Word ladder answers for November 3, 2026
The daily ladder for Tuesday, November 3, 2026 had 5 puzzles. The quickest was SPUR to SCOUR, solvable in 2 steps, and the longest was NERDS to BRIDES, which needs at least 6.
Solutions are folded away until you open them, so you can have a go first. We show one shortest path per puzzle. Plenty of ladders have two or three paths of the same length, so if yours doesn't match and has the same step count, it's just as good.
Puzzle 1: DECKS to ROCKY
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- E becomes O
- D becomes R
- S becomes Y
Words in this ladder
- DECKS noun
- any of various platforms built into a vessel
- DOCKS noun
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- ROCKS noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- ROCKY adjective
- abounding in rocks or stones
Puzzle 2: SPUR to SCOUR
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- P becomes O
- add C
Words in this ladder
- SPUR noun
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- SOUR noun
- a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- SCOUR noun
- a place that is scoured (especially by running water)
Puzzle 3: ILK to BOIL
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- K becomes L
- add B
- I becomes O
- L becomes I
Words in this ladder
- ILK noun
- a kind of person
- ILL noun
- an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- BILL noun
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- BOLL noun
- the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant
- BOIL noun
- a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus
Puzzle 4: UNIFY to UNITED
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- F becomes T
- Y becomes S
- add E
- S becomes D
Words in this ladder
- UNIFY verb
- become one
- UNITY noun
- an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting
- UNITS noun
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- UNITES verb
- act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief
- UNITED verb
- act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief
Puzzle 5: NERDS to BRIDES
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- N becomes H
- D becomes E
- E becomes I
- R becomes D
- H becomes R
- add B
Words in this ladder
- NERDS noun
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- HERDS noun
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- HERES noun
- the present location; this place
- HIRES noun
- a newly hired employee
- HIDES noun
- the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- RIDES noun
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- BRIDES noun
- a woman who has recently been married
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