Think Wordle is easy? Put your word gaming skills to the test with Octordle and choose the correct 5-letter words to fill in all eight grids in thirteen tries. Octordle is a daily word game for serious word game fans looking to elevate their strategies. Think you can solve one grid? See if you can solve eight!
Octordle is similar to Wordle; you still have to solve 5-letter words, but instead of one, you have to solve eight. If you're familiar with the Wordle rules, Octordle is the level-up; think of it as Wordle's difficult cousin. It's a more difficult game that requires an empirical strategy, and though it's currently not affiliated with Wordle in any way, the grid is similar but eight times bigger - it’s all in the name!
In a daily Octordle game, you have to solve eight different five-letter words with the correct letters in 13 tries; serious game players try to solve it as quickly as possible. So, how do you play Octordle?
Playing the Octordle game requires serious muscle flexing, brain power, and a lot of observation. Its advantage is in an empirical approach. It's way more than solving eight different puzzles with common letters; it requires game players to watch carefully and use their thirteen guesses to enter letters based on experience and observation.
When you're solving eight 5-letter puzzles, it's important to start with a bang, there are eight to solve, so the likelihood of common letters and vowels coming up is high. It's also highly likely that uncommon letters like G, J, W, V, and Y will be in several words. The rarest letters Q, K, or Z might be in a few. So, based on this logic, focus on good starting words containing a combination of one common vowel, a few common consonants, and a few uncommon letters. We recommend starting with something other than the rarest letters, like Q. Instead, start with words like MOUND, PITHY, PROUD, and SWUNG; these could give you some great hints for the next play.
If you want to solve Octordle before the thirteen tries are up, you've got to maximize your moves and guesses. This requires good starting words but also an empirical approach. Playing Octordle requires diligent observational skills because you're entering your guesses over eight grids, so keep watch, and remember the grids.
Octordle is a great brain teaser activity, and for committed game players, Octordle game modes let you practice and hone your skills. Here are a few different ways you can play.
The original Octordle game, a new game, is released daily.
Octordle Sequence mode is similar to the original Octordle game but with a few changes. Only one unsolved word is visible, so once you've solved one, the next game board is unlocked. Because of the increased difficulty, you've got 15 guesses.
Fed up with repeating the same starting letters game after game? Have the computer choose starter words for you. You've got 9 guesses in this game mode.
Want to play with a theme? Octordle challenge games have a set theme, where all 8 5-letter words are themed. You've got themed puzzles about colors, countries, U.S. cities, etc. New challenges are added regularly.
Game players know that sometimes, one game isn't enough. In this game mode, you can play the free original, free sequence, and free rescue puzzle as many times as you want.
For a fee, word game fans can unlock exclusive features, play without ADs, backup, and more.
At the end of each Octordle game, the number of guesses per word is shown with emojis. Say you got a 7️⃣; that game board took 7 guesses to find the correct word. A 🔟 means you found the right word in 10 guesses. Octordle focuses on the efficiency of guesses and the overall performance in the game. Lower scores are better in the Daily and Sequence games, and higher scores in Rescue game mode.
The challenge is to get through the game with no clocks; clocks show guesses higher than 10.
Here’s an example of a Daily Octordle word answer.
4️⃣5️⃣ SCION - STONY
8️⃣🕐 TACKY - BEGUN
🟥🕛 GRUFF - BLADE
🕚9️⃣ AGORA - SCOWL
Score: 76
4️⃣- 4 points
5️⃣- 5 points
8️⃣- 8 points
🕐13 points
🟥- Unanswered worth 14 points
🕛- 12 points
🕚- 11 points
9️⃣- 9 points
= 76 points.
Whether you’re out and about or at home on a desktop, there are tons of ways to get your Octordle fix.
Browser - https://octordle.com/
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/
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