Word ladder answers for March 27, 2026
The daily ladder for Friday, March 27, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was BOLT to POSE, solvable in 3 steps, and the longest was JIVE to LATHS, which needs at least 5.
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Puzzle 1: BOLT to POSE
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- T becomes E
- B becomes P
- L becomes S
Words in this ladder
- BOLT noun
- a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- BOLE noun
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
- POLE noun
- a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- POSE noun
- affected manners intended to impress others
Puzzle 2: SINES to RISKS
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- E becomes K
- S becomes R
- N becomes S
Words in this ladder
- SINES noun
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- SINKS noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- RINKS noun
- building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
- RISKS noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
Puzzle 3: UPPERS to TOPPERS
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- add C
- U becomes O
- C becomes T
Words in this ladder
- UPPERS noun
- the higher of two berths
- CUPPERS noun
- a cup of tea
- COPPERS noun
- a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor
- TOPPERS noun
- a worker who makes or adds the top to something
Puzzle 4: JIVE to LATHS
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- J becomes L
- V becomes T
- I becomes A
- add H
- E becomes S
Words in this ladder
- JIVE noun
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- LIVE verb
- inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
- LITE adjective
- having relatively few calories
- LATE adjective
- being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- LATHE noun
- machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
- LATHS noun
- a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework
Puzzle 5: LIEN to LEAN
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- E becomes O
- I becomes E
- O becomes A
Words in this ladder
- LIEN noun
- the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
- LION noun
- large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male
- LEON noun
- a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern Spain
- LEAN noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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