How To Play Quordle

For any newcomers joining us, here’s how to play Quordle: Just start typing in words. You have four five-letter words to guess and nine attempts to find them all. The catch is that you play all four words simultaneously.

If you get a letter in the right place for any of the four words, it will light up in green. If a word contains a letter from one of your guesses but it’s in the wrong place, it will appear in yellow. You could always check out the practice games before taking on the daily puzzle.

Here are some hints for today’s Quordle game, followed by the answers:

What Are Today’s Quordle Hints?

• Word 1 (top left) hint — to be carried slowly by a current of air or water. Also, “catch my ___,” an expression meaning “if you understand me”
• Word 2 (top right) hint — sneaked by
• Word 3 (bottom left) hint — the fundamental character, sentiment or guiding beliefs of a person or institution
• Word 4 (bottom right) hint — rot
• None of the words have a pair of repeated letters
• Today’s words start with D, C, E and D

What Are Today’s Quordle Answers?

Spoiler alert! Don’t scroll any further down the page until you’re ready to find out today’s Quordle answers.

This is your final warning!

Today’s words are...

• DRIFT
• CREPT
• ETHOS
• DECAY

That’s all there is to it for today’s Quordle clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog for hints and the solution for Saturday’s game if you need them. See you then!

If you’d like to chat about Quordle and New York Times word games such as Wordle, Connections and Strands (and to hang out with a bunch of lovely people), join us over at Discord! Also, subscribe to my newsletter, Pastimes!