LADDERWORDS Reviewed
#30 · TUESDAY 13 OCT 2026
GOODYWARMS
Par 5· Easy 2/7· …
All 5 letters change·Straight climb at par

How climbers did

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Our route

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1Y → S
2G → W
3O → R
4O → A
5D → M

Every one of the 5 moves fixes a letter for good — a straight climb. There may be several par routes — the census above shows which ones climbers actually took.

The words

Goody

noun

A small treat or sweet thing, especially for a child.

Goody is a simple extension of the word 'good,' with the suffix adding a sense of something pleasantly good to eat or receive. It has been used as an exclamation of delight and as a noun for treats since the early modern period. The word 'goodie' is a common modern spelling variant.

Full entry on Wiktionary ↗

Warms

verb

Third-person singular of warm: to make or become moderately hot.

Warm comes from Old English 'wearm,' with close relatives in German and other Germanic languages. It shares a distant root with Latin 'formus,' meaning warm. The word has described gentle heat, both physical and emotional, for over a thousand years.

Full entry on Wiktionary ↗

Definitions give each word’s most common meaning — the full entries live at Wiktionary.