Daily Brain Teaser
Turn up the heat with today's word ladder — climb from COLD to WARM one letter at a time
Fitting for the middle of a scorching July, today's puzzle is a word ladder. Your mission: change just one letter at a time to turn the word COLD into the word WARM, passing through three mystery words along the way. Every rung of the ladder must be a real, common English word, and each word stays four letters long.
Use the clues below to fill in each rung. Ready? Climb on!
START: C O L D
Change one letter to spell a thick string, rope, or the cable that plugs in your lamp.
Change one letter to spell a stiff piece of paper — the kind you send on a birthday, or play in a game of poker.
Change one letter to spell a hospital unit, or a person placed under someone else's legal guardianship.
FINISH: W A R M
Bonus challenge: Can you find a different four-word path from COLD to WARM? There's more than one way to climb this ladder!
Answers
COLD
CORD
CARD
WARD
WARM
Each step changes exactly one letter: COLD → CORD → CARD → WARD → WARM. See how you did, and don't peek before you try!