Mathematics of the NYT daily word game Waffle

[2501.09286] Mathematics of the NYT daily word game Waffle Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Mathematics > History and Overview arXiv:2501.09286 (math) [Submitted on 16 Jan 2025 ( v1 ), last revised 9 Apr 2026 (this version, v3)] Title: Mathematics of the NYT daily word game Waffle Authors: S.P. Glasby View a PDF of the paper titled Mathematics of the NYT daily word game Waffle, by S.P. Glasby View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: This note investigates the combinatorics of permutations underlying the NYT daily word game Waffle. It helps to solve Waffle games and helps to understand why some games are easy to solve while others are very hard. It shows that a perfect unscrambling must have precisely 11 orbits, with at least one of length 1, on the 21 Waffle squares. It also describes practical algorithms for solving Waffle games and creating new games with extreme properties. Comments: 7 pages, 5 color figures (and 2 inline figures); clarified text in places Subjects: History and Overview (math.HO) MSC classes: 00A08 Cite as: arXiv:2501.09286 [math.HO] (or arXiv:2501.09286v3 [math.HO] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.09286 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Stephen Glasby [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:22:53 UTC (14 KB) [v2] Mon, 3 Mar 2025 23:23:13 UTC (15 KB) [v3] Thu, 9 Apr 2026 22:52:39 UTC (14 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Mathematics of the NYT daily word game Waffle, by S.P. Glasby View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: math.HO < prev | next > new | recent | 2025-01 Change to browse by: math References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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