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Octordle #15 (October 19, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Monday, October 19, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #15 was the set of 8 words for Monday, October 19, 2026. E (5 boards), R (5 boards), L (4 boards), A (3 boards), C (3 boards) and O (3 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. LEPER, SCREE and CELLO repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, CRANE leaves the smallest total field here: 338 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 603 for STARE. 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 #15 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers10
Answers with a repeated letter3
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2
Best of five openersCRANE: 9 green, 8 yellow, 338 candidates left
Solver line10 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #15?

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
CRANE9813 · 101 · 24 · 58 · 120 · 3 · 11 · 8338
CRATE8810 · 103 · 17 · 240 · 111 · 3 · 8 · 8500
TRACE61010 · 103 · 17 · 240 · 111 · 5 · 13 · 13512
SLATE7628 · 20 · 20 · 215 · 61 · 32 · 61 · 133570
STARE7714 · 86 · 30 · 222 · 117 · 4 · 115 · 15603
A 10-guess solver line for Octordle #15

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. CRANE: opener, 338 candidates left in all.

  2. FORCE for board 6 (3 candidates left).

  3. FRAME for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

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

  5. OWING for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

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

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

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

  9. COBRA for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  10. LEPER for board 5 (2 candidates left) — solves board 5.

Boards solved at guess 3, 8, 4, 5, 10, 6, 7, 9.

Octordle #15 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: FRAME · Board 2: BULGE · Board 3: FLAIR · Board 4: OWING · Board 5: LEPER · Board 6: SCREE · Board 7: CELLO · Board 8: COBRA

FRAME BULGE FLAIR OWING LEPER SCREE CELLO COBRA

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