How to read all eight boards
Every guess in Octordle produces eight rows of colors at once. Reading them in a consistent order saves time and stops you from missing an easy solve.
The same letter, eight different stories
This is a constructed example. Suppose you open with RAISE and eight different answers each react in their own way. On one board R might be green, on another yellow, on a third gray — all from the same typed guess.
There is no single “result” for a letter. Each board has to be read on its own.
A simple reading order
- Solved and nearly solved boards first. A board with three or four greens may only have one or two possible words. Count them before doing anything else.
- Then the boards with yellows. Yellow tiles tell you a letter is present and where it is not.
- Quiet boards last. A board with mostly gray needs new letters. That is where your next guess should earn its keep.
- Pick a guess that serves several boards. The best next word often tests letters that matter on two or three boards, even if it cannot be the answer on any of them.
Avoid double work
Keep a mental note of which letters are dead on which board, not globally. A letter that is useless on seven boards can still be essential on the eighth.
If tracking eight boards in your head is too much, the Octordle solver keeps the colors for each board separately and shows what is still possible on each one.