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Octordle #19 (October 23, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Friday, October 23, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #19 was the set of 8 words for Friday, October 23, 2026. A (5 boards), O (3 boards), P (3 boards), R (3 boards), Y (3 boards) and C (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. GASSY repeats 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: 384 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 741 for SLATE. 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 #19 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers13
Answers with a repeated letter1
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 1 · 2 · 1 · 2 · 2 · 2
Best of five openersCRANE: 4 green, 10 yellow, 384 candidates left
Solver line11 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #19?

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
CRANE4105 · 24 · 132 · 90 · 58 · 6 · 51 · 18384
CRATE4919 · 17 · 123 · 62 · 240 · 6 · 49 · 3519
TRACE31031 · 17 · 123 · 62 · 240 · 10 · 49 · 12544
STARE39124 · 12 · 15 · 97 · 222 · 50 · 97 · 11628
SLATE38133 · 47 · 13 · 85 · 215 · 30 · 215 · 3741
An 11-guess solver line for Octordle #19

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, 384 candidates left in all.

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

  3. MANIC for board 1 (2 candidates left).

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

  5. MEATY for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

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

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

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

  9. LURID for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

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

  11. GASSY for board 3 (2 candidates left) — solves board 3.

Boards solved at guess 4, 7, 11, 9, 6, 8, 10, 5.

Octordle #19 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: PANIC · Board 2: BOARD · Board 3: GASSY · Board 4: LURID · Board 5: PHONY · Board 6: FECAL · Board 7: GROUP · Board 8: MEATY

PANIC BOARD GASSY LURID PHONY FECAL GROUP MEATY

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