What is Octordle?
Octordle is what happens when Wordle gets ambitious. Instead of one hidden five-letter word you are chasing eight of them at the same time, and every word you type goes onto all eight boards at once. Each board colours your letters the usual way, so a single guess can be nearly useless on one board and give you a breakthrough on another. You get thirteen guesses to find all eight words, which sounds generous until you realise that every word needs its own correct guess. The fun is in juggling: choosing openers that test lots of common letters, spotting which board is closest to being solved, and cleaning up the stragglers before you run out. Octordle is part of the Britannica and Merriam-Webster family of word games, alongside Quordle. It suits players who find Wordle too quick and want a longer, busier puzzle with their morning coffee, and it rewards a good memory for letter patterns.
How to play
- Type a five-letter word. It is checked against all eight hidden words at once.
- Use the colours on each board to narrow down that board's word.
- Solve all eight words within thirteen guesses.
Quick facts
- Typical time
- 10–15 min
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Price
- Free to play.
- Account
- Not needed.
- Past puzzles
- No archive. A separate Practice mode covers extra rounds.
- On a phone
- Works in your phone's browser. Nothing to install.
- Guesses
- Thirteen, for eight words.
Tips to get better
- Spend three guesses on information. With eight boards, the opening is all about coverage. LATER, SONIC and DUMPY test fifteen different letters and usually leave a couple of boards nearly solved.
- Do the sums. Eight words need eight correct guesses, so thirteen leaves only five to explore with. After three openers you have two left. Count before you gamble.
- Take the certain boards first. After the openers, go through all eight boards and solve any that have only one possible answer. You have to spend those guesses anyway, and their letters help elsewhere.
- Check every board before each guess. It's easy to forget a board that is off screen. The classic way to lose is to discover board seven with two guesses left.
- Park the ambiguous boards. A board that could be several words, like _ATCH, should wait until other guesses have ruled letters in or out.
Who it's for
Play Octordle if you find Wordle over too quickly and enjoy keeping a lot in your head. It's a proper ten-minute sit-down rather than a quick go, and it's as much about keeping track as about vocabulary. On a small phone the scrolling gets tiring. If it sounds like too much, Quordle is the same idea at half the size.
