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How to play Octordle

Octordle is Wordle scaled up. In Daily Classic you have 13 guesses to find eight hidden five-letter words, and every guess you type is played on all eight boards at once.

The rules of Daily Classic

  • There are eight boards, each with its own secret five-letter word.
  • You get 13 guesses in total, not 13 per board. Each guess must be a valid five-letter word.
  • Your guess is checked separately against each board you have not solved yet.
  • A board is solved the moment you type its word exactly. After that, later guesses no longer appear on it.
  • You win by solving all eight boards within 13 guesses.

Eight words in 13 guesses leaves limited room for pure “information” turns, so strong play usually means guesses that help several boards at once.

What the colors mean

  • Green: the letter is in the answer and in this exact position.
  • Yellow: the letter is in the answer, but in a different position.
  • Gray: this copy of the letter is not needed. Usually that means the letter is not in the answer at all, but with repeated letters it can mean “no more copies” (see repeated letters).

The colors on one board say nothing about the other boards. A letter can be gray on one board and green on the next.

A worked first guess

This is a constructed example, not a real daily puzzle. Suppose one of the eight answers is PLANT and your first guess is STARE. On that board only you might see:

What you can read from this row:

  • There is an A in the middle and a T somewhere other than second position.
  • S, R, and E are out for this board.

Your next guess should use fresh letters that can help the quiet boards while checking positions on boards that already lit up.

Solving a board

In the official game you finish a board by entering its word, and the game colors every tile itself. You never mark anything by hand.

If you want help working out what is still possible, our Octordle solver lets you copy the colors from your game onto all eight boards and see which words still fit. That is a separate companion tool: the colors you enter there come from your game, not from the solver.

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