WORD RAILS DAILY · NO. 42

Daily No. 42 recap: Thursday, November 12, 2026

2 riders played Word Rails Daily No. 42 on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The best run scored 1,724, 1,077 short of the Conductor's 2,801.

The numbers

The best words

The three highest-scoring words anyone played on this board, each at its best score. Longer and rarer words are worth more, and a word scores more again when it uses a multiplier tile or clears a whole car.

  1. QUEENS

    240PTS

    Played by 1 rider

    n.the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

  2. QUIET

    220PTS

    Played by 1 rider

    adj.characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity

  3. MUSHY

    156PTS

    Played by 1 rider

    adj.having the consistency of mush

How the riders did

Every board has three star lines and a gold line, the same for everyone who rode it. A run lights a star for each line it reaches.

About the Word Rails Daily

The Daily is one free word puzzle a day, the same board for everyone. Letter tiles ride in on train cars: tap them in any order to spell a word, and the train rolls forward to refill the gaps until the last car has gone through. Longer and rarer words score more, and colored tiles and special cars score extra.

A new board arrives at midnight, your local time. Every run earns up to three stars and a chance at gold, and the Conductor, a reference player who rides each board before it goes out, sets a score to beat. Once a day has ended in every time zone, its recap is posted here.

Definitions from WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).