Quordle Today – Hints and Answers for Friday, May 26 (Game #487)

Quordle needs to be approached differently from Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll have a better chance if you think strategically.

This is also the case in Wordle, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.

There are two main things to remember.

1. Use lots of opening words

First, you don’t just need an opening word, but almost certainly two or three opening words.

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

For example, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, including all five vowels, Y, and the nine most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C, and H). . There are lots of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of an H, maybe – but something like this should do it.

If all goes well, this should give you a good idea of ​​one or sometimes two answers. If not, good luck!

2. Downsize

Second, if you’re faced with a word that can easily be answered with one of several options — for example -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH — you’re sure Guess the one word from the form that will narrow down those options.

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

In the above scenario, CLAMP would be a good guess, as it can point to four of the seven words at once.