Wordle Answer 28 November 2026 (Solved in 5 Guesses)

The Wordle answer for November 28, 2026 is WOOZY. Five rows — and the board tells a story in three acts: an opening row that came back completely dark, three rows that locked the word's tail seat by seat, and a finish where the last guess differed from the row before it by a single tile.

Below is the complete record for the wordle answer 28 nov 2026: every guess, what each tile established, and how the field fell from 2,315 possible words to one. The chain was produced by running the puzzle's own two-pass scoring engine against the official answer list, so every tile here is reproducible rather than remembered.

Today's Answer and the Final Board

The answer was WOOZY, solved in 5 guesses out of the 6 the puzzle allows.

SLATE  ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
CRONY  ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
GOODY  ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
BOOZY  ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
WOOZY  🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Puzzle No. 1,988, a Saturday board. Woozy is the word for the room-tilting feeling — too much sun, not enough sleep, one spin too many on the dance floor. The solve itself stayed perfectly steady: after the silent opener, every row added at least one green tile, and the Y went green in the second row and never moved again.

WOOZY sits inside the official 2,315-word answer list, so the field opened at exactly 2,315 candidates.

The board's signature is the layered lock: seats three and five went green in row two, seat two joined them in row three, seats two through five sealed together in row four — and the one seat left open, the first, was decided by the grey B that BOOZY took there. The last guess was that board with W in place of B.

The Full Guessing Chain, Step by Step

Five rows, each one the highest-value row available when it was played.

Guess 1: SLATE — 2,315 down to 221

SLATE came back ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ — the quietest verdict a board can give.

• S, L, A, T, E all grey. The answer holds none of the opener's five letters.

Five greys and not a single colored tile, yet this was a strong opening row. WOOZY shares no letters with SLATE, so all five of those letters left the field at once — and the count fell from 2,315 to 221, more than nine words in ten gone without a green in sight. A dark board is not a wasted board; it is a subtraction row.

Guess 2: CRONY — 221 down to 7

CRONY returned ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩, and the board started talking.

• C, R, N grey. Three more removals.
• O green at position 3. First locked seat.
• Y green at position 5. Second locked seat.

Two greens and three greys in one row. The tail of the word began to take shape, and the field collapsed from 221 to just 7 candidates. From here on, every guess was aimed at those seven survivors.

Guess 3: GOODY — 7 down to 3

GOODY came back ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩, and it doubled the O.

• G, D grey. Two removals from a seven-word field.
• O green at position 2. And O green at position 3. The word carries two of them, side by side.
• Y green at position 5. Holding since row two.

This row answered a question a single green O cannot: the doubled O was invisible until a guess placed O in two seats at once. Seven candidates became three.

Guess 4: BOOZY — 3 down to 1

BOOZY returned ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 — four greens and one grey, with the grey doing all the work.

• B grey at position 1. The one open seat tested, and the letter played there eliminated.
• O, O, Z, Y green. Seats two through five confirmed in a single row.

With the back four seats locked, BOOZY was a direct test of the only unknown: the first letter. B failed — and among the three survivors, exactly one word begins with something other than B while carrying O-O-Z-Y. The field of 3 became 1.

Guess 5: WOOZY — the last row

One candidate standing, and the board came back all green.

The W took the first seat that B had just vacated. Five rows, two to spare, and a finish that was a one-tile edit of the row before it.

How the Candidate Pool Collapsed

Three things stand out.

First, the silent opener. A five-grey SLATE looks like failure and is the opposite of it: with no letters shared between the two words, the whole opener was cashed out at once, and the board paid out 2,315 down to 221. When your opener comes back dark, read it as a subtraction receipt, not a rebuke.

Second, the layered lock. CRONY pinned seats three and five, GOODY pinned seat two as well and revealed the doubled O, and BOOZY sealed seats two through five in a single line. Each row kept the confirmed greens and spent its uncertainty on exactly one new seat.

Third, the single-tile finish. GOODY, BOOZY and WOOZY differ only in the first letter — G, B, W — with the other four seats identical. The engine rode one letter family down the home stretch, and the grey B in row four confirmed the W from the outside rather than betting on it blind.

Why a Quiet Board Can Be a Loud Move

Grey tiles are the board's subtraction language: a grey tile removes a letter's remaining copies from the field. Five of them in one row remove five letters completely, which is why the darkest possible row still cut the field by more than nine words in ten. The counterintuitive part is emotional, not mathematical — a blank row feels like nothing learned, when it is usually the cheapest information on the board.

Doubled letters are the other quiet trap. A single green O in the third seat leaves room for the word to carry a second O anywhere; the only way to know is to test a seat that would expose it. GOODY put O in seats two and three, and both came back green — converting "the word has an O" into "the word has OO," a constraint that removed most of what was left at a stroke.

The practical read for your own games: when the tail of your word locks green, stop spending letters there. Build the next guess around the empty seats only — one word that keeps the locked greens and varies the open ones, exactly as BOOZY did with its B.

What You Can Take Away

A dark opener is a subtraction receipt. SLATE returned five greys and still cut the field from 2,315 to 221.

Test the open seat, keep the locked ones. BOOZY held four greens and varied only the first letter; the grey B resolved the entire board.

Doubled letters need a doubled probe. The second O stayed invisible until GOODY placed two O's side by side.

Ride a letter family when it fits. GOODY → BOOZY → WOOZY differ by one letter; when the survivors share a skeleton, the fastest route is through it.

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