Word ladder answers for August 29, 2026
The daily ladder for Saturday, August 29, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was TORE to PALE, solvable in 3 steps, and the longest was LUDA to TRILL, which needs at least 7.
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Puzzle 1: TORE to PALE
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- T becomes P
- R becomes L
- O becomes A
Words in this ladder
- TORE noun
- commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
- PORE noun
- any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
- POLE noun
- a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- PALE noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Puzzle 2: PUNS to NOONS
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- P becomes N
- add O
- U becomes O
Words in this ladder
- PUNS noun
- a humorous play on words
- NUNS noun
- a woman religious
- NOUNS noun
- a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
- NOONS noun
- the middle of the day
Puzzle 3: WEDS to YEARS
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- W becomes R
- add A
- D becomes R
- R becomes Y
Words in this ladder
- WEDS noun
- the fourth day of the week; the third working day
- REDS noun
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- READS noun
- something that is read
- REARS noun
- the back of a military formation or procession
- YEARS noun
- a late time of life
Puzzle 4: ILLS to BORED
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- add B
- L becomes E
- I becomes O
- L becomes R
- S becomes D
Words in this ladder
- ILLS noun
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- BILLS noun
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- BILES noun
- a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
- BOLES noun
- a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment)
- BORES noun
- a person who evokes boredom
- BORED verb
- cause to be bored
Puzzle 5: LUDA to TRILL
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- D becomes N
- L becomes T
- A becomes E
- U becomes I
- N becomes L
- E becomes L
- add R
Words in this ladder
- LUDA noun
- an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun
- LUNA noun
- (Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene
- TUNA noun
- tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
- TUNE noun
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- TINE noun
- prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
- TILE noun
- a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- TILL noun
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- TRILL noun
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
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