Quordle

About Quordle

Quordle is a Wordle variant built around a simple twist: four secret words instead of one. It was released in February 2022 by Freddie Meyer, who reworked an early prototype by engineer David Mah after seeing Dordle, which does the same thing with two boards. Within a few weeks it had a million players, and in January 2023 the dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster bought it and now hosts it on its games site.

A round works like Wordle with more bookkeeping. You type a five-letter word and it is entered on all four grids. Each grid colours the letters for its own answer: green for the right letter in the right spot, yellow for a letter that is in the word but elsewhere, grey for a letter that is not there. You have nine guesses in total, so once you crack one board, the rows you spend on it are wasted for the others.

The interest comes from juggling. A guess that would be perfect for one board can teach you nothing about the other three, and late in the game you often have to choose between locking in a sure answer and probing for letters on a board that is still blank. Besides the classic daily puzzle, the site has a practice mode for unlimited games and variants such as Chill, which is more relaxed, Extreme, which uses harder words, and Sequence, where the boards open one after another.

Quordle suits Wordle players who finish their daily puzzle in three guesses and want something that takes longer and asks for more planning. If four boards feel like too much, Dordle is a gentler step up, and Octordle goes further with eight.

How to play Quordle

1. Type any five-letter word and press Enter; it is entered on all four boards.
2. Read the colours on each board: green is the right letter in the right place, yellow is in the word but in another place, grey is not in that word.
3. Use what each board tells you to choose your next guess.
4. When a board's word turns fully green it is solved and stops taking guesses.
5. Solve all four words within nine guesses to win the day's puzzle.

Tips

• Spend your first two or three guesses on words with different common letters, such as vowels plus R, S, T, L and N, to light up all four boards.
• Solve a board as soon as you are sure of it, but if two boards are close, pick a guess that tests letters for both.
• Keep track of the keyboard: each key is split into four parts showing its colour on each board.
• Leave the board with the least information for later only if you still have enough guesses to work on it.
• Watch for double letters; a grey letter on one board can still appear twice on another.

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