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Octordle #23 (October 27, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #23 was the set of 8 words for Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Y (5 boards), O (4 boards), S (4 boards), R (3 boards), A (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. LOYAL, OFFER, SOGGY and SKULK 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: 613 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 1059 for CRANE. 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 #23 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers8
Answers with a repeated letter4
Vowels per answer2 · 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 1 · 1 · 1
Best of five openersSTARE: 2 green, 9 yellow, 613 candidates left
Solver line12 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #23?

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
STARE2938 · 124 · 117 · 65 · 65 · 10 · 97 · 97613
SLATE3742 · 56 · 163 · 54 · 17 · 6 · 215 · 215768
CRATE2650 · 123 · 111 · 240 · 240 · 17 · 62 · 49892
TRACE1748 · 123 · 111 · 240 · 240 · 54 · 62 · 49927
CRANE2654 · 132 · 120 · 257 · 257 · 132 · 90 · 171059
A 12-guess solver line for Octordle #23

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, 613 candidates left in all.

  2. ANGST for board 6 (10 candidates left).

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

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

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

  6. FICUS for board 1 (2 candidates left).

  7. MUSIC for board 1 (only one candidate left) — solves board 1.

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

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

  10. ROWDY for board 7 (2 candidates left).

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

  12. HASTY for board 6 (3 candidates left) — solves board 6.

Boards solved at guess 7, 4, 8, 3, 9, 12, 11, 5.

Octordle #23 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: MUSIC · Board 2: LOYAL · Board 3: OFFER · Board 4: SOGGY · Board 5: SKULK · Board 6: HASTY · Board 7: WORDY · Board 8: BRINY

MUSIC LOYAL OFFER SOGGY SKULK HASTY WORDY BRINY

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