Trailblaze answers for October 1, 2026

The Thursday, October 1, 2026 board had 548 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: TRAITOROUS
Best score found
57
Par
36
Cells covered
37 / 49
Longest word
traitorous

Highest-scoring words on this board

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

  • traitorous 20
  • oratories 19
  • ponderous 19
  • posterior 19
  • underlies 19

The best chain we found

8 words for 57 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.traitorous 20 pts

  2. 2.ate 3 pts

  3. 3.alas 4 pts

  4. 4.oldster 17 pts

  5. 5.duo 3 pts

  6. 6.eon 3 pts

  7. 7.nah 3 pts

  8. 8.jeer 4 pts