One of the earliest games I learnt in school was word-building. Vimala Miss, my teacher at Hymamshu Jyothi Kala Peetha, told the game helped in improving our vocabulary. She used to play the game with us most of the days before the last period got over. And every time, we started, she used to tell: “Children, this game is ideal for holidays or as a diversion on class trips. Come on, Krishnan, start…”
On my way to office today morning, I was dissecting the word WEBLOG, trying to build a few words out of it. And I thought this could make a good activity out here.
So folks, how many words (2 letters and above) can you build out of the word ‘WEBLOG’? Perhaps 20!…or 40…or more?! Time limit: 30 mins.
Your time starts NOW. Happy word building.
Update: ANSWERS in the Comments section.
Rambling with Bellur 
August 31, 2007 at 9:09 pm
1. Globe
2. Blow
3. Bow
4. Blew
5. Bel
6. Beg
7. Bog
8. Web
9. Log
10. Gel
11. Low
12. Glow
13. Glob
14. Leo
15. Owe
Ah! Learned good new words. That’s all for now. Will think more while having dinner.
Bye.
August 31, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Nobody copy my answers!!!
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WEB
LOG
GLOBE
BOWEL
LEG
GOBEL?
BOW
LOWE 😉
BLEW
hmm…
ok btw this is the game of anagrams. The game of word building that I knew of was like anthakshari, you have a word and the next person has to say a word starting with the last letter or something like that.
August 31, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I used to love this game 😀 Will come back if I have time and take a shot 😀
September 1, 2007 at 7:47 am
web
be
go
low
elbow
blow
below
globe
September 1, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Web , log, weblog, blog, globe, bog, lobe, gob, lob, wob, beg, low , loe, loge, gole, gel, wog, …
September 1, 2007 at 12:08 pm
“Your comment is awaiting moderation” ???
Its mee sir , bachodi.. not a spammer
September 1, 2007 at 4:53 pm
web
glow
blow
low
log
bog
ogle
blew
blow
gel
leg
beg
blog
elbow
bow
lob.
September 2, 2007 at 1:44 am
Sure I will take this test…
September 2, 2007 at 5:12 am
Woke up early, everything quiet around here . To top it, I LOVE word games, of any sort. All right here we go.
WEBLOG
Web
Log
Blog
Ogle
Blew
Blow
Below
Low
Bow
Gel
Leg
Beg
Bog
Gob
Lobe
Owl
Owe
Woe
Globe
Elbow
Glow
Glob
Bowleg
23 words. I am done. 🙂
September 2, 2007 at 5:31 pm
This reminded me the game scrabble. well, Let me try building some.. at the first shot
–WEBLOG–(without using one letter more than once)
1. blog
2. web
3. log
4. go
5. be
6. we
7. glow
8. blow
9. globe
10.elbow
11.blew
12.low
13.beg
14.bog
15.leg
16.leo
September 3, 2007 at 4:07 am
Got 15 in 90 seconds! Will keep going ….
September 3, 2007 at 4:11 am
Make that 20 words now – two of them are five-letter words (which I’m very proud of) and one is a proper name.
September 3, 2007 at 4:43 am
25 words so far. will email them to you
September 3, 2007 at 4:48 am
28 words, but i’m over the time limit now …
September 3, 2007 at 8:10 am
We
Lo
Go
Woe
Bog
Wog
Glow
Low
Gob
Owl
Owe
Lobe
Bow
Globe
Ogle
Blow
Bowl
Elbow
Oleg
Leg
Web
Lob
Log
Be
Beg
Glob
Ole
Ego
Blog
Gel
30 words.
September 3, 2007 at 8:16 am
dear all,
lovely to see so many words in the list. will post the answers shortly.
September 3, 2007 at 8:52 am
Answers to Word Building with ‘WEBLOG’
1. WE
2. WEB
3. WOE
4. WOB
5. ELBOW
6. EGO
7. BLOW
8. BLEW
9. BOWL
10. BELOW
11. BOWEL
12. BLOG
13. BOG
14. BEG
15. BOW
16. BOWE
17. BE
18. BOWLEG
19. LOG
20. LOW
21. LOBE
22. LEG
23. LOB
24. LO
25. OGLE
26. OWL
27. OWE
28. GO
29. GEL
30. GLOW
31. GLOBE
32. GOBEL
33. OLE
34. LOWE
35. LEO
36. LEGO
37. LOE
38. GOB
39. LOGE
40. GEO
41. GLOB
42. WOG
September 4, 2007 at 10:35 pm
wow incredible to see the answer! 🙂
September 6, 2007 at 9:27 am
cooooooooooooooooooooooool
August 8, 2008 at 6:38 am
we
go
ow
be
lo
el
bog
gob
bow
glow
low
owl
bowl
blow
glow
log
leg
gel
bel
bole
globe
elbow
blow
ego
web
below
woe
ole
bog
gob
blew
bowel