Waffle #1758 Hints & Answers Today, November 14, 2026

Waffle (wafflegame.net) puzzle #1758, for Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, begins with 7 of its 21 tiles green and 14 to fix. The count matches Friday’s board exactly, yet the letters behave differently; the clues come first and the answers wait in the marked last section.

Colors and swap rules are explained on our Waffle page. Today’s twist is a crowd of letters that each appear three times, so a yellow tile rarely has just one home.

Clues for each of the six words

Across

• Row 1: starts with A and ends with E. A quiet remark meant for the audience in a play.
• Row 3: starts with V and ends with A. A long, framed view, such as one down a valley or through trees.
• Row 5: starts with L and ends with E. A machine that spins wood or metal against a cutting tool.

Down

• Column 1: starts with A and ends with L. The heavy iron block a blacksmith hammers metal on.
• Column 3: starts with I and ends with T. A small picture or map set inside a larger one.
• Column 5: starts with E and ends with E. To rub out or wipe away, as pencil marks.

Where the seven greens sit

Four greens sit on the edge or in a corner, one is the center, and two are in row 3 beside it. The four corners and the center each belong to two words at once; the pair beside the center belongs to row 3 alone.

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

Row 3 has the strongest start, with three tiles home. Column 3 has the weakest, with only its center.

#1758 next to #1757

The two boards have the same opening numbers and play very differently. The table counts only; Friday’s board is Waffle #1757.

Measure	#1757 (Nov. 13)	#1758 (Nov. 14)
Tiles green at the start	7	7
Tiles out of place	14	14
Shortest route	10 swaps	10 swaps
Two-for-one swaps in that route	4	4
Most copies of one letter	6 (the letter E)	3 (four letters tied)
Letters that appear more than once	5	6
Letters that appear once	7	5

Friday leaned on one letter with six tiles. Saturday spreads the repeats more evenly: twelve tiles belong to the four triple letters and four more to two pairs, so only five letters are one-offs. Friday’s trap was a single crowded letter; today’s is a handful of look-alike tiles that each fit two or three gaps.

Keep your own record of the week on the printable weekly calendar or the November 2026 printable calendar.

More puzzles today: Wordle hints and Connections hints.

Waffle #1758 answers and swap route (spoilers)

Stop here if you still want to solve it yourself.

Direction	Position	Answer
Across	Row 1	Aside
Across	Row 3	Vista
Across	Row 5	Lathe
Down	Column 1	Anvil
Down	Column 3	Inset
Down	Column 5	Erase

The solved grid, with a dot for each hole:

A S I D E
N . N . R
V I S T A
I . E . S
L A T H E

The starting grid

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

A E S N E
H . T . N
A I S T S
D . I . V
L R A I E

The green tiles are A in row 1, column 1; E in row 1, column 5; I in row 3, column 2; S in the center; T in row 3, column 4; L in row 5, column 1; and E in row 5, column 5.

Which letters appear three times

A, S, I and E each fill three squares, and N and T fill two each. The other five letters (D, R, V, L and H) appear once.

Letter	Squares in the solved grid	Start in the right square
A	Row 1, column 1; row 3, column 5; row 5, column 2	1
S	Row 1, column 2; center; row 4, column 5	1
I	Row 1, column 3; row 3, column 2; row 4, column 1	1
E	Row 1, column 5; row 4, column 3; row 5, column 5	2
N	Row 2, column 1; row 2, column 3	0
T	Row 3, column 4; row 5, column 3	1

Both N tiles start in the wrong place, and both finish in row 2.

A 10-swap route to finish

The minimum is 10 swaps, found by an exhaustive search and replayed on the starting grid to reach the solved one. Play them in order, because each one assumes the earlier ones are done. Swaps 2, 8, 9 and 10 put two tiles home at once; the other six fix one each.

Swap	Squares	Letters
1	Row 1, column 2 and row 1, column 3	E and S
2	Row 1, column 3 and row 4, column 3	E and I
3	Row 1, column 4 and row 2, column 1	N and H
4	Row 1, column 4 and row 4, column 1	H and D
5	Row 2, column 3 and row 2, column 5	T and N
6	Row 2, column 5 and row 5, column 2	T and R
7	Row 3, column 1 and row 3, column 5	A and S
8	Row 3, column 1 and row 4, column 5	S and V
9	Row 4, column 1 and row 5, column 4	H and I
10	Row 5, column 2 and row 5, column 3	T and A

Why the count is 10

Fourteen tiles are misplaced, and a loop of n tiles costs n minus 1 swaps, so swaps equal misplaced tiles minus loops. Ten swaps means 4 loops. In this route the first move is a one-tile fix that clears the way for swap 2, and the last three two-for-one swaps wait until the tiles around them have settled.