Quordle, Octordle & Dordle Solver,
one guess, every board.

Field guide

How the multi-board solver works.

In Dordle, Quordle and Octordle you solve two, four or eight five-letter puzzles at once, and each guess goes onto every board. Every board colors that guess on its own, so a word can be useful on one board and wasted on another. Choosing guesses well is the whole game, because you only get about seven, nine or thirteen of them.

Using the solver

Choose the number of boards. Type the word you guessed and press Add. It appears as a row on every open board, and you tap each tile until it matches the color your game showed: gray, yellow or green. The header of each board shows how many dictionary words still fit, and you can open the list. When a board is solved, press Solved on it, or turn its whole row green; later guesses are then hidden for that board. Use this guess copies the suggestion into the word box once you are ready to play it.

How the next guess is chosen

Each board keeps only the words that would have produced the colors you entered. For every dictionary word, the solver then works out what that guess would tell you on each unsolved board. If a board has n words left and the guess would split them into color-pattern groups of k words each, the board gains:

The gains of all unsolved boards are added up, and the word with the highest total is suggested. A small bonus, one bit times the chance that the word is the answer, favors words that could finish a board. Once you have no more guesses than open boards, there is no room for pure scouting, so the tool switches to the words with the best chance of winning a board right now. Boards that have exactly the same words left are scored once, which keeps even a blank eight-board start fast.

Worked example

On blank boards the best first word is the same for 2, 4 or 8 boards, because every board is identical. In this dictionary it is TARES, worth about 6.2 bits per board, so 24.9 bits on a four-board game. If a board comes back all gray, 575 words remain on it. If only the final S turns green, 539 remain. The second suggestion then depends on all four boards together, and it often looks nothing like a word you would pick for any single board, which is exactly the point.

Words your game will not accept

The list is a general English dictionary, so a suggestion can be a rare word that your game rejects. Press My game does not accept it and the tool removes that word, recalculates, and keeps it in a skipped list you can restore. The same list is used for the possible answers, so skipping a word also removes it from every board.

Tips

• Enter colors exactly as shown. One wrong tile can empty a board. The board turns red and names the first guess after which no word fits.
• Repeated letters follow the usual rule. If you guess a word with two E's and the answer has only one, one E gets a color and the other is gray: green if it sits in the right place, otherwise the first E is yellow. Copy what your game showed.
• Go solo when it is easier. For a single puzzle, the Wordle solver is simpler, with a single grid to fill in.

Disclaimer: This tool is an independent fan creation and is not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Merriam-Webster, The New York Times Company, or the makers of Octordle and Dordle. “Quordle”, “Octordle”, “Dordle” and “Wordle” are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here only to describe the type of puzzle. Words come from a general English dictionary, not from any puzzle's answer list. Provided for practice and entertainment only.