Here are the hints for feetle.games puzzle #4, the daily Feetle for Wednesday, October 21, 2026. You start at BALK and change one letter per step until you reach FEET. The full answer goes up the next day at 08:00 UTC, when the next puzzle goes live. The puzzle number and start word are our own: feetle.games picks its own daily word, so if you play Feetle on another site and your start word is different, type it into the solver box further down this page.
- Date
- Wednesday, October 21, 2026
- Start word
- BALK
- Par
- 5 steps
- Difficulty
- Medium
Feetle #4 hints
Open one hint at a time. Each one gives away a little more than the one before.
Hint 1: which letter to change first
Start with the 4th letter of BALK. The whole puzzle takes 5 steps.
Hint 2: the shape of the first word
Your first new word fits the pattern _ A L _, where each _ is a letter you still have to find.
Hint 3: the first word
The first step is BALK → BALL. From BALL, FEET is 4 steps away.
Hint 4: the last word before FEET
The last word before FEET is BEET. Change one letter of BEET and you are done.
Feetle #4 answer
The full answer for Feetle #4 goes up at 08:00 UTC tomorrow (Thursday, October 22, 2026).
Feetle is a puzzle for the whole day, so we keep the full ladder back until the day is over. Everyone who plays #4 gets the same start word, and an answer one click away makes the streaks and the shared results mean less. With hint 3 and hint 4 open you know the first word and the last word before FEET, so only two words in the middle are left to find yourself. At 08:00 UTC tomorrow this page gets the full answer, every shortest ladder and the first-move traps.
Yesterday's puzzle is over, so its full answer is up: the Feetle #3 answer, CHAT to FEET, with every shortest ladder.
How the Feetle hints work
The Feetle hints on this page go from small to big. Hint 1 names the letter of BALK to change first. Hint 2 shows your first new word with the new letters blanked out, hint 3 gives that word in full, and hint 4 gives the word just before FEET, so you can work on the ladder from both ends. Open one, try a step in the game, and come back only if you are still stuck. The in-game Hint button works the same way for whatever word you are on.
How this compares to yesterday
Yesterday's Feetle, puzzle #3, started at CHAT and took 4 steps (easy), with 5 shortest ladders. Today's BALK takes 5 steps, one step more, so it is harder than yesterday, with 11 shortest ladders to find.
About the start word BALK
BALK has no letters in common with FEET, so all four letters have to change. Changing one letter of BALK gives 14 words in our list of 3,852, and 13 of them are everyday words. Of all the words we accept, 1,428 sit exactly 5 steps from FEET, and BALK is one of them.
Playing Feetle somewhere else? Enter your start word
Other sites pick their own daily word. Type yours in for hints, never the answer: how many steps are left, which letter to change and the shape of the next word.
Questions about Feetle #4
What is the Feetle answer for October 21, 2026?
On feetle.games, puzzle #4 goes from BALK to FEET in 5 steps. The four hints are on this page now, and the full answer goes up at 08:00 UTC on Thursday, October 22, 2026, when puzzle #5 goes live.
How hard is Feetle #4?
It is rated medium. Par is 5 steps and there are 11 shortest ladders. We rate a par of 4 as easy, 5 or 6 as medium and 7 or more as hard.
Why is my Feetle start word different?
The daily puzzles on feetle.games are our own, with their own numbers. Other Feetle sites choose their own start words and may accept different words. Enter your start word in the solver box on this page to get hints for the puzzle you are playing.
When does the next Feetle puzzle come out?
The puzzle after this one, #5, is the one for Thursday, October 22, 2026. Every feetle.games puzzle goes live at 08:00 UTC on its date, which on Oct 22 is 4 a.m. EDT in New York. Its hints go up within half an hour, and its full answer the day after.