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Quordle #19 (October 21, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The four words from Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Quordle #19 was the set of 4 words for Wednesday, October 21, 2026. E (3 boards), G (2 boards), O (2 boards) and U (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. LIEGE and GOUGE repeat a letter, the kind of word that hides from a one-letter-per-slot habit. Of five common openers, SLATE leaves the smallest total field here: 188 possible answers across the 4 boards after one guess, against 353 for CRANE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 8 guesses (9 allowed).

Quordle #19 in numbers

Boards4
Letters shared by two or more answers4
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer3 · 3 · 2 · 2
Best of five openersSLATE: 3 green, 4 yellow, 188 candidates left
Solver line8 guesses of 9

Which opener works best on Quordle #19?

For each opener: greens and yellows it would earn across the 4 boards, and how many answers would still fit each board afterwards (smaller is better).

OpenerGreenYellowCandidates left per boardTotal
SLATE3420 · 106 · 47 · 15188
STARE4386 · 86 · 12 · 14198
TRACE33103 · 103 · 17 · 58281
CRATE33103 · 103 · 17 · 59282
CRANE32101 · 101 · 24 · 127353
An 8-guess solver line for Quordle #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 1–2 top, 3–4 bottom.

  1. SLATE: opener, 188 candidates left in all.

  2. BESET for board 4 (15 candidates left).

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

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

  5. ONSET for board 4 (3 candidates left).

  6. OVARY for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

  7. UPSET for board 4 (only one candidate left) — solves board 4.

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

Boards solved at guess 4, 8, 6, 7.

Quordle #19 answers

Show the four words

Board 1: LIEGE · Board 2: GOUGE · Board 3: OVARY · Board 4: UPSET

LIEGE GOUGE OVARY UPSET

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