| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER $200: These two creatures are only one letter different but not really similar otherwise lion & loon |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES $800: Change one letter:
One is part of the British Isles, the other is an Atlantic isle Ireland & Iceland |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $200: Enjoyment for an ardent sports follower fun & fan (fan fun) |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $400: A jacket for a young male horse coat & colt (a colt coat) |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $600: Misplaced plunder lost loot |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $800: A distant paddle far & oar (a far oar) |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER WORD PAIRS $1000: A structure to store grain covered in fabric made by larvae silo & silk (silk silo) |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE STATE OF DENIAL $1000: Change one letter in "refuse" to get this, meaning to prove a statement or theory to be wrong refute |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS $2,016 (Daily Double): Change one letter in Google's mobile phone operating system to get this type of non-liquid barometer aneroid |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $200: A princess of Wales & a portrayer of Annie Hall Diana & Diane |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $400: A 1980s New York governor & a 2000s first lady of California Mario & Maria |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $600: A scat-singing jazz legend of the 1940s & an Aussie supermodel who had "The Body" of the 1980s Ella & Elle |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $800: Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby" Alex & Alec |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $1000: "Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov Andrew & Andrei |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | RECENT NEWS $200: Facebook announced its stock ticker name would change to MVRS & its corporate name would become this 4-letter one Meta |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CHANGE-ONE-LETTER PAIRS $400: Trousers sections pants parts |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CHANGE-ONE-LETTER PAIRS $800: The poorer quality Appaloosa a worse horse |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CHANGE-ONE-LETTER PAIRS $1200: Hobbit homeland beach Shire shore |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CHANGE-ONE-LETTER PAIRS $1600: A desolate, unornamented pile of pancakes a stark stack |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | CHANGE-ONE-LETTER PAIRS $2000: The press agent carries a personal bottle of booze flack flask |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | CORPORATE JARGON $800: In basketball this 5-letter word means to turn while keeping one foot on the floor; in business it means "change direction" pivot |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: The act of renouncing the throne abdication |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | CHANGE A LETTER $1200: With a change of just one letter, to burn slightly becomes a single-named superstar singer/actress char & Cher |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | CHANGE A LETTER $1600: A word meaning of short duration turns very sad as one denoting sharp sorrow over a death brief & grief |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: A painful, spasmodic contraction of a muscle turns into a tool to fasten objects together cramp & clamp |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $600: A fold in the center of your pant leg goes into the changing room & exits as an oily lubricant crease & grease |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: Planet No. 2 changes one letter & becomes a place where an event is held Venus to venue |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $2,000 (Daily Double): A word meaning to try hard tries hard & changes a letter to take one long step strive & stride |
| #8119, aired 2019-12-19 | ABOUT [TYPE]FACE $1000: Change one letter in the word "future" to get this font created in the '20s & used by tech companies like Cisco Futura |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | CHANGE 1 LETTER OF THE 5 $800: One is from bad luck; the other from good fortune sling & bling |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | CHANGE 1 LETTER OF THE 5 $1200: With one letter change, a word meaning "beneath" goes beneath a cow under & udder |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | CHANGE 1 LETTER OF THE 5 $1600: One inanimate, one human: they're the pair seen here clamp & champ |
| #7686, aired 2018-01-29 | JAPANESE AUTHORS $2000: Change one of the digits of 1984 to a letter to get the title of this Orwellian Haruki Murakami novel 1Q84 |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SIMILARLY NAMED SCHOOLS $200: Lake Forest College is near Chicago; change one letter to get this North Carolina university Wake Forest |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: A toothed strip of plastic for arranging hair goes to its grave as a burial chamber comb & tomb |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: A word meaning to secretly & illegally import goods just wants to cuddle smuggle & snuggle |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1200: A word meaning to move hastily & with urgency becomes a classic wordplay board game Scrabble & scramble |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1600: It means to exert to the utmost, perhaps rowing on a narrow passage of water connecting 2 large bodies strain & strait |
| #6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $2000: An individual's style of speaking morphs into a class of literature that includes novels diction & fiction |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | WORDS OF WONDER $600: Change one letter in "wonder" & you get this synonym, meaning to consider thoughtfully ponder |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | WORDPLAY RANDOM SAMPLER $800: Change One Letter:
a first attempt at writing becomes a word meaning to float along, as on the sea (both responses, please) drift & draft |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | CHANGE A LETTER $800: Change one letter in "bathe" & you get this wood-shaping tool lathe |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $200: Change one letter in coin & it becomes this veggie corn |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: Change one letter in corn & make it this small rope cord |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $600: Change one letter in cord & make this feudal title lord |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: Change one letter in lord & make this verb meaning "to pack up" load |
| #5783, aired 2009-11-04 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1000: Change one letter in load & make this element lead |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $1000: Change one letter in Barry Manilow's last name to get this term for one of his fans a fanilow |
| #5557, aired 2008-11-04 | ESTRELLAS DEL BEISBOL $1200: Change one letter in "A-Rod" (Alex Rodriguez) to get this nickname of Francisco Rodriguez, for his strikeouts K-Rod |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: Why so this, sullenly dejected? Did you forget to bring this, an Elmer's specailty, to art class? glue & glum |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: You'll make the this, perhaps an A+, if you can dig deep & name this somber earth excavation grade & grave |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1200: Use your head to think of this body part & you'll get to this word, a girl's woven locks braid & brain |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1600: Change direction quickly with this 4-letter word into this one that precedes "sucker" in fashion veer & seer |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): "Begin" with this word; end with this one, meaning harsh or desolate, as a landscape start & stark |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $400: A stocking bag a sock sack |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $800: A sodium chloride auction a salt sale |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1200: A final printed series of names a last list |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $1600: A benevolently dispositioned male monarch a kind king |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | CHANGE ONE LETTER $2000: A speedy fair a fast fest |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | WORD UP! $400: Change your attitude, or rather one letter in attitude, to get this word meaning "height" altitude |
| #4212, aired 2002-12-17 | CAN WE TALK? $600: Change one letter in yabber, Australian for "to talk foolishly", & you get this, "to talk rapidly" jabber |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL $2000: Change one letter in the name of a striped mammal to get this type of lizard seen here a skink |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $100: ...in pink, a color, to get this serving size for, say, pink lemonade pint |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $200: ...in fume, smoke, to get this alternative to a circuit breaker fuse |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $300: ...in grope, to fondle, to get this site full of squeezable oranges grove |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $400: ...in squire, a personage of big importance, to get this, a person of little stature squirt |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | CHANGE ONE LETTER... $500: ...in kudus, antelopes with horns, to get this, praise to toot your horn about kudos |
| #3708, aired 2000-10-18 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: Worn as a symbol of penitence, this garment is made of camel or goat hair Sackcloth |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | TREES $1000: Change one letter in elder, a shrub that may reach 20', & you get this tree that may grow to over 100' an alder |
| #3441, aired 1999-07-19 | ARTSY TYPES $1000: Change one letter in van Dyck to get the name of this master of 15th century Flemish art Jan van Eyck |
| #3219, aired 1998-09-10 | ARCHITECT TALK $600: Change one letter in "basement" to get this type of window that's hinged at the side casement |
| #3098, aired 1998-02-04 | FILM NOIR LINGO $200: Change one letter in "champ" to get this word for a fool or patsy a chump |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | FOOD $100: Change one letter in the herb yarrow & you'll get this foodstuff found in bones Marrow |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | NATURE $400: Change one letter in mole & you'll have the name of this mouselike rodent that's about the same size a vole |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: Change one letter in milk & you're gone from just taking advantage to this word meaning cheat bilk |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: Change one letter in Volga & you'll get this major river in West Africa the Volta |
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