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Octordle #16 (October 20, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #16 was the set of 8 words for Tuesday, October 20, 2026. B (3 boards), H (3 boards), I (3 boards), O (3 boards), R (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. SULLY and UNDID repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, STARE leaves the smallest total field here: 538 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 848 for TRACE. 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 #16 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers12
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer2 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 2
Best of five openersSTARE: 6 green, 6 yellow, 538 candidates left
Solver line12 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #16?

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
STARE665 · 97 · 27 · 42 · 65 · 222 · 63 · 17538
SLATE64106 · 85 · 32 · 37 · 17 · 215 · 133 · 17642
CRANE2740 · 54 · 101 · 90 · 257 · 54 · 62 · 132790
CRATE3740 · 22 · 103 · 9 · 240 · 240 · 59 · 123836
TRACE3740 · 11 · 103 · 32 · 240 · 240 · 59 · 123848
A 12-guess solver line for Octordle #16

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. STARE: opener, 538 candidates left in all.

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

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

  4. BOTCH for board 2 (only one candidate left) — solves board 2.

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

  6. HARDY for board 7 (2 candidates left) — solves board 7.

  7. SAVOY for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

  8. FLUID for board 6 (3 candidates left).

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

  10. SEIZE for board 3 (2 candidates left).

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

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

Boards solved at guess 3, 4, 11, 5, 12, 9, 6, 7.

Octordle #16 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: OMBRE · Board 2: BOTCH · Board 3: SPIKE · Board 4: BIRTH · Board 5: SULLY · Board 6: UNDID · Board 7: HARDY · Board 8: SAVOY

OMBRE BOTCH SPIKE BIRTH SULLY UNDID HARDY SAVOY

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