Waffle #1754 Hints & Answers Today, November 10, 2026

Waffle (wafflegame.net) puzzle #1754, for Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, starts with 6 of its 21 tiles green. One of them is the center square. Every word has a meaning below, and the answers with the swap route wait in the marked spoiler section.

The rules for the green, yellow and gray tiles are on our Waffle page.

Hints for each word

Across

• Row 1: starts with B and ends with P. The upper-arm muscle that bends the elbow.
• Row 3: starts with K and ends with N. Familiar or recognized.
• Row 5: starts with D and ends with E. A slow, mournful song for the dead.

Down

• Column 1: starts with B and ends with D. Cooked in an oven.
• Column 3: starts with C and ends with R. A group of singers.
• Column 5: starts with P and ends with E. A tube-shaped pasta.

Green tiles in grid #1754

Five of the six greens sit where a row meets a column, so each helps two words: row 1 at both ends, the center, and row 5 at both ends. The sixth, in row 2 below the top word’s middle, belongs to the column 3 word alone.

Word	Tiles already in place
Row 1	2 of 5
Row 3	1 of 5
Row 5	2 of 5
Column 1	2 of 5
Column 3	2 of 5
Column 5	2 of 5

Column 3 is the only word with a green tile outside a crossing, and row 3 is the least finished, with just its center home. The counts add up to 11: five shared greens count twice and the single-word green counts once.

Repeated letters in grid #1754

The 21 tiles hold four E’s, three N’s and three I’s; every other letter appears once. That is 10 tiles from just three letters.

Only one of the ten starts in its right square: an E in the bottom-right corner. The other three E’s, all three N’s and all three I’s begin elsewhere. When a letter turns up several times, a yellow tile tells you less, because the same letter has several legal homes. An E that is wrong in one square may be right in a neighboring one, and an N or I behaves the same way.

Treat the singletons first. A letter that appears once has exactly one destination, so moving it pins down a square and shrinks the choices left for the repeats.

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More of today’s puzzles: Wordle hints. Yesterday’s grid: Waffle #1753.

Today’s Waffle answers (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

Direction	Position	Answer
Across	Row 1	Bicep
Across	Row 3	Known
Across	Row 5	Dirge
Down	Column 1	Baked
Down	Column 3	Choir
Down	Column 5	Penne

The solved grid, with a dot for each hole:

B I C E P
A . H . E
K N O W N
E . I . N
D I R G E

The starting grid

The starting grid, row by row, with dots for the holes:

B E N I P
E . H . N
C E O G I
N . R . W
D K I A E

The green tiles are B in row 1, column 1; P in row 1, column 5; H in row 2, column 3; O in the center; D in row 5, column 1; and E in row 5, column 5.

A 10-swap route to finish

The minimum is 10 swaps. Play them in order, because each one assumes the earlier ones are done. Swaps 1, 4, 7, 9 and 10 put two tiles home at once; the other five fix one each.

Swap	Squares	Letters
1	Row 1, column 2 and row 1, column 4	E and I
2	Row 1, column 3 and row 3, column 1	N and C
3	Row 2, column 1 and row 5, column 4	E and A
4	Row 2, column 5 and row 3, column 2	N and E
5	Row 3, column 1 and row 5, column 2	N and K
6	Row 3, column 4 and row 4, column 5	G and W
7	Row 3, column 5 and row 5, column 2	I and N
8	Row 4, column 1 and row 5, column 4	N and E
9	Row 4, column 3 and row 5, column 3	R and I
10	Row 4, column 5 and row 5, column 4	G and N