Trailblaze answers for July 17, 2026

The Friday, July 17, 2026 board had 249 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: STATUETTE
Best score found
43
Par
Cells covered
33 / 49
Longest word
statuette

Highest-scoring words on this board

Findable somewhere on the grid — not necessarily all in the same chain, since each word consumes its cells.

  • statuette 19
  • straiten 18
  • tattooed 18
  • artiest 17
  • nettles 17

The best chain we found

7 words for 43 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.statuette 19 pts

  2. 2.oleo 4 pts

  3. 3.testy 5 pts

  4. 4.ray 3 pts

  5. 5.jotted 6 pts

  6. 6.eek 3 pts

  7. 7.mot 3 pts