Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, May 9 (game #836)

• May 8, 2024

This is potentially a difficult Quordle, with a couple of complications that may require you to play with some caution. To help you out, I’ve come up with a couple of hints – they’re yours to use if you need them.

SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.

Your Quordle expert

Your Quordle expert

Marc McLaren

Quordle today (game #836) – hint #1 – Vowels

* 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 #836) – hint #2 – repeated letters

Quordle today (game #836) – hint #3 – uncommon letters

Quordle today (game #836) – hint #4 – starting letters (1)

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 #836) – hint #5 – starting letters (2)

Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.

Quordle today (game #836) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle, game #836, are…

• WOUND
• IGLOO
• MEALY
• PASTY

It’s always worth having a favorite narrowing-down word or two on hand, for when patterns appear that have several solutions. BEFOG is one of my top choices, because B, F and G are all relatively common consonants and none are included in my three set start words of STARE, DOILY and PUNCH. Therefore, when I get a pattern like -OUND – which could still be BOUND, WOUND or FOUND, even with lots of other letters ruled out – I can play BEFOG and be fairly sure of solving it in two guesses, rather than possibly needing three. 

What’s more, it may gave you another yellow or green letter in another segment, which is what happened today with the G; it wasn’t needed in -OUND, but it appeared in IGLOO and helped me solve that one more easily than might otherwise have been the case.

How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.

Daily Sequence today (game #836) – the answers

The answers to today’s Quordle Daily Sequence, game #836, are…

• ADMIT
• NEEDY
• LATHE
• GUILE

Quordle answers: The past 20

• Quordle #835, Wednesday 8 May: SEVER, GLORY, RADAR, SMALL
• Quordle #834, Tuesday 7 May: DEFER, BOUGH, MISER, MAGMA
• Quordle #833, Monday 6 May: STAIN, GENIE, LEVEL, RELAY
• Quordle #832, Sunday 5 May: GAZER, TWEET, FERRY, THUMB
• Quordle #831, Saturday 4 May: WAGON, QUICK, MURAL, LIEGE
• Quordle #830, Friday 3 May: NUDGE, CLASH, KNAVE, AGENT
• Quordle #829, Thursday 2 May: TULIP, PLAZA, DAILY, SINGE
• Quordle #828, Wednesday 1 May: ROUGH, SYNOD, POSSE, PARRY
• Quordle #827, Tuesday 30 April: STASH, FUSSY, REEDY, WALTZ
• Quordle #826, Monday 29 April: STAKE, PURGE, PECAN, PLANT
• Quordle #825, Sunday 28 April: LLAMA, CUMIN, CAULK, RABID
• Quordle #824, Saturday 27 April: QUACK, BERET, SKULL, LATHE
• Quordle #823, Friday 26 April: AMONG, FLING, SOUND, AGILE
• Quordle #822, Thursday 25 April: WHILE, DODGY, MACHO, LOATH
• Quordle #821, Wednesday 24 April: STEAD, CANAL, SHEEN, UNITE
• Quordle #820, Tuesday 23 April: PLANK, SPOIL, GAVEL, STOOP
• Quordle #819, Monday 22 April: PLAID, ADAGE, DIODE, ELBOW
• Quordle #818, Sunday 21 April: CASTE, FUNKY, CAVIL, MANGA
• Quordle #817, Saturday 20 April: STAMP, FORTH, DULLY, OUNCE
• Quordle #816, Friday 19 April: WOMAN, WAXEN, FLIRT, FLOAT

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This is potentially a difficult Quordle, with a couple of complications that may require you to play with some caution. To help you out, I’ve come up with a couple of hints – they’re yours to use if you need them. SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so…