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Octordle #13 (October 17, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Saturday, October 17, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #13 was the set of 8 words for Saturday, October 17, 2026. A (4 boards), E (4 boards), L (4 boards), S (3 boards), D (2 boards) and I (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. CLACK, DREAD, SIEGE, STILT and RERUN 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: 433 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 713 for CRANE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 10 guesses (13 allowed).

Octordle #13 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers10
Answers with a repeated letter5
Vowels per answer1 · 2 · 2 · 3 · 1 · 2 · 2 · 1
Best of five openersSLATE: 7 green, 10 yellow, 433 candidates left
Solver line10 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #13?

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
SLATE71020 · 133 · 61 · 32 · 5 · 163 · 18 · 1433
STARE6936 · 124 · 47 · 27 · 22 · 117 · 115 · 5493
CRATE4915 · 123 · 7 · 103 · 90 · 111 · 122 · 58629
TRACE4911 · 123 · 7 · 103 · 112 · 111 · 122 · 54643
CRANE4913 · 47 · 9 · 101 · 257 · 27 · 127 · 132713
A 10-guess solver line for Octordle #13

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, 433 candidates left in all.

  2. SPLAT for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  3. STILT for board 5 (only one candidate left) — solves board 5.

  4. SIEGE for board 4 (4 candidates left) — solves board 4.

  5. BLUER for board 7 (7 candidates left).

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

  7. NOMAD for board 2 (only one candidate left) — solves board 2.

  8. DREAD for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

  9. ELBOW for board 7 (only one candidate left) — solves board 7.

  10. CLACK for board 1 (3 candidates left) — solves board 1.

Boards solved at guess 10, 7, 8, 4, 3, 6, 9, 2.

Octordle #13 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: CLACK · Board 2: NOMAD · Board 3: DREAD · Board 4: SIEGE · Board 5: STILT · Board 6: RERUN · Board 7: ELBOW · Board 8: SPLAT

CLACK NOMAD DREAD SIEGE STILT RERUN ELBOW SPLAT

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