8 boards, 13 guesses — the marathon of parallel solving
QuadWord doubled: eight hidden words, thirteen shared guesses, every submission applied to all eight boards at once. Boards lock as they solve. The quadrant keyboard splits each key eight ways so per-board letter knowledge stays readable.
Thirteen guesses across eight words leaves an average of 1.6 rows per word after your information-gathering opening — OctoWord is won or lost in the first four rows.
Win base 1,000, one point per second under the fifteen-minute cap, and 25 points per solved board (8/8 = 200, partial credit on losses). Guess count still matters for the leaderboard and your records: it is measured as total rows used, not per-board.
Because the time cap is long, OctoWord actually pays deliberation. A patient 9-minute clear outscores a sloppy 6-minute loss with six boards solved by hundreds of points.
Commit rows one through four to a fixed coverage suite (no shared letters across the four words). Twenty distinct letters tested means nearly every board shows multiple colored tiles before you attempt a single solve.
After the opening, sort boards into "known" (solve now), "one letter away" (solve next), and "fog" (ignore). Spend zero rows on fog boards — they clarify themselves as side effects of solving the others.
At any point, compare rows remaining to unsolved boards. Nine rows for six boards is comfortable; five rows for five boards means every single guess must solve a board — switch from information mode to commitment mode the moment the ratio hits 1:1.
Solving a board on row two feels great but skips its information harvest. If your "solve" word teaches the other seven boards nothing, the cheap win can cost you the run. Prefer solving words rich in untested letters.
Every mode ships a fresh daily puzzle at your local midnight — the same words for every player worldwide, with a daily leaderboard per mode. Play today's OctoWord puzzle.