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Octordle #14 (October 18, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Sunday, October 18, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #14 was the set of 8 words for Sunday, October 18, 2026. L (4 boards), A (3 boards), E (3 boards), H (3 boards), R (3 boards) and U (3 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. STEEL repeats 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: 411 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 689 for STARE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 12 guesses (13 allowed).

Octordle #14 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers15
Answers with a repeated letter1
Vowels per answer1 · 1 · 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 2 · 1
Best of five openersSLATE: 6 green, 8 yellow, 411 candidates left
Solver line12 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #14?

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
SLATE6847 · 85 · 3 · 215 · 10 · 20 · 18 · 13411
CRATE4925 · 50 · 59 · 240 · 13 · 49 · 9 · 59504
TRACE4925 · 37 · 58 · 240 · 58 · 49 · 14 · 59540
CRANE586 · 54 · 127 · 257 · 127 · 16 · 10 · 62659
STARE4930 · 222 · 4 · 222 · 54 · 36 · 117 · 4689
A 12-guess solver line for Octordle #14

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, 411 candidates left in all.

  2. SMELT for board 3 (3 candidates left).

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

  4. BERTH for board 5 (7 candidates left).

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

  6. RASPY for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  7. GULCH for board 2 (2 candidates left) — solves board 2.

  8. BOUGH for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

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

  10. DWARF for board 1 (2 candidates left).

  11. FRANK for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

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

Boards solved at guess 11, 7, 3, 8, 5, 12, 9, 6.

Octordle #14 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: FRANK · Board 2: GULCH · Board 3: STEEL · Board 4: BOUGH · Board 5: HEFTY · Board 6: BLANK · Board 7: ULCER · Board 8: RASPY

FRANK GULCH STEEL BOUGH HEFTY BLANK ULCER RASPY

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