From the subreddit [r/SpeedOfLobsters](https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeedOfLobsters/): > Edit the text of an image to create a new phrase This meme format/style is pretty self-explanatory. Simply have a browse through the subreddit if you need more examples. However, when coming up with ideas, it can be quite difficult to decide exactly which letters to keep and which to blank out to create my intended joke. You are to take a sentence of space separated "words" (i.e. non-empty alphabetical strings) and a target "word" (still a non-empty alphabetical string) and "blank out" characters from the sentence in order to make the target word. For example: "I do not control the speed at which lobsters die", "code" -> "*********co**************d***************e******" Note that the order of the target word is maintained, so `**do*****c*********e****************************` is not an acceptable output. The gaps between letters in the blanked out output should be minimal, so `"testcase string", "tas"` should be `t****as********` not `t****a***s******` You may input and output in any [convenient method](https://codegolf.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2447/default-for-code-golf-input-output-methods). You may use either uppercase or lowercase, so long as it is consistent across all inputs. You may use any character that will not appear in the input (i.e any non-alphabetic character, or characters of the opposite case to the input) to "blank out" characters. The target word is guaranteed to be fully contained in the sentence (so `"abcdef", "xyz"` will never be an input) and will always be shorter than the sentence. The sentence will contain a minimum of two words (and therefore one space), each of which will be a minimum of 1 character long. This is [tag:code-golf] so the shortest code in bytes wins. ## Test cases sentence target output I do not control the speed at which lobsters die code *********co**************d***************e****** testcase string tas t****as******** uglhwagp qvyntzmf ulhwagpqvyntzmf u*lhwagp*qvyntzmf qrkacxx wwfja jsyjdffa vwfgxf qcfvf q***c*****f************v*f*** z wzsgovhh jopw igcx muxj xmmisxdn t lmb gcujxlb *****g************c***u*j*x**********l*b kxf jgmzejypb ya e ********e******* fe oxyk y ex *e**x**** o wr fmik owrfmik o*wr*fmik pgezt yozcyqq drxt gcvaj hx l ix xemimmox e **e************************************** kqclk b hkgtrh k k************* sia prcrdfckg otqwvdv wzdqxvqb h xclxmaj xjdwt lzfw crwqqhxl ******cr*********w*******q**q**h*x*l*************** <sub>Thanks to [Lyxal](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/78850/lyxal) for helping me adapt the original idea of this into this version</sub>