The four answers to today’s Quordle (#1642, July 24, 2026) are DOLLY, EDIFY, LAGER, and PRANK. Hints for each word are below if you want to solve one more before looking; the full solution follows.
Hints
Word 1: Something children play with – and also the wheeled platform a film crew uses to move a camera smoothly across a set.
Word 2: A formal verb meaning to improve someone’s mind or morals. Latin root, ends in -IFY.
Word 3: A pale, bottom-fermented beer stored cold before serving. The name comes from the German word for storage.
Word 4: A mischievous trick intended to catch someone off guard. Opens with a PR- consonant cluster.
Today’s Answers: DOLLY, EDIFY, LAGER, PRANK
EDIFY is today’s vocabulary outlier. Most solvers encounter it only in formal or literary writing – “edifying television,” a sermon meant to edify a congregation – and while the -IFY suffix is logical, it is less instinctive than MODIFY or NOTIFY. The word comes from the Latin “aedificare” (to build), originally in the spiritual sense of building up one’s faith. DOLLY’s double-L in positions four and five is the structural trap: solvers who feel the word but second-guess the repeated letter will burn guesses. LAGER and PRANK are the board’s more forgiving entries. LAGER’s five-letter pattern is distinctive enough that a good opening guess usually surfaces it early, and PRANK’s P-R cluster resolves without ambiguity once the opener is confirmed.
Yesterday’s Quordle #1641 for July 23, 2026 had answers LADEN, EVICT, WOVEN, and SHIRE – a set with a noticeably different feel, leaning toward past-tense and archaic register. Today’s #1642 spreads wider: DOLLY sits at the informal end of the vocabulary spectrum, EDIFY at the formal. For more of today’s NYT puzzle coverage, see the Quordle answers for July 22, 2026 (COYLY, SINGE, AWASH, AWOKE).
