Word Games
04/07/2004 02:30 p.m.
When I was a youngster, one of my favorite games we played on rainy or boring days was to see who of my siblings and I could find the most words (they had to be over two letters) from an assigned main word. I was looking at altruism the other day, not trying to choose the most, but the ones that jumped out at me with meaning at the time, or interested me in relation to the whole from the main one.

Or the sounds, if not the actual spelling of the words was there, although we didn’t play it that way. Here are a few. This, and scramble in the newspaper, and Probe, a game with a tray in which you placed letter cards turned upside down and made words, were my favorites. I wasn’t too fond of Scrabble, or Crossword Puzzles, (sorry trademark companies) because I found them long and drawn out.

Altruism

tail
ail
truism
aim
rut
rat
stir
salt
last
mist
list
lit
liar
rust
trial
slam
lust
and the more cheating ones

tru

all true
altur
li
latur
and with a stretch and a few additions of consonants, we could have trust and mistrust