num_pages: 95
description: A challenging new puzzle from the author of Maze. The challenge to you, as a literary Alchemist, is to successfully forge a chain of forty-five transformations that change the word CAT into the word GOLD. There are any number of word-chains illustrated herein, but there is only one chain that lets you turn your CAT into GOLD without repeating a word.
language: English
title: The Practical Alchemist: Showing the Way an Ordinary House-Cat May Be Transformed into True Gold
titlecomplete: The Practical Alchemist: Showing the Way an Ordinary House-Cat May Be Transformed into True Gold
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Henry Holt & Co