How many words can you make from the word 'potatoes'?

[supermousie]

So, whoever gets the most words wins an ectoplasmic cookie

Rules:
Plurals are fine
You may only use one letter once
Single letter stuff doesn't count so 'a' is ruled out
Has to be in English
Proper nouns are acceptable!

I got 24: as, ape, apes, ate, eat, east, pat, pats, pea, peas, past, peat, pesto, potato, sap, saps, spat, spot, tape, step, test, toast, teapot, and teapots.

[virus003]

you forgot eats

that makes 25

waz gud son

[Izzy]

set, toe, toes, pot, post, oats, top, tops, tea.

Thats my contribution.

[leonid]

ae, ape, apes, apse, apt, aptest, as, asp, at, ate, ates, atop, east, eat, eats, epos, es, estop, et, eta, etas, oast, oat, oats, oe, oes, oops, oot, oots, op, ope, opes, ops, opt, opts, os, ose, otto, ottos, pa, pas, pase, paseo, past, paste, pat, pate, pates, pats, pe, pea, peas, peat, peats, pes, peso, pest, pesto, pet, pets, petto, poet, poets, pose, post, pot, potato, potatoes, pots, potto, pottos, psoae, sae, sap, sat, sate, sea, seat, sept, septa, set, seta, sett, so, soap, soot, sop, sot, spa, spae, spat, spate, spot, stat, state, step, stet, stoa, stoae, stoat, stoop, stop, stope, stopt, ta, tae, tao, taos, tap, tape, tapes, taps, tas, taste, tat, tate, tates, tats, tea, teapot, teapots, teas, teat, teats, tepa, tepas, test, testa, tet, tets, to, toast, toe, toea, toes, too, toot, toots, top, tope, topes, topos, tops, tost, tot, tote, totes, tots,

[Izzy]

Obviously cheated, Game over. =(

Unless you wrote a program to generate all combinations and check against a dictionary. If that's the case then good job.

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Obviously cheated, Game over. =(

Unless you wrote a program to generate all combinations and check against a dictionary. If that's the case then good job.

I wrote this program

[flashpantss]

as, ape, apes, ate, eat, eats, east, pat, pats, pea, peas, past, peat, pesto, potato, sap, saps, spat, spot, tape, step, test, toast, teapot, teapots.

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by leonid

I wrote this program

Are you being serious? That would take at least 45 minutes to think through.

[potter_rocks_out_loud]

poet, poets, stop, toast, idk.. maybe more


Edit.: efffff uuuuu leonid.. >.>

[leonid]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Are you being serious? That would take at least 45 minutes to think through.

I can speak in Ruby

open("dictionary.txt").read.scan(/^[potatoes]{1,8}$/){|i|print i,', ' if [['p',1],['o',2],['t',2],['a',1],['e',1],['s',1]].all?{|a,b|i.count(a)<=b}}

[HammyMcSquirrel]

Eh... Not much of a game. Try thinking of something more unique.