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Word Chain (?) Bird to Nest

Puzzling Asked by Jeff Zeitlin on April 27, 2021

Lloyd is quite fond of math, and likes to incorporate math into almost everything he does. One weekend, the local newspaper printed a Word Chain puzzle, with starting point BIRD and ending with NEST. I had some trouble solving it, and asked Lloyd for help. He told me that he had solved it, and handed me his copy of the puzzle.

When I looked at Lloyd’s “solution”, I didn’t see a chain of words, just a sequence of math operations. Seeing as this is Lloyd, I figured that it really was a solution, but I couldn’t figure out what he was doing.

Here is Lloyd’s solution. Can you reconstruct the actual word chain?

BIRD
     -  5408
     +    15
     + 17576
     +     1
     +    26
     +158184
     +  2704
NEST + 35152

One Answer

Reconstruction:

because

this is evident because

Correct answer by FTC_Bot on April 27, 2021

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