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Octordle #27 (October 31, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The eight words from Saturday, October 31, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Octordle #27 was the set of 8 words for Saturday, October 31, 2026. I (5 boards), A (4 boards), E (4 boards), N (4 boards), T (4 boards) and O (3 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. LINEN and THIGH repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, TRACE leaves the smallest total field here: 302 possible answers across the 8 boards after one guess, against 497 for CRANE. 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 #27 in numbers

Boards8
Letters shared by two or more answers10
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer3 · 1 · 2 · 2 · 1 · 1 · 3 · 3
Best of five openersTRACE: 5 green, 10 yellow, 302 candidates left
Solver line11 guesses of 13

Which opener works best on Octordle #27?

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
TRACE51045 · 21 · 122 · 32 · 17 · 14 · 47 · 4302
SLATE61010 · 14 · 61 · 85 · 85 · 37 · 8 · 31331
CRATE6945 · 22 · 122 · 34 · 90 · 4 · 47 · 4368
STARE6109 · 10 · 115 · 7 · 97 · 42 · 50 · 41371
CRANE51049 · 49 · 57 · 12 · 257 · 51 · 21 · 1497
An 11-guess solver line for Octordle #27

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. TRACE: opener, 302 candidates left in all.

  2. CABLE for board 8 (4 candidates left).

  3. CACHE for board 8 (3 candidates left).

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

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

  6. INTRO for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

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

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

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

  10. CANOE for board 8 (only one candidate left) — solves board 8.

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

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

Octordle #27 answers

Show the eight words

Board 1: ASIDE · Board 2: STAMP · Board 3: LINEN · Board 4: INTRO · Board 5: THIGH · Board 6: FROTH · Board 7: ALIEN · Board 8: CANOE

ASIDE STAMP LINEN INTRO THIGH FROTH ALIEN CANOE

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