Octordle solver & hints

After CRANE, the eight boards held 3,400 candidate words between them. SPLIT brought that down to 130. Board 2 is already down to one word, so it is a free win on the next turn. Board 4 still has 49 words and needs more probing. The suggested next guesses start with BEACH, DORMY, GOURD, MOODY: words that can finish a board while testing letters the others need.

Octordle hides eight five-letter words and gives you 13 guesses to find them all. Each guess is played on every open board at once, and each board colours it separately with the usual Wordle colours: green for the right letter in the right spot, yellow for a letter in that board's word but elsewhere, grey for a letter it does not contain.

Entering a game

Add a guess and it goes onto every unsolved board as grey tiles. Then, board by board, tap tiles until they match the game ( → → ). Boards are numbered left to right, top to bottom, the same order the game uses. A board with an all-green row is marked solved and takes no new rows. Eight boards is a lot of tapping, so set one board's colours completely before moving to the next.

Using it as a hint, not a spoiler

You choose how much help you get. Glance only at the count under a board to see how close you are. Open the list when a board is down to a handful of words. Use the suggested guess only when you are stuck. Nothing is shown that your own colours have not already narrowed down, and the solver never looks up the day's answers.

What happens behind the scenes

Each board keeps only the words, out of 8,636 five-letter words in our list, that would have produced exactly the colours you entered for every guess. The check replays the game's scoring, so a second copy of a letter that shows grey is read correctly. Lists run from most to least common word; rare words are faded. The next-guess score adds up across all open boards. Early on it favours letters found in about half of a board's candidates; later it counts how many colour patterns a guess would produce on each board.

Octordle strategy

Thirteen guesses for eight words leaves five turns for exploring. Use the first three on words with fresh, common letters; by then most boards have only a few candidates. Then solve boards in order of how few words they have left. A word that is a possible answer on one board and also tests letters for others is worth more than a perfect probe that cannot win anything. Late in the game, every guess that does not solve a board must be paid back, so stop probing once each open board is down to two or three words.

Octordle also has a Sequence mode, where boards unlock one at a time and you get 15 guesses, and a Rescue mode, where the game picks your opening words and you have fewer turns to finish. The solver works for both: enter the guesses as they appear and set the colours on the boards you can see.

Our word list is the public-domain ENABLE list (172,823 words). It is close to Octordle's own list but not identical, so the odd rare word may appear that the game never uses.