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DatePuzzleAnswerWord difficulty
Oct 25, 2026 #1,954 → DRESS Tricky
Oct 24, 2026 #1,953 → HOLEY Hard
Oct 23, 2026 #1,952 → TRILL Tricky
Oct 22, 2026 #1,951 → RESET Moderate
Oct 21, 2026 #1,950 → PENNY Tricky
Oct 20, 2026 #1,949 → WREST Tricky
Oct 19, 2026 #1,948 → STINK Used 2 times Tricky
Oct 18, 2026 #1,947 → ADORN Easy
Oct 17, 2026 #1,946 → GAFFE Tricky
Oct 16, 2026 #1,945 → SHADY Moderate
Oct 15, 2026 #1,944 → DUNCE Tricky
Oct 14, 2026 #1,943 → PSYCH Tricky
Oct 13, 2026 #1,942 → WIDER Moderate
Oct 12, 2026 #1,941 → YODEL Hard

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Past answers published on October 26 in earlier years. Every puzzle listed here is complete, so this section does not spoil a live game.

  1. 1 year ago
    Tricky

    The doubled P raises the difficulty. Once a letter shows up yellow or green, few players try it a second time unprompted.

    Puzzle #1,590 → Word page →

  2. 2 years ago
    Tricky

    A trap-family answer: 4 answers fit the pattern _REAK, so four green tiles can still leave several candidates.

    Puzzle #1,225 → Word page →

  3. 3 years ago
    Tricky

    Only 30 of the 2,386 words in the site's working answer pool contain Q, so common openers gather no evidence for it.

    Puzzle #859 → Word page →

The Easy-to-Brutal badge combines general-English corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It estimates word difficulty, not player results. Dates come from the site's recorded answer history.

Archive totals

1,955 Answers
S Most common start (292)
E Most common end (388)
28 Repeated answers
JAZZY Highest estimated difficulty

Estimated word difficulty combines wordfreq corpus frequency with repeats, uncommon letters and vowel count. It measures word properties, not player results. Compare solver difficulty →

  • Easy 526
  • Moderate 587
  • Tricky 628
  • Hard 187
  • Brutal 27

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