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Quordle #20 (October 22, 2026): answers, best opener and a solver line

The four words from Thursday, October 22, 2026. Play it first; the answers are folded below. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Quordle #20 was the set of 4 words for Thursday, October 22, 2026. H (3 boards), C (2 boards) and T (2 boards) appear in more than one answer, so a guess that places them earns colour on several boards at once. SCENE and CATCH 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: 280 possible answers across the 4 boards after one guess, against 528 for CRANE. A plain solver that opens with it and then always guesses the likeliest word on the tightest board finishes in 7 guesses (9 allowed).

Quordle #20 in numbers

Boards4
Letters shared by two or more answers3
Answers with a repeated letter2
Vowels per answer2 · 1 · 1 · 1
Best of five openersTRACE: 3 green, 3 yellow, 280 candidates left
Solver line7 guesses of 9

Which opener works best on Quordle #20?

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
TRACE3316 · 17 · 240 · 7280
CRATE2421 · 90 · 240 · 2353
SLATE2332 · 85 · 215 · 51383
STARE2327 · 97 · 222 · 75421
CRANE322 · 257 · 257 · 12528
A 7-guess solver line for Quordle #20

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. TRACE: opener, 280 candidates left in all.

  2. BATCH for board 4 (7 candidates left).

  3. THUMB for board 2 (only one candidate left) — solves board 2.

  4. CATCH for board 4 (5 candidates left) — solves board 4.

  5. SCENE for board 1 (3 candidates left) — solves board 1.

  6. HILLY for board 3 (5 candidates left).

  7. HOWDY for board 3 (only one candidate left) — solves board 3.

Boards solved at guess 5, 3, 7, 4.

Quordle #20 answers

Show the four words

Board 1: SCENE · Board 2: THUMB · Board 3: HOWDY · Board 4: CATCH

SCENE THUMB HOWDY CATCH

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