, ie: blood from a wound

None of the four dictionaries cited included a pronunciation or a syllable notation so I don't know if this is a one syllable word pronounced with a long o or if it is pronounced sour with the t sound on the end making it a two syllable word.

This was a fun question, Cynthia, and your clues gave me direction. Thanks.

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Four stars for TM and Bobbie! All the words are two-syllable wors that become one-sylllable words with the addition of one or more letters. In addition to vague, ague can become plague, ave can become, for example,have or cave or wave. Some others: ole/sole, ole/whole, rugged/shrugged.

Thanks for playing. If the late sleepers Nancy and Annette had it, but you just didn't get back to spell it out ;), let me know. I am very liberal when it comes to doling out stars (oooh, dole works for ole, too-cool).

Happy Sunday all.

Cynthia

ps. humph-finally was able to actually give you stars, but can't seem to line them up in a nice row. Next week's trivia: What are the odds that Cynthia will ever figure this out?

Nope, no stars for me :(.

Annette

lol. Nancy forgot to take her sheet to work with her, then got preoccupied when she got home. I never would have figured these out!! Good mental exercise, though. Like the word jumbles in the newspaper, and I'm not great a those either!!

Nancy.