Octo Wordle

Eight five-letter words, one keyboard. Every guess lands on all eight boards. Classic gives you 13 tries, Chill 15, Extreme 12 and Sequence 14, daily or unlimited.

This is the eight-board Wordle: the same guess is scored on eight hidden words at once, so one word can be green on one board and grey on the next. Everyone gets the same words in today's puzzle, and Unlimited hands you a fresh set whenever you want more. If eight feels like a lot, Quad Wordle has four boards and a gentler budget.

How to play

1. Type a five-letter word from the word list and press Enter. It is scored on every board that is still open. The line above the keyboard counts your guesses left.
2. Green: right letter, right spot. Yellow: in the word, wrong spot. Grey: not in that word. Repeated letters work like Wordle: greens first, then yellows only for as many copies as the answer has. Each key is split into eight stripes, one per board in the same order as the grid, and a stripe only ever gets better (grey, then yellow, then green).
3. A board stops taking guesses on the row you solve it: it dims and its header shows a check and the guess number. You win only when all eight are solved within your guesses; run out and every answer is shown. Eight is the minimum, so Classic leaves you five spare guesses.
4. Pick a mode: Classic gives 13 guesses. Chill gives 15 with the same everyday answer words. Extreme gives 12 and draws answers from the full dictionary, so they may be rare. Sequence gives 14. Every guess is scored on all eight boards, but you only see the first unsolved one; solve it and the next board opens with all your earlier guesses already scored on it.
5. Stuck? Hint shows one correct letter on the first unsolved board, as a faint green letter in your current row. You get 4 per game and each one costs 100 points.
6. Daily counts toward your day streak; hints you use are saved with it. Unlimited gives a new puzzle each time; the link in the address bar reopens that exact puzzle. The archive under the keyboard lists the last 30 daily puzzles.

Scoring

Every solved board is worth 250 points, so a full set is 2,000. If you win, each guess you did not need adds 50. Each hint takes off 100, and the score never drops below 0. Stars: three for a win with at least 3 guesses to spare and no hints, two for a win with at most one hint, one for any other win, none for a loss.

Example: all eight boards in 10 of 13 Classic guesses with no hints is 8 × 250 + 3 × 50 = 2,150 points and three stars.

Tips

• Open with three guesses that cover fifteen different letters (CRANE, SPILT, DOUGH) before trying to solve anything. Every board benefits.
• Only aim at a board when its answer is almost certain. A wasted guess costs you on all eight boards at once.
• On a phone the boards stack two across; scroll to check the lower rows, the keyboard stays at the bottom.