The contestant then changed the letter, and won ВЈ10 if the new word did not match either opponent's prediction. Both opponents then secretly wrote down their predictions of the word they thought the contestant would make. The contestant in control chose one four-letter word from a group of four, then selected one letter to change. One little incident from the 1988 Christmas Special when Chris Tarrant Chose No.1 and the host giving ZARF and then changed to BARF, ZORF, ZANF & LARF (These funny words are not allowed in the dictionary), ITV corrected it out and replaced by STUD.Д¬ontestants played in descending order of their scores from Round 1. If a word was invalid, the letter change was undone. At each step, the contestant had to call out both the letter being changed and its replacement, then say and spell the new word. Words had to appear in the Longman Dictionary of the English Language ( Chambers English Dictionary in later series) in order to be valid. SALE to MALE to MILE was allowed, but SALE to MALE to TALE was not.)Д®ach valid word added ВЈ5 to the contestant's score. Proper nouns and plurals were not allowed, and the contestant could not change the same letter position on consecutive plays. Each contestant chose one of four hidden four-letter words and had 45 seconds to create as long a chain as possible by changing one letter at a time.

The first round was entitled Chain Letters ( Make a Chain in the final and revival series). In Ted Robbins' season, they played for points in the main game. The words were generated by Wordsworth, the show's computer. The first player to score 20 and reach the end of the scoring track is the winner.Three contestants competed to win money by changing letters in words to make new words. The next player then can remove any number of old tiles required to create their new word. If enough tiles are used you will come back round to the first word created.

Play continues with players making new words and placing them around the track. Once a new word has been created, players can mark the start of this word by sliding the word marker round to its first letter.Д®very time a player uses tiles to create words, the number of tiles used is replaced from the bag and placed face up in the centre of the unit. Player one however loses 2 points as player two used 2 letters of her word so she must move her scoring peg back 2 spaces. He scores 6 points for the word вЂORANGEвЂ™ and moves his scoring peg 6 spaces. Player two then creates вЂORANGEвЂ™, by using the last 2 letters of вЂMOTORвЂ™ and taking tiles A, N, G, E from the centre of the unit.

The player then moves her scoring peg along by the number of letters in the word she has created.ДЇOR EXAMPLE: If the first player creates the word вЂMOTORвЂ™ she places the letters around the outer track and scores 5 (moving her scoring peg 5 spaces). Once she has thought up a word using the available letters, she picks up the tiles and places them around the edge of the unit. She has to create a word using the letters in the centre of the unit. Each player selects a coloured peg and places it into the 1st hole in the matching coloured scoring track nearest them. Randomly select 24 tiles and place them face up in to the middle of the unit. Place the unit in the centre of the players. Points are gained for each letter put down on the unit but lost if used by the next player in creating their new word. The aim of the game is to be the first player to reach the end of the coloured scoring track, scoring 20 points.

Words in a letter chain