Trailblaze answers for October 4, 2026

The Sunday, October 4, 2026 board had 269 distinct words in it. Here's the best line through it, plus the finds worth knowing about.

Longest word: CATARACT
Best score found
48
Par
35
Cells covered
38 / 49
Longest word
cataract

Highest-scoring words on this board

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

  • cataract 18
  • fantasia 18
  • anoraks 17
  • cantors 17
  • cottars 17

The best chain we found

9 words for 48 points. Each word starts adjacent to where the last one ended, so the order matters as much as the words.

  1. 1.fantasia 18 pts

  2. 2.alto 4 pts

  3. 3.choc 4 pts

  4. 4.rigs 4 pts

  5. 5.chid 4 pts

  6. 6.nit 3 pts

  7. 7.anent 5 pts

  8. 8.ark 3 pts

  9. 9.rot 3 pts