Will you help me tweak/play this game? →[More:]It's a game that uses the Thesaurus in Microsoft Word. The concept is pretty easy, but the challenge may prove otherwise. Basically, if I give you the challenge "dog -> bug (par 4)", you have to use the synonyms and the "Look up" button to get from word A to word B in the least amount of moves. So for this example the answer would be "dog > plague > disease > bug", where every ">" is a hit of the "Look up" button. So, sorta like golf, a 3 here would be a birdie, a 4 a par, and anything over 4 here would be a bogey, double bogey, etc. For these purposes here, only choose from the first 5 choices (so it doesn't get too difficult).

Also, maybe there's a better usage than Word. I tried to find a web page that would work better, but couldn't. The reason the Word Thesaurus works so well is that it gives a limited amount of synonyms. I guess ideally this would be some thing to create in Flash or whatever. This seems like it'd be fun, but I've never really tried it with anyone.

I hope this all makes sense...