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Octordle #8 (October 12, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Monday, October 12, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #8 was the set of 8 words for Monday, October 12, 2026. E (5 boards), Y (4 boards), A (3 boards), G (3 boards), L (3 boards) and S (3 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. NIECE and ELDER repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, SLATE leaves the smallest total field here: 372 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 809 for CRANE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 11 guesses (13 allowed).

Octordle #8 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers12
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer1 · 3 · 2 · 3 · 2 · 0 · 2 · 2
Best of five openersSLATE: 7 green, 9 yellow, 372 candidates left
Solver line11 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #8?

For each opener: greens and yellows it would earn across the 8 boards, and how many answers would still fit each board afterwards (smaller is better).

OpenerGreenYellowCandidates left per boardTotal
SLATE795 · 6 · 5 · 106 · 18 · 39 · 30 · 163372
CRATE6839 · 34 · 2 · 21 · 111 · 240 · 42 · 122611
STARE41117 · 6 · 4 · 86 · 117 · 222 · 47 · 115614
TRACE59112 · 34 · 3 · 15 · 111 · 240 · 42 · 122679
CRANE59257 · 43 · 13 · 11 · 120 · 257 · 51 · 57809
An 11-guess solver line for Octordle #8

Guess 1 is the best opener above; each later guess is the first remaining candidate on the board with the fewest candidates. Boards are numbered 1–8 reading left to right, top to bottom.

  1. SLATE: opener, 372 candidates left in all.

  2. DUSTY for board 1 (5 candidates left).

  3. USAGE for board 2 (only one candidate left) — solves board 2.

  4. GUSTY for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

  5. GLYPH for board 6 (only one candidate left) — solves board 6.

  6. LAYER for board 7 (only one candidate left) — solves board 7.

  7. ELDER for board 5 (2 candidates left) — solves board 5.

  8. BOAST for board 3 (3 candidates left).

  9. COAST for board 3 (2 candidates left) — solves board 3.

  10. MONEY for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  11. NIECE for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

Boards solved at guess 4, 3, 9, 11, 7, 5, 6, 10.

Octordle #8 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: GUSTY · Board 2: USAGE · Board 3: COAST · Board 4: NIECE · Board 5: ELDER · Board 6: GLYPH · Board 7: LAYER · Board 8: MONEY

GUSTY USAGE COAST NIECE ELDER GLYPH LAYER MONEY

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