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Quordle today – hints and answers for Monday, October 2 (game #616)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you’ll probably need some for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #616 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle and Quordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak recently reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 10.
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 3.
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 11.
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #6 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #616) – hint #7 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• G
• F
• L
• O
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #616) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #616, are…
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Daily Sequence today (game #616) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #616, are…
Quordle answers: The past 20
- Quordle #615, Sunday 1 October: LEAST, ARRAY, BOWEL, MATEY
- Quordle #614, Saturday 30 September: MELEE, CHECK, SHONE, GLIDE
- Quordle #613, Friday 29 September: PARER, CLASP, SHARD, JERKY
- Quordle #612, Thursday 28 September: SAUCY, PEACH, SURER, STRIP
- Quordle #611, Wednesday 27 September: NOISY, CLEAT, EAGER, CARAT
- Quordle #610, Tuesday 26 September: SEDAN, CHARD, CHASM, GUSTO
- Quordle #609, Monday 25 September: LEASH, GAZER, GUILE, KNEED
- Quordle #608, Sunday 24 September: LUCKY, ANGRY, QUIET, LUCID
- Quordle #607, Saturday 23 September: HEARD, LOATH, GUEST, SIGMA
- Quordle #606, Friday 22 September: CHILI, METRO, PUREE, KIOSK
- Quordle #605, Thursday 21 September: AWARE, SHONE, SHADE, SHELF
- Quordle #604, Wednesday 20 September: TAMER, SNOUT, BLAND, SLEEP
- Quordle #603, Tuesday 19 September: WACKY, LAYER, FRUIT, MINER
- Quordle #602, Monday 18 September: SWEAR, LOWLY, STAND, UPSET
- Quordle #601, Sunday 17 September: SCRUB, DUSTY, QUOTH, UNCLE
- Quordle #600, Saturday 16 September: FLAIL, ALTAR, YACHT, HAUNT
- Quordle #599, Friday 15 September: FISHY, DRAKE, TORUS, SMOTE
- Quordle #598, Thursday 14 September: CHEST, RIVER, THERE, EMCEE
- Quordle #597, Wednesday 13 September: GUESS, MICRO, DROOP, ELATE
- Quordle #596, Tuesday 12 September: CYNIC, GRUEL, CACTI, TOWER
Quordle FAQs: Everything you need to know
What is Quordle?
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
It’s played online via the Quordle website and you can also get to it via the Merriam-Webster site, after the dictionary purchased Quordle last year.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
Maldives President Nears Defeat in Vote Overshadowed by India and China
Mohamed Muizzu, the mayor of the capital city pushing for closer ties with China, was leading against the pro-India incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, initial results showed.
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Quordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, September 2 (game #586)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s good fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a new variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you’ll probably need some for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #586 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle and Quordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak recently reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 8.
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 13.
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #6 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #586) – hint #7 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• R
• F
• B
• S
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #586) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #586, are…
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Daily Sequence today (game #586) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #586, are…
Quordle answers: The past 20
- Quordle #585, Friday 1 September: BLOCK, SULKY, VOCAL, IDEAL
- Quordle #584, Thursday 31 August: FINAL, VOICE, HATCH, TWANG
- Quordle #583, Wednesday 30 August: MOUNT, SLEET, SCAMP, SAVOY
- Quordle #582, Tuesday 29 August: BRASS, PASTE, WIDER, PIXIE
- Quordle #581, Monday 28 August: PAINT, ALLOY, FORTY, FIBER
- Quordle #580, Sunday 27 August: VOWEL, BLUNT, STOKE, SHADY
- Quordle #579, Saturday 26 August: LEASH, SMEAR, BASAL, BRIEF
- Quordle #578, Friday 25 August: CHAMP, CLACK, PIVOT, BOOTH
- Quordle #577, Thursday 24 August: TAWNY, JETTY, PESTO, PRUNE
- Quordle #576, Wednesday 23 August: DITTY, BARGE, CANON, GOLLY
- Quordle #575, Tuesday 22 August: COAST, AWOKE, CLOTH, ANNEX
- Quordle #574, Monday 21 August: FILTH, TRACE, STONY, FOLIO
- Quordle #573, Sunday 20 August: WIMPY, PLUNK, FORAY, SHAKE
- Quordle #572, Saturday 19 August: STIFF, QUOTH, MUCKY, WEDGE
- Quordle #571, Friday 18 August: EXPEL, ROGUE, PATCH, MINTY
- Quordle #570, Thursday 17 August: OLDEN, HASTY, ADULT, OLIVE
- Quordle #569, Wednesday 16 August: BOOST, QUARK, ADULT, ANGST
- Quordle #568, Tuesday 15 August: IONIC, DAUNT, BRIBE, NORTH
- Quordle #567, Monday 14 August: CARGO, PATTY, BARGE, MELON
- Quordle #566, Sunday 13 August: SAUCE, DEIGN, HARDY, FLUNG
Quordle FAQs: Everything you need to know
What is Quordle?
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
It’s played online via the Quordle website and you can also get to it via the Merriam-Webster site, after the dictionary purchased Quordle last year.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
Body Is Found in Search for Missing British Poet
The family of a British poet who disappeared last weekend from a music festival in England was in mourning after a body was found following a nearly weeklong search that drew national headlines and intense interest on social media.
The poet, Gboyega Odubanjo, 27, was last seen at the Shambala music festival in Kelmarsh, England, about 85 miles north of London, around 4 a.m. on Saturday. Mr. Odubanjo had been scheduled to perform at the festival on Sunday.
The search ended on Thursday morning, when the Northamptonshire Police said they had found a man’s body, which they did not publicly identify.
The police said that the man’s family had been informed and that there did not appear to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
In a statement shared with The New York Times by a close friend of Mr. Odubanjo’s, Tice Cin, his family remembered him warmly and said his disappearance had been “entirely out of character.”
“He is a warm and infectious personality, a contagious smile, and a heart full of kindness,” the family’s statement said. “When his sister’s twins were born, he took it upon himself to move in and support his sister and husband with their young family.”
Echoing criticism on social media of the search for Mr. Odubanjo, the family’s statement also said, “We believe that if he had received adequate care, he would still be alive.”
In a statement, the Northamptonshire Police said that, “Searching open terrain and water requires specialist skills to locate a missing person and to secure and preserve evidence. Unofficial searches carry a risk to both those searching, and to the investigation.”
The disappearance and death remain an active investigation, the police said. The organizers of the Shambala Festival, which describes itself as “anti-corporate, independent and environmentally pioneering,” said they were “devastated by this situation” but otherwise declined to comment while awaiting the coroner’s report on the cause of death.
Mr. Odubanjo, who was born and raised in London, was considered a rising star in the city’s poetry scene. He was the author of “While I Yet Live” and the prizewinning collection “Aunty Uncle Poems,” and served as the editor of bath magg, an online poetry magazine. He worked as an editor at Bad Betty Press and was studying for a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire.
His disappearance prompted an outpouring of support from Britain’s poetry community.
“Our light switch in a dark room,” Kareem Parkins-Brown, a London-based poet, said of Mr. Odubanjo. “He was the voice for the joys of London life. Our city’s Frank O’Hara.”
“In the literary world I have often felt misunderstood and eager to explain myself, but I always felt you got me,” the poet Raymond Antrobus said in a message. “So many of us who knew your brilliance and were waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.”
“He just had this air of wisdom about him,” Ms. Cin, Mr. Odubanjo’s friend, said. “He could go anywhere in the world and people would look to him for advice.”
Mr. Odubanjo had been scheduled to appear at the Barbican Centre in London this month as part of 05fest, a festival put on by the poet Inua Ellams.
But Mr. Odubanjo had big ambitions outside of his native Britain. “He wanted to tell stories across the whole world,” Ms. Cin said, but he always felt a strong connection with his home city.
As Mr. Odubanjo said in one of his poems: “london is a bit of me / london is the place for me.”
E.U. Official Accuses Russia of Using Grain as Geopolitical Tool: Ukraine Live Updates
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil has pitched his country as a peacemaker in Russia’s war with Ukraine. But he now seems to have accepted that neither side is ready to lay down arms anytime soon.
Brazil “is trying to find some way to use the word peace,” he told foreign correspondents during a breakfast on Wednesday. Later, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, he said, “For the time being, both of them are in that phase that ‘I will win, I will win, I will win.’”
Brazil — Latin America’s largest nation, which has long pursued a foreign policy of neutrality — believes it is well positioned to help bring an end to the war. Mr. Lula said that Brazilian officials have had conversations with counterparts in China, India, South Africa and Indonesia, as well as in other countries in Latin America and in Africa, about brokering peace negotiations.
He said he has made his chief foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, his “special war envoy” and dispatched him to meetings with Mr. Putin in Moscow and Mr. Zelensky in Kyiv.
And he has blocked Brazil from selling any weapons that could end up being used in the war.
But none of those efforts have yielded much progress, he said.
Still, Brazil is not giving up. Mr. Amorim, who will appear remotely at a meeting on Ukraine’s peace plan scheduled on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, said in an interview on Wednesday that his strategy is to respect both Ukraine and Russia, even if one invaded the other.
“Territorial integrity of states must be respected,’’ he said. “Security concerns, including Russia’s, also must be respected by everyone.”
Mr. Amorim said he believed that Brazil has more influence with Russia than it does with Ukraine, in part because of its place in a bloc known as BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
China, he said, has already helped tamp down Moscow’s rhetoric about nuclear weapons. He said that the United States could also play a key role in persuading Ukraine to seek peace.
Brazil’s stance that Russia’s concerns must be heard has frustrated Ukraine and its Western allies. When a planned meeting between Mr. Lula and Mr. Zelensky on the sidelines of the Group of 7 Summit in Japan in May failed to happen, the leaders blamed each other.
Mr. Lula has said that both Russia and Ukraine caused the war. And Mr. Zelensky has criticized Mr. Lula’s call for peace talks, saying the Brazil leader just wants to be “original.”
But Mr. Zelensky seemed to encourage improving relations recently when he suggested that Brazil host a summit for Latin American nations that Ukraine could attend.
Mr. Amorim, Brazil’s chief foreign policy adviser, said Brazil would welcome Mr. Zelensky for a visit — but would not host meetings for him.
“Brazil does not have to be a stage for anyone, not for Zelensky, not for Putin,” he said. “We want peace, we want the Ukrainian people to live in peace, to end the war in which they are the main victims. But for that, we also have to have credibility with the other side.”
Paulo Motoryn contributed reporting.
Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, August 3 (game #556)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s good fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a new variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you’ll probably need some for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #556 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle and Quordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak recently reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 9.
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 13.
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #6 – starting letters (1)
Do any of today’s Quordle puzzles start with the same letter?
• The number of today’s Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.
If you just want to know the answers at this stage, simply scroll down. If you’re not ready yet then here’s one more clue to make things a lot easier:
Quordle today (game #556) – hint #7 – starting letters (2)
What letters do today’s Quordle answers start with?
• B
• A
• L
• E
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
Quordle today (game #556) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle, game #556, are…
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Daily Sequence today (game #556) – the answers
The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #556, are…
Quordle answers: The past 20
- Quordle #555, Wednesday 2 August: SLUMP, FLUTE, RUMBA, REACH
- Quordle #554, Tuesday 1 August: ANNOY, TAPER, TRIAL, HOUSE
- Quordle #553, Monday 31 July: SQUAT, CHOSE, SNORT, THERE
- Quordle #552, Sunday 30 July: SHAWL, WRITE, ALONG, DEMON
- Quordle #551, Saturday 29 July: VALUE, ALONG, ALIVE, LEAST
- Quordle #550, Friday 28 July: TOTEM, BASAL, PULSE, COUCH
- Quordle #549, Thursday 27 July: EVADE, SPICE, FLOAT, ALIGN
- Quordle #548, Wednesday 26 July: INDEX, TAKER, CURVE, PEACH
- Quordle #547, Tuesday 25 July: HAIRY, ROWDY, QUARK, LIMIT
- Quordle #546, Monday 24 July: STUFF, HIPPO, LIVER, BLINK
- Quordle #545, Sunday 23 July: ENTRY, GIDDY, STAMP, VOMIT
- Quordle #544, Saturday 22 July: BEFIT, JIFFY, ARENA, TOUCH
- Quordle #543, Friday 21 July: ROUND, TEPID, LIVER, IRATE
- Quordle #542, Thursday 20 July: ENTER, TRULY, USUAL, CIVIL
- Quordle #541, Wednesday 19 July: WORST, KAYAK, HENCE, ZEBRA
- Quordle #540, Tuesday 18 July: DEBUT, HOARD, SILLY, UPPER
- Quordle #539, Monday 17 July: LUPUS, ALIVE, SALLY, ABLED
- Quordle #538, Sunday 16 July: STEAM, SALTY, SLOOP, TRUSS
- Quordle #537, Saturday 15 July: CYCLE, FALSE, FRILL, HEAVY
- Quordle #536, Friday 14 July: LIBEL, CABLE, WREAK, SCOPE
Quordle FAQs: Everything you need to know
What is Quordle?
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
It’s played online via the Quordle website and you can also get to it via the Merriam-Webster site, after the dictionary purchased Quordle last year.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
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Microsoft has a new plan to make Edge better than Chrome
Microsoft Edge is going to make an effort to help you improve the browser with a new system of badges for add-ons.
Add-ons (also referred to as extensions) are little extras that can be bolted onto the browser to deliver all kinds of functionality, but clearly the trick to making Edge better with them is choosing good add-ons, and not bloat or poor-quality efforts (or even malicious ones in a worst-case scenario).
As MS Power User (opens in new tab) reports, what the new system delivers is a badge – a visual icon, present on the product description page and elsewhere – to show that any given browser extension is of a high enough quality to deserve that label. So in short, you know you’re getting something you can trust, and that will work well.
Microsoft says that it’ll soon start to experiment with testing extension badges in the Edge Addons Store (EAS). The company notes (opens in new tab): “Edge is starting with a small-scale experiment and will begin to engage with the developer community to talk through the criterion and help them get acquainted with the badging process on EAS.”
Analysis: Another step in the right direction
Badges will also act as a carrot for devs to make better extensions, too. As Microsoft explains, developers will be encouraged to follow best practice guidelines when putting together their add-ons in order to try to qualify for a badge that’ll ensure their products are more likely to be used by Edge fans. So, it’s more likely that the extensions being made will be of a higher quality, broadly speaking, or at least that’s the hope.
There are quite a number of add-ons in the library available to Edge users at this point, so helping to sort the wheat from the chaff is definitely a good idea. According to Microsoft, there are almost 11,000 extensions for Edge at this point, and that’ll keep on growing, naturally.
It’s good to see the software giant taking more positive steps to try and improve Edge as a product. We’ve also glimpsed another innovative step in recent times, namely the integrated free VPN that’s been in testing (and has supposedly just reached release, at least for some Edge users).
All this is refreshing, primarily because advancing Edge with extra capabilities and fresh features is what we want to see, not experimenting with how more adverts can be jammed into Windows 11 to push Edge (let’s stop with that already, Microsoft, please).
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