Trailblaze answers for September 8, 2026

The Tuesday, September 8, 2026 board had 203 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: CRITICAL
Best score found
42
Par
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Cells covered
32 / 49
Longest word
critical

Highest-scoring words on this board

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

  • critical 18
  • airsick 17
  • opioids 17
  • optical 17
  • tidiest 17

The best chain we found

8 words for 42 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.critical 18 pts

  2. 2.wet 3 pts

  3. 3.iced 4 pts

  4. 4.heap 4 pts

  5. 5.boa 3 pts

  6. 6.ids 3 pts

  7. 7.disk 4 pts

  8. 8.goo 3 pts