Yesterday's answers
Every word in both boards for Tuesday, 27 October 2026.
These are yesterday’s boards. Today’s answers are not published here and never will be — the day is still being played, and the leaderboard is still open. Today’s puzzle is here.
Words are listed alphabetically rather than in any solving order, so finding the one you were stuck on does not give away the rest of the board. If a word you found is missing from both lists, how the lists are chosen explains why.
Standard — No. 67
The main board, which grows through the week.
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The list (22 words)
These are the words you needed to finish the board, and what they mean.
- code
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- coded
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- coke
- carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
- cone
- any cone-shaped artifact
- cord
- a line made of twisted fibers or threads
- core
- a small group of indispensable persons or things
- cork
- outer bark of the cork oak
- deed
- a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it
- dock
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- docked
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- doctor
- a licensed medical practitioner
- doctored
- a licensed medical practitioner
- done
- having finished or arrived at completion
- encore
- an extra or repeated performance
- herd
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- hero
- a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
- knock
- the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)
- knocked
- the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)
- node
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- rock
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- rocked
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- tore
- commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
Extras (63 words)
Real words hidden in the same grid. They score, and they are celebrated, but they were never needed to complete the day.
- codded
- codder
- coder
- coed
- coked
- conk
- conked
- conker
- corded
- cored
- corked
- deeded
- deeder
- deek
- deke
- dero
- docker
- doco
- doek
- doen
- doer
- donko
- drek
- eddo
- eked
- encode
- encoded
- encoder
- encored
- keno
- kero
- knocker
- koker
- koneke
- konk
- konked
- kore
- nock
- nocked
- nodded
- nodder
- ocker
- odder
- okeh
- redd
- redded
- rede
- reded
- redo
- redock
- redon
- redone
- roed
- roke
- roked
- tock
- tocked
- toco
- toed
- toke
- toked
- toker
- toko
Express — No. 67
The 3 × 3, same size all week — the words are what get harder.
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The list (16 words)
These are the words you needed to finish the board, and what they mean.
- cent
- a fractional monetary unit of several countries
- center
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- centre
- a low-lying region in central France
- centres
- a low-lying region in central France
- enter
- to come or go into
- pans
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- pens
- a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- recent
- approximately the last 10,000 years
- rent
- a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- scene
- the place where some action occurs
- scent
- a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- sent
- 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia
- snap
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- tans
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- tape
- a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
- tens
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one
Extras (63 words)
Real words hidden in the same grid. They score, and they are celebrated, but they were never needed to complete the day.
- ance
- anes
- ante
- antes
- antre
- antres
- apter
- ates
- cens
- cense
- censer
- cerne
- cert
- cetane
- enate
- enates
- enes
- erne
- erns
- esne
- etape
- etna
- nape
- nates
- pance
- pances
- pane
- panes
- pant
- panter
- pate
- paten
- patens
- pater
- pates
- pecs
- penates
- pence
- pences
- pene
- penes
- pent
- recept
- recs
- rens
- retape
- scena
- scepter
- sceptre
- scerne
- sena
- sene
- seta
- tane
- tanrec
- tanrecs
- tapen
- tecs
- tene
- tern
- terne
- terns
- tres