Quordle today – tips and answers for Monday 4th September (game #588)

• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 5*.

• The total number of vowels in today’s Quordle responses is 7.

• The number of Quordle responses containing a repeated letter today is 2.

• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 13.

• YES. One of Q, Z, X or J appears in today’s Quordle answers.

• The number of today’s Quordle answer starting with the same letter is 3.

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• R

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• F

While Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word every day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And instead of completing them one after another, you do them simultaneously. You have nine chances, instead of Wordle’s six, but otherwise the rules are very similar.

It is played online via Quordle website and you can also access it through the file Merriam-Webster siteafter the dictionary bought Quordle last year.

As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player every day, meaning you’re competing against the rest of the world. And as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight, so every day you have a new challenge.

The website also includes a practice mode, which I highly recommend using before trying the actual game! – and there are daily stats including streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements: specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of rounds, playing many times or guessing particularly difficult words.

Oh, and it’s hard. Really difficult.

1. The letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.

2. Letters in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.

3. Letters that are not present in the answer turn grey…

4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all squares of the puzzle at once, so an A might turn green in one square, yellow in another, and gray in the last two.

5. The answers are never plural.

6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two letters of the same letter, they could both turn yellow, both green, or one could be yellow and the other green.

7. Each guess must be a valid word in the Quordle dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for example.

8. You don’t have to include the correct letters on subsequent attempts, and there is no Wordle’s Hard Mode equivalent.

9. You have nine chances to find the Quordle answers.

10. You must complete the Daily Quordle before midnight in your time zone.

Quordle needs to be approached in a different way than Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine tries, you can’t blindly flip letters and expect to win – you’ll have a much better chance if you think strategically.

Of course, this is also the case in Wordle, but it is even more important in Quordle.

There are two key things to remember.

1. Use different starting words

Firstly, you won’t want just a single initial word, but almost certainly two or three initial words.

The first of these should probably be one of Wordle’s best opening words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here as well. But after that, you should select another word or maybe two that use a lot more more common consonants and that include the remaining vowels.

For example, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Collectively, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters of 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 many other options – you might want to put an M, B, F or G in place of the H, perhaps – but something like this should do.

Hopefully this will give you a good hint as to what one or sometimes two answers might be. If not, good luck!

2. Narrow things down

Second, if you’re faced with a word whose answer could easily be one of several options, such as -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH, or PATCH, you’ll want to guess a word that could narrow down the options.

In Wordle, you can instead try several in succession and hope that one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but sometimes it works. Also, it’s the only option on Hard Mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in failure: you just don’t have enough guesses.

In the above scenario, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four out of seven words in one go.