Friday puzzle

[flexagon]

Sitting in a meeting this morning, I played a simple word game with a
piece of paper that happened to be in front of me. Your mission,
should you choose to accept it: make sense of the lists below and tell
me what game I was playing.

1) amen, men, man, mane, mean
2) hop, hope, nope, pone, hoe, ho, oh, peon
3) ax, fa
4) lull, arc, curl, rule, race, ace, lace, cell, cruel, cellar, rue, lure
5) lame, male, meal, ale, Leia, Liam, ail, aim

Comments

[heisenbug]

Oh, all right: you were playing "How can I entertain myself using only the words on this contact information form?"

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Loving the icon.

[heisenbug]

Thanks... it was a gift from Flexagon.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm not sure? It looks like you are seeing how long of a string of words you can get by removing and/or adding one letter and maybe rearranging. Except that peon breaks that trend. Hmm.

[flexagon]

Hint: the order of the words in each line doesn't matter. :)

Answer in rot-13, decode when you want it:
V jnf frrvat ubj znal jbeqf V pbhyq znxr bhg bs gur jbeqf ba n pbagnpg sbez: anzr cubar snk pryyhyne rznvy.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

basically what heisenbug said. anzr/cubar/snk/pryyhyne/rznvy, jbeqf gung pna or znqr jvgu gur yrggref va rnpu. v unir gb nqzvg jura v ybbxrq ng guvf n srj qnlf ntb v pbhyqa'g trg vg, ohg gbqnl vg znqr frafr.

and nice use of rot-13 :). now i will decode your answer.