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Octordle #22 (October 26, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Monday, October 26, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #22 was the set of 8 words for Monday, October 26, 2026. E (6 boards), S (5 boards), R (4 boards), B (2 boards), G (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. SEWER and SMELL repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. QUART carries one of the rare letters J, Q, X or Z. Of five common openers, STARE leaves the smallest total field here: 281 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 781 for CRATE. 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 #22 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers12
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 2
Best of five openersSTARE: 10 green, 8 yellow, 281 candidates left
Solver line12 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #22?

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
STARE10827 · 7 · 4 · 14 · 30 · 65 · 19 · 115281
SLATE9732 · 32 · 18 · 25 · 72 · 12 · 6 · 163360
CRANE49101 · 40 · 24 · 120 · 120 · 58 · 127 · 57647
TRACE49103 · 40 · 7 · 111 · 7 · 240 · 122 · 122752
CRATE310103 · 40 · 8 · 111 · 35 · 240 · 122 · 122781
A 12-guess solver line for Octordle #22

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, 281 candidates left in all.

  2. APART for board 3 (4 candidates left).

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

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

  5. SNORE for board 2 (2 candidates left).

  6. SPOKE for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

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

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

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

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

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

  12. BEGIN for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

Boards solved at guess 6, 7, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Octordle #22 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: SPOKE · Board 2: SWORE · Board 3: QUART · Board 4: SEWER · Board 5: TUBER · Board 6: SLING · Board 7: SMELL · Board 8: BEGIN

SPOKE SWORE QUART SEWER TUBER SLING SMELL BEGIN

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